Bedrock Server Manager

An automated management tool for a bedrock server. It will handle updating, shutting down, making backups, handling a dynamic dns, and even connecting players on a console to the server.

How it Works

After setup, the program determines which mode to run based on configuration and timing:

• NORMAL - Standard operating mode that updates the DNS and then updates the server if needed and lastly starts the server with automatic shutdown after inactivity
• DRIVE_BACKUP - Initiates backup to online drive using the latest symlink via Rclone
• INVALID - Triggered when server starts outside configured valid hours
• CONFIGURATION - First-time setup mode when no config.yaml exists

Prerequisites

Note: This program has been tested exclusively on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the recommended platform. For drive backup functionality, Rclone must be configured separately (tutorial below).

Installation

Initial Setup

Firstly, place the script in the desired location, then just run the following commands in that folder

chmod +x bedrock-manager
./bedrock-manager

The setup script will guide you through the configuration process.

Running the Server

./{location}/bedrock-manager

or after adding the alias

bsm

Turning off auto shutdown

If you need to work on the server without being disturbed by the automatic shutdown you will need to create the no shutdown flag, like this:

cd Bedrock-server-manager
touch no_shutdown.flag

To make it shutdown again, you'll need to remove the file again:

cd Bedrock-server-manager
rm no_shutdown.flag

Features

• Home Assistant Integration - Manage auto shutdown via a Home Assistant switch
• Backup Management - Create multiple backups, two to a storage device and one to a cloud service using Rclone
• Intelligent Scheduling - Cloud backups can be scheduled in the night to make shutdown faster
• Dynamic DNS - DynuDNS integration to make managing a url easy

Extra tutorials

To automatically start this program on boot, follow this tutorial.

To configure Rclone follow one of these tutorials:

• for Google Drive
• for Onedrive

Acknowledgments

This project integrates the following open-source tools:

• Broadcaster (GPL-3.0 License) - Console bridge functionality
• Minecraft-Bedrock-Server-Updater (MIT License) - Server update automation

Development Notes

AI assistance was utilized for specific components: load_config.py and formatting of the README.md.