TV shows not working on dedicated server

[Jinshushei]

Any idea why TV shows aren't playing on MP? The TV's are working, but they won't broadcast any shows for some reason

[Beard]

Did you miss them? They have a schedule, meaning the TVs wont play shows forever.

[Jinshushei]

Originally posted by Beard:

Did you miss them? They have a schedule, meaning the TVs wont play shows forever.

Yea, we sat around during their scheduled time and it never played, which was odd.

[Beard]

Any mods enabled?

[Jinshushei]

Originally posted by Beard:

Any mods enabled?

Yea, i have some. nothing that would "seem" to affect that directly. authentic z, britas, grapeseed, fillabusters, become desensitized, more traits

[Beard]

Might affect it, might not. Not sure, usually recommend testing it out without any mods as I havent come across TV shows outright not working yet.

[Bubaka]

We have the same issue where the shows will not run when they are supposed to on the life and living channel. I am hosting the server with the exact mods I have in my SP game and the shows workon SP but not on MP.

[Jinshushei]

Originally posted by Bubaka:

We have the same issue where the shows will not run when they are supposed to on the life and living channel. I am hosting the server with the exact mods I have in my SP game and the shows workon SP but not on MP.

yea, i could not get it to work on a dedicated server hosted from my pc. it worked originally, but after a couple server wipes, it stopped working. even redownloading the dedicated software 12 times and making new servers, it was forever broken, even on vanilla.

however, i purchased a g-portal server and suddenly they're working.

can't really understand it.

[Bubaka]

Yea I dont understand either, the workaround we found was to go raid the video store and get the tapes that have the shows, those still work

[polpot]

I had this issue and I fixed it. I did a LOT of troubleshooting and to be honest im not fully sure what the fix was but I have an idea and I will tell you . I had old map info as well as tv and radio not playing like it was past broadcast cutoff.

First.. For the map issue just have users delete their multiplayer save game folder for the server having issues. folder names will have the IP of the multiplayer server

These files can be found here : C:\Users\username\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer



I run Ubuntu server and used steamcmd to install the server with mods



I removed all mods started new world. - still had the issue

I fully un-installed and then re-installed the zomboid server - still had the issue



So some notes. And then I explain how I fixed it. When Zomboid server first starts, steamcmd will auto create this directory on my server along with default server files

Default Dir created

/home/ubuntu/Zomboid/Server

Files

servertest.ini

servertest_SandboxVars.lua

servertest_spawnpoints.lua

servertest_spawnregions.lua



What I was doing was just stopping the server after it finished starting up the first time, and then I would replace those default created files with ones of the same name with my values and restart the server. . I BELIEVE THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE RADIO ISSUE!

In order to fix the issue I simply did the following:

Before my server started for the first time I made sure the default Directory already existed

/home/ubuntu/Zomboid/Server

I put in the config files I wanted to use right off the bat, and then fired up the server and after it started PRESTO! I had TV and Radio back. SMFH

[Jinshushei]

damn man, thanks for the update. i'll try that soon. i have re-downloaded my server software like 12 times since this day and never had TV's work ever since

[polpot]

Let me know if it works man I'm curious.

[Jaeheon]

Originally posted by ჯჯℳSAჯჯ:

I had this issue and I fixed it. I did a LOT of troubleshooting and to be honest im not fully sure what the fix was but I have an idea and I will tell you . I had old map info as well as tv and radio not playing like it was past broadcast cutoff.

First.. For the map issue just have users delete their multiplayer save game folder for the server having issues. folder names will have the IP of the multiplayer server

These files can be found here : C:\Users\username\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer



I run Ubuntu server and used steamcmd to install the server with mods



I removed all mods started new world. - still had the issue

I fully un-installed and then re-installed the zomboid server - still had the issue



So some notes. And then I explain how I fixed it. When Zomboid server first starts, steamcmd will auto create this directory on my server along with default server files

Default Dir created

/home/ubuntu/Zomboid/Server

Files

servertest.ini

servertest_SandboxVars.lua

servertest_spawnpoints.lua

servertest_spawnregions.lua



What I was doing was just stopping the server after it finished starting up the first time, and then I would replace those default created files with ones of the same name with my values and restart the server. . I BELIEVE THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE RADIO ISSUE!

In order to fix the issue I simply did the following:

Before my server started for the first time I made sure the default Directory already existed

/home/ubuntu/Zomboid/Server

I put in the config files I wanted to use right off the bat, and then fired up the server and after it started PRESTO! I had TV and Radio back. SMFH

Yep, It did definitely work for me.

I had the same issue while playing multiplayer not being able to watch any TV shows.

Not only Life and living also other channels for 24 hours everyday(only bzzz sound).

So

1) I wiped all files in server and save folder

2) made server setting through in-game(so ini, lua files are added in the server folder)
2-1) quit the game

3) moved server setting files in the folder to desktop
3-1) checked if setting files were gone through in-game

4) and put them back into the folder

5) run the server

It totally worked for me.

[Lofty]

HAd a similar problem. Despite TVs being set to living, turned on, the sound up etc etc it won't actually play the show till you manually hit the TUNE IN button... every, single, damn, time. Ontop of this, if you restart your server twice it will actually replay the last show aired no matter what time of day it is... now you can view shows you missed doing this, however you can also rewatch the same one over and over, cheesing the leveling system. Very bugged atm.