Installation

Extract the files#

Download the release zip, transfer it to your server, and unzip it on the server. Place the extracted folder in resources/.

Name the folder anything you like. provide 'tRadio' in fxmanifest.lua aliases the exports, so other scripts calling exports['tRadio']:someExport() find it regardless of folder name. Use your real folder name in server.cfg.

Set the five required values#

Open config/config.lua. Only these five fields must be set before first start — everything else is configured later in the web admin panel.

config/config.lua

Config = {
    serverAddress = "http://203.0.113.10:7777", -- Ships as "localhost", which only works if the
                                                -- server runs on your own PC. Set your public
                                                -- IP/domain WITH the port, or "" to auto-detect.
    serverPort    = 7777,                       -- Must be free and open (next step)
    authToken     = "<20+ random characters>",  -- Generate one at randomkeygen.com
    adminPassword = "<your admin password>",    -- Web admin panel login
    dispatchNacId = "4417",                     -- Code dispatchers type on the panel login screen
}

Setting adminPassword = "" disables password login for the admin panel. Only do that if you set up Discord authentication instead — with neither, nobody can log in, and tRadio prints a startup warning saying so.

Open the port#

The voice server needs its own TCP port, separate from FiveM and txAdmin.

Config = {
    serverPort    = 50978,
    serverAddress = "http://203.0.113.10:50978",
}

Port mistakes that account for nearly every failed install:

• Using 30120 or 40120 — already taken by FiveM and txAdmin
• Leaving serverAddress = "localhost" on a remote server, so no player can reach it
• serverPort and the port inside serverAddress not matching
• Omitting the http:// prefix or the port — the format is exactly http://IP:PORT
• Testing before the resource starts — the port only opens while tRadio is running

Start the resource#

server.cfg

ensure tLib
ensure tRadio

tLib must load before tRadio. Use your real folder name (for example ensure [tScripts]/tRadio). Restart the server.

A healthy start prints a banner with these rows:

If Status is amber saying the port is reachable on localhost but the public probe failed, the radio works for players — this host just can't reach its own public IP (hairpin NAT, CGNAT, or a reverse proxy). Confirm from portchecker.co or a phone on mobile data. If it is red, the port is genuinely closed — see Troubleshooting.

Confirm a player can transmit#

tRadio ships preconfigured, so this should work immediately.

1. Join your server as a player whose job is police, sheriff, ambulance, or fire
2. Press F6 — the radio opens
3. Press the on-radio CH button, pick DISP, and press CON
4. Hold B and speak — the display shows TX: with your name

If the radio does not open at all, the server has not granted radio access — see Give your players radios.