How would you check when the player speaks in chat and what the player says?

[Archbarren (ArchDev)]

I’ve been trying to make communication with a phone and textchatservice display bubbles and everything i’ve tried hasn’t worked very well. Using TextChatService OnIncomingMessage fires every message so it’ll send in messages from players not in the call and from the system, ChatService is deprecated so I’d prefer not to use it and Player.Chatted isn’t firing when I call it from a localscript.

If anyone knows how or if you need more info, let me know! This has been racking my brain for ages.

[Edicelsuper (gud)]

Do you necessarily need the script to be a localscript? Because from my experience player.chatted works fine serverside but doesnt work locally

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
		print(message)
	end)
end)

[TheeDeathCaster]

@Edicelsuper

Because from my experience player.chatted works fine serverside but doesnt work locally

That’s new to me. Did they change how it works?

@Archbarren

If anyone knows how or if you need more info, let me know! This has been racking my brain for ages.

This would have to be handled on the server and utilizing a special “key” between players A and B.

[Archbarren (ArchDev)]

I don’t need it to be as I have two seperate scripts within my phone tool that are local and server side. Though I believe I’ll need to send stuff to a remote event to send messages?

I will check out your code later! Thank you!

[Archbarren (ArchDev)]

@TheeDeathCaster

This would have to be handled on the server and utilizing a special “key” between players A and B.

Previously I just used a fireserver with who I was sending it to in the parameters. Then an onserverevent or onclient event to check for the event firing.

[12345koip]

Player.Chatted only fires on the server. For some strange reason.

Anyway, I’d recommend using TextChatService.MessageReceived. .OnIncomingMessage is only generally for things like chat tags and the such, which need to modify the message. MessageReceived is when the message has been delivered.

it also respects this (but so does OnIncomingMessage), but you can use that to control who gets it.

[Archbarren (ArchDev)]

Ooo okay! Is there a way with this method to check who sent it? Previously with OnIncomingMessage it sent every message in the server.

[Tomi1231 (Chilly28)]

@Edicelsuper

Because from my experience player.chatted works fine serverside but doesnt work locally

@TheeDeathCaster

That’s new to me. Did they change how it works?

@12345koip

Player.Chatted only fires on the server. For some strange reason.

Player.Chatted not firing on the client for the local player with TextChatService

In this video, I demonstrate how the “/cmds” command in my game is broken with the new chat, but still works when forcing the old chat to reappear The command not working is due to Player.Chatted not firing on the client, (although it does fire on the client, but for players other than the local player). This has been an issue since the release of TextChatService. I was hoping that the LegacyChat running in the background on migrated games would prevent this issue, but this is not the cas…

[12345koip]

OnIncomingMessage provided it too - it’s a part of the TextChatMessage!

TextChatService.MessageReceived:Connect(function(msg: TextChatMessage)
    local sender = msg.TextSource and
        msg.TextSource.UserId and --included this cuz idk if that can be nil if sent by the system
        Players:GetPlayerByUserId(message.TextSource.UserId) --do not want this erroring

    if (not sender) then print("System message!") end
    --etc.
end)