[HELP] Displaying someone's device server side

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#1

Hello. I am currently struggling with finding a way to display someone’s device server side. How would I go about doing so? (I am looking for it to show up on a overhead tag)

#2

Hi! You could use the UserInputService and check if:
game:GetService(“UserInputService”).TouchEnabled - mobile
game:GetService(“UserInputService”).KeyboardEnabled - PC
game:GetService(“UserInputService”).GamepadEnabled - Console

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/UserInputService/TouchEnabled
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/UserInputService/KeyboardEnabled
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/UserInputService/GamepadEnabled

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#3

Yes, but how would I go about having it show server side?

#5

Use a RemoteEvent to communicate with the server and UserInputService and GuiService to detect the player device.

LocalScript:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local GuiService = game:GetService("GuiService")
local CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

local function getPlatform()
	if GuiService:IsTenFootInterface() then
		return "Console"
	elseif UserInputService.TouchEnabled and not UserInputService.MouseEnabled and not UserInputService.KeyboardEnabled then
		if CurrentCamera.ViewportSize.Y > 600 then
			return "Tablet"
		else
			return "Mobile"
		end
	else 
		return "Computer"
	end
end

RemoteEvent:FireServer(getPlatform())

Server script:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
local Devices = {"Computer", "Mobile", "Tablet", "Console"}

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, Device)
	if table.find(Devices, Device) then
		print(Device)
	end
end)
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#6

Those properties can only be fetched from the client so you’ll need to transfer them to the server via a RemoteEvent/RemoteFunction instance.

#7

Ohhhhh yea, I am sorry :slight_smile:

#8

Thank you very much! This is very useful :slight_smile:

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