CSTV

CSTV: Activate, install and manage TV Server for your CS2 gameserver - Guide:

CSTV for CS2 Gameserver

At CKRAS, every customer can add a TV server free of charge for their CS2 server. In the next steps we will show you how to activate the server, start recording, etc.

To easily manage these functions, we recommend that you first use our CKRAS BOT. This is free and included as default with every CS2.

ACTIVATE TV

So that the TV can be activated by toogle the TV Server on/off in the Panel or your edit your Server.cfg in Advanced settings.

Change tv_enable 0 to tv_enable 1 in the [1] and restart.

With the new Default Server.cfg we have also stored additional TV settings. This will be added automatically when the server is installed again. (version November 9th)

START RECORDING

The easiest way to start the TV recording is with our CKRAS BOT, simply enter !tvrecord and the demo will start. We recommend that you use MatchZy for the demos as the demos are created automatically in match mode and you can be sure that you won't miss any recordings.

Start recording: !tvrecord alternatively !rcon tv_record (name) - with MatchZy !start or !r

TIPP: Demo is recording automatically if you use MatchZy and tv_enable 1 (or TV is activated see above) is set in your server.cfg

STOP RECORDINGS

You can simply stop the TV recording with the CKRAS BOT, simply enter !tvstop

End recording: !tvstop alternatively !rcon tv_stop - or if MatchZy is used here, the demo is ended by ending the match or restarting it with !restart.

WHERE CAN I FIND THE DEMOS?

The demos are saved in the default CS2 folder: /cs2/game/csgo, if you use MatchZy folder: /cs2/game/csgo/MatchZy

(We are currently working on a solution to allow demos to be downloaded directly from the webinterface.)

Info:

For demos to watch, this tool could be very interesting for you: https://cs-demo-manager.com/download or start manually via console and command "playdemo namedemo".

TV PORT

The TV port is always +10 to your gameserver port, you will find your port in the webinterface.

Example: Gameserver port 27050 is your CSTV port: 27060 (+10)

Your current port is always displayed when you start a !TVRECORD (demo). (CKRAS BOT)

CVAR TV Commands

tv_allow_camera_man                      : 1        : , "sv"           : Auto director allows spectators to become camera man
tv_allow_static_shots                    : 1        : , "sv"           : Auto director uses fixed level cameras for shots
tv_autorecord                            : 0        :                  : Automatically records all games as GOTV demos.
tv_autoretry                             : 1        :                  : Relay proxies retry connection after network timeout
tv_chatgroupsize                         : 0        :                  : Set the default chat group size
tv_chattimelimit                         : 8        :                  : Limits spectators to chat only every n seconds
tv_clients                               : cmd      :                  : Shows list of connected GOTV clients.
tv_debug                                 : 0        :                  : GOTV debug info.
tv_delay                                 : 30       : , "sv"           : GOTV broadcast delay in seconds
tv_delaymapchange                        : 0        : , "sv"           : Delays map change until broadcast is complete
tv_deltacache                            : 2        :                  : Enable delta entity bit stream cache
tv_dispatchmode                          : 1        :                  : Dispatch clients to relay proxies: 0=never, 1=if appropriate, 2=always
tv_enable                                : 0        : , "nf"           : Activates GOTV on server.
tv_maxclients                            : 128      :                  : Maximum client number on GOTV server.
tv_maxrate                               : 20000    :                  : Max GOTV spectator bandwidth rate allowed, 0 == unlimited
tv_msg                                   : cmd      :                  : Send a screen message to all clients.
tv_name                                  : 0        :                  : GOTV host name
tv_overridemaster                        : 0        :                  : Overrides the GOTV master root address.
tv_port                                  : 27020    :                  : Host SourceTV port
tv_record                                : cmd      :                  : Starts GOTV demo recording.
tv_relay                                 : cmd      :                  : Connect to GOTV server and relay broadcast.
tv_relaypassword                         : 0        : , "nf", "prot", "norecord" : GOTV password for relay proxies
tv_relayvoice                            : 1        :                  : Relay voice data: 0=off, 1=on
tv_retry                                 : cmd      :                  : Reconnects the GOTV relay proxy.
tv_snapshotrate                          : 16       :                  : Snapshots broadcasted per second
tv_status                                : cmd      :                  : Show GOTV server status.
tv_stop                                  : cmd      :                  : Stops the GOTV broadcast.
tv_stoprecord                            : cmd      :                  : Stops GOTV demo recording.
tv_timeout                               : 30       :                  : GOTV connection timeout in seconds.
tv_title                                 : 0        :                  : Set title for GOTV spectator UI
tv_transmitall                           : 1        : , "rep"          : Transmit all entities (not only director view)

Storage period

CS2 Demos are stored on the server for 9 days and then irrevocably deleted.

TV Server crash?

Add these commands to your Server.cfg and !report BUG

sv_hibernate_when_empty 0

sv_hibernate_postgame_delay 5

tv_delay 0

CHECK:

https://github.com/Source2ZE/GOTVCrashFix

https://github.com/K4ryuu/CS2-GOTV-Discord

TV Server

CSTV is available free of charge for every CS2 gameserver

Get your own CS2 Server

Video

Watch Video (How-To) use CSTV

https://youtu.be/0os5yLVobDg