SRS

SimpleRadioStandalone (DCS-SRS) is an awesome tool built by our friend CiriBob, who dedicates a lot of work and this simulated real life radio experience to DCS. Many if not every server runs an SRS server too, to let their players have a proper radio experience.

DCSServerBot integrates nicely with SRS. If you place your server.cfg in your Saved Games\DCS(..)\Config folder (and I usually rename it to SRS.cfg, just to avoid confusions in there), the bot can auto-start and -stop your SRS server alongside with your DCS server. It even monitors if SRS has crashed (that’s a waste of code… I literally never saw that crash) and start it again in such a case.

To enable SRS, support, you need to add the following parts to your scheduler.json:

{
  "configs": [
    {
      [...]
      "extensions": {
        "SRS": {
          "installation": "%ProgramFiles%\\DCS-SimpleRadio-Standalone"
        }
      }
      [...]
    },
    {
      "installation": "DCS.release_server",
      [...]
      "extensions": {
        "SRS": {
          "config": "%USERPROFILE%\\Saved Games\\DCS.release_server\\Config\\SRS.cfg",
          "host": "myfancyhost.com",    -- Optional, default is your external IP
          "port": 5004,                 -- Optional, default is what's written in server.cfg already,
          "awacs": true,                -- enable AWACS mode
          "blue_password": "blue",      -- AWACS mode, blue password
          "red_password": "red",        -- AWACS mode, red password
          "autostart": true     -- can be false to disable autostart of SRS (default = true)
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

You need one entry in the default section, pointing to your DCS-SRS installation and one in every server section, where you want to use SRS with. The next time the scheduler starts your server, it will auto-launch SRS and take care of it.

Optional parameters (will change server.cfg if necessary):

Parameter	Description
host	The hostname or IP to be used in your DCS-SRS-AutoConnectGameGUI.lua. The bot will replace it in there.
port	SRS port
awacs	AWACS mode
blue_password	AWACS mode, password blue.
red_password	AWACS mode, password red.