sd-phone Link

sd-computers is complete on its own. If sd-phone v1.0.7 or newer is running too, a computer becomes another screen for the character's phone. Nothing needs setting up: it is detected live, so start or stop sd-phone at any time and the next computer opened follows.

	With sd-phone	Without
Mail	The phone's mail: the same @lifeinvader.com accounts, inbox (plus Spam), attachments, phone notifications and badges	The built-in @lsmail.com Mail
Messages	New app: the phone's text threads. Read, reply, start a thread to a number or contact; incoming texts toast on the desktop	Not installed
Notes	New app: the phone's notes. Edit the text, view their photos and sketches	Not installed
Contacts	New app: the phone's address book. Add and remove contacts, and message one straight from it	Not installed
Files	Also lists the phone's documents	The character's own documents only
Photos	Also shows the phone's gallery, to look at and to put into a document	The character's own pictures only
Bank	Takes its statement from the phone's banking history	The banking resource's statement, when it keeps one
Phone Link	New app: links the phone to the machine with a code	Not installed
Browser	The phone's public apps as live sites (see Browser Sites)	Only the pages written in the config

Linking a Phone

Messages, Notes, Contacts, the phone's gallery in Photos and the phone's documents in Files are not on a computer until the character has linked their phone to that machine:

1. They open Phone Link and send a code to their phone. It arrives as a notification, so they need the phone on them.
2. They type the six digits in. The phone's apps appear on the desktop straight away.
3. They stay for that character on that machine until they press Unlink.

Every machine is linked on its own: one public PC being linked says nothing about the next. A code works for LinkCodeMinutes (5), five wrong tries use it up, and a new one can be sent every 30 seconds. Mail and the Bank statement do not wait for the link.

RequireLink = false drops the code and the app: the phone's apps are simply there.

Setup

• sd-phone's link file server/compat/computers.lua ships with sd-phone v1.0.7 and newer and is loaded by its fxmanifest. An older sd-phone has no link file, and is treated as "not installed" (one console warning): update it from its latest release.
• It runs the phone's own handlers, so a text sent from a desk validates, notifies and threads exactly like one typed on the phone.
• On sd-phone's side, set sd_phone_computerlink "sd-computers" lists the resources allowed to drive the link (sd-computers only, by default; "off" disables it).

Settings

configs/shared/phone.lua has Enabled ('auto' or false), a switch for each of Mail, Messages, Notes, Contacts, Files, Photos and Bank, RequireLink, LinkCodeMinutes and RequirePhone. See Configuration > sd-phone Link.

• RequirePhone (on by default): the phone's apps, gallery and documents only for players carrying a phone. With RequireLink, it is whether a machine that is already linked still needs the phone nearby.
• Per computer: phone = false in computers.lua keeps the phone's apps, its gallery and documents, and Phone Link off that machine (a police terminal, say). Mail follows the server-wide switch, so nobody sees two different inboxes.
• Exports: SendMail, MailAddressExists and GetMailAddresses follow the switch too: while linked they work on the phone's mailboxes, the ones players actually read.