[Icecast] CONNECTION STATS

[Milton Huang]

That is really cool. Are other parameters passed like IP address or
user-agent? Hearing about this makes me want to create a script to track
all current users, instead of retrospectively figuring out their connection
and disconnection through the access/error logs.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 5:24 AM Chip <chiapas at aktivix.org> wrote:

> Under your mountpoint settings you can state a program that is run when
> the source is started/stopped.
>
> It is passed a parameter which is the name of the mountpoint that is
> starting. The processing of the stream does not wait for the script to end.
>
> <mount>
>     <mount-name>/example-complex.ogg</mount-name>
>     <username>othersource</username>
>     <password>hackmemore</password>
>     <max-listeners>1000</max-listeners>
>     <fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
>     <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>     <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
>     <public>1</public>
>     <bitrate>64</bitrate>
>     <on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/source-start</on-connect>
>     <on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/source-end</on-disconnect>
> </mount>
>
> The /home/icecast/bin/source-start file could be:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/echo "Stream - Start: " $(date) >> var/log/encoder.log
>
> And the /home/icecast/bin/source-stop file could be:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/echo "Stream - Stop : " $(date) >> var/log/encoder.log
>
> Use appropriate pathnames for your set up.
>
> And then you might end up with an encoder.log file that looks a little
> like this:
>
> Stream -  Stop :  Wed Dec 1 10:20:49 GMT 2021
> Stream  - Start:  Wed Dec 1 10:21:43 GMT 2021
> Stream  - Stop :  Thu Dec 23 04:59:13 GMT 2021
> Stream  - Start:  Thu Dec 23 04:59:21 GMT 2021
> Stream  - Stop :  Fri Feb 4 06:28:39 GMT 2022
> Stream  - Start:  Fri Feb 4 06:28:48 GMT 2022
>
> That will show you when an encoder has connected/disconnected.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Chip Scooter
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 12:29, Richard Bartholomew <rlbart53 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way, please, of being able to see historical connection
>> details in V2.4.4? For example, I wish to be able to see when a presenter
>> disconnected from the server and the following one connected in order to be
>> able to troubleshoot a problem. Since the incident, there have been
>> subsequent connections and, so, the admin page doesn't show the info I'm
>> after as it shows the current status.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've had a look through the access.log file but this doesn't seem to
>> detail when a streaming connection is made or dropped. The software being
>> used for streaming is Station Playlist and I can see lots of entries for
>> this but it all seems to be related to getting listener stats!
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe I'm not interpreting the access.log correctly but if anyone can
>> shed any light upon what I'm trying to do, I'd really appreciate it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Richard Bartholomew
>>
>>
>>
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