Python Half-Life Bridge

• HLBridge is a bot that forwards player messages from Telegram to the Half-life server and vice versa.

Building a Half-Life server and setting it up

First you need to build hl.so or hl.dll, depending on your platform, from source hlsdk-portable branch hlbridge

After building hl.so or hl.dll, move it to valve/dlls and replace the files.

After that you need to edit server.cfg and add commands.

Attention, specify a different argument in connectionless_args and rcon_password, do not write the same as in the example.

Example:

allow_connectionless 1
connectionless_args "chatsendmsg"
logaddress 127.0.0.1 27000
rcon_password YOUR_PASSWORD

At this stage we have finished setting up the Half-Life Server, you can start the server.

Installation and configuration of Telegram bot

Install the required libraries in requirements.txt

Also create a bot via @BotFather

Create Telegram api id and hash, you can find out how to do this on the Internet.

Configure config.env

Example:

API_ID = your_api_id
API_HASH = your_api_hash
BOT_TOKEN = your_bot_token
OWNER = your_user_id
CHAT_ID = your_chat_ID_from_where_messages_will_be_sent

# Your game logaddress port
LOG_PORT = 27000

# Your game server ip
SERVER_IP =

# Your game server port
SERVER_PORT = 27015

RCON_PASSWD = your_game_rcon_password

# Your game connectionless_args
CONNECTIONLESS_ARGS = chatsendmsg

Running a bot

Example:

python3 hlbridge.py

Attention, if you use Xash3D FWGS 0.19.x or Goldsrc you need to add the --oldengine parameter

Example:

python3 hlbridge.py --oldengine