We’ve just published 4 new API functions:
These functions give your bot a complete control over the sim. Handle with care!
We’ve also renamed the “simrestart” function to sim_restart for a consistency (however, the old name still working so your scripts won’t break).
Dear SmartBots Customers,
On May 11th our provider will be running the data center upgrades and the whole cluster of SmartBots servers will become unavailable for 1-3 hours between 5AM and 5PM GMT (5:00 to 17:00 GMT). We will settle all bots to the temporary servers to keep all of them online. However, the web interface will be offline, and you won’t be able to use HUDs and other in-world devices.
To summarize:
Contact our support in case you get any questions!
We will stay online during the whole migration period.
We are starting to publish the sim/region-related set of HTTP API functions. These functions allow restarting regions, returning objects, ejecting/banning residents.
The first function which is available already is simrestart. The function allows initiating the region restart (and canceling the procedure, too).
P.S. These API functions does not require a Sim Governor addon-module.
P.P.S. We’ve added a shorthand LSL function to call SmartBots API. While API is easily accessible in a raw way, using a function may be extremely handy.
Today we were fighting a network issue which caused some bots (actually, about 10% of our hosted bots) to login and logout periodically.
The problem started with some bots getting frozen: they were not responding to the watchdog service commands (this is a SmartBots internal service which pokes bots periodically to restart those which lost a connection to the reality). Thus, bots began to restart.
However, the bots just restarted were still unavailable: they were connecting but then frozen again. Our emergency team got a signal that something is wrong: the number of crazy bots has increased to several percents. Even during a SL rolling restarts, this amount never exceeds 2-3% of bots total.