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Linking your game session

Pair your game device to your CAD account, approve the tablet once, go on duty, and stream your position so dispatch can see where you are.

If your community runs the PlateNet resource on its game server, you can link your game session to your CAD unit. Dispatch then sees where you are, and you can open a CAD tablet in game.

Linking is optional. Everything in the CAD works without it.

The community owner connects the game server first - see connect your game server.

Pairing

Pairing binds the game device to your PlateNet account. You do it once, ever, and it holds in every community you belong to.

  1. In game, open the tablet (/platenet, or F6 by default). On a device PlateNet has never seen, a PN-.....-..... code appears. It is valid for five minutes.
  2. In your browser, open platenet.app/device and sign in.
  3. Enter the code. Check the preview - it names the community, callsign, player, and game server the code came from.
  4. Approve. The tablet connects on its own within seconds.

The device stays paired to the account that approved it. UNPAIR at platenet.app/device releases it.

Going on duty

Duty is worked from inside the tablet - it is the same CAD you use in a browser. Go 10-8 there and position reporting starts; go off duty and it stops.

Position is reported only while you are on duty.

What dispatch sees

Not a map. Your whereabouts appears on the dispatch board as a line of text under your unit on the roster:

VESPUCCI BLVD / PROSPERITY ST · NE · 48 MPH · 12S AGO

The street you are on, the direction you are travelling, your speed, and how old the report is. Smart dispatch also uses your position to work out which units are closest to a call - see automatic assignment.

If you are parked, reporting pauses until you move again. An older timestamp while stationary is normal.

If you leave the game

Closing the game, crashing, or disconnecting detaches you from your calls and sets you off duty. It does not close the call. The call keeps its case number, its timeline and any other units on it, and a note is added recording that you detached. A dispatcher decides what happens to it.

Your position is removed when your session ends.

The in-game tablet

/platenet (or your community's key, F6 by default) opens the CAD in game - the same CAD you use in a browser. The first time the tablet opens on a computer, approve the code it shows at platenet.app/device. After that one tap, the tablet signs straight in. Work your calls, run queries, change status, write reports; closing and reopening the tablet keeps your place. Unpairing the device signs every tablet out.

If something is wrong

It saysDo
A PN-.....-..... codeApprove it at platenet.app/device from the account that owns this device.
That code is not validIt expired, or it was already used. Close and reopen the tablet for a fresh one.
This tablet is already paired.The device belongs to another account. Have that account unpair it at platenet.app/device.
The CAD is not reachable. Try again in a few seconds.Wait a few seconds and open the tablet again.
Position is not updatingCheck you are on duty. Off-duty units do not report.

Related pages

  • Connect your game serverGenerate a game server key, add it to server.cfg, set your community slug, and bring the in-game tablet online.
  • Unit statusWhat each entry in the STATUS dropdown means and which one makes you eligible for assignment.
  • Patrol CADThe three panel patrol screen, the toolbar, the banner that follows you onto other pages, and what the unit roster shows.
  • Self dispatchUnits can create and attach their own calls when no dispatcher is active. The form, the banner shown when it is unavailable, and when it returns.
  • Assigning and detaching unitsAssign a unit to a call by hand, set the primary unit and detach somebody from a call.
  • Working a call as a unitAttaching to a call, marking en route and on scene, adding call notes, detaching, and the disposition prompt when you are the last unit.

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