Remote RLBot

Automatically starting bots

RLBot can't automatically start bots or scripts on remote machines. You will need to start them manually, using custom software. For this process to work as intended, you should still have auto_start_bots set to true in RLBot because you the bots will be started automatically, just not by RLBot itself. For each player and script in the match, ensure run_command = "". This will ensure RLBot still waits for all processes to connect. You can also use run_command to run your custom software, which you can then use to start your bots or scripts on the remote machine.

RLBot, by default, listens for TCP connections on 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) on port 23233. This port can be changed by launching RLBot and specifying a different port for the first argument. For example, to have RLBot listen on port 12345 instead, you would run RLBotServer.exe 12345.

This means that extenal processes can connect to RLBot from other machines on the same network by specifying the IP address of the machine running RLBot and the port number RLBot is listening on.

Bots and scripts using RLBot-standard compliant interfaces will read the environment variables RLBOT_SERVER_IP and RLBOT_SERVER_PORT, which default to 127.0.0.1 and 23233 respectively. You can override these environment variables to point to a different machine running RLBot. They will also expect the environment variable RLBOT_AGENT_ID to be set, which can be found by reading the agent_id field in [settings] header of the corresponding config toml file.