Xbox · PlayStation · The first ASA log bot for console
Consoles have no tribe log API, so every raid-alert tool has been PC-only — until now. ASA Tribe Log Bot reads the Tribe Log straight off your Xbox or PlayStation's picture and posts every line to Discord: structures destroyed, tames killed, parasaur alerts, who's online. Raid pings and a voice siren wake the tribe.
Capture card · Remote Play · or a Discord stream — plus any Windows PC · Official PvP & Small Tribes
Every line of your console's Tribe Log becomes a colour-coded Discord embed with a cropped picture of the log. Serious events go to a #raid-alerts channel with an @mention.
When things pile up — "3 deaths within 5 minutes" — the bot joins a voice channel and plays a siren. Raid spam collapses into one message with a counter instead of flooding the channel.
The reader is a small Windows app. A console can't run it and exposes no data feed, so the console's picture has to reach a Windows PC. Pick whichever matches your setup — everything after that is identical.
Console HDMI → USB capture card → any Windows PC. The console keeps playing normally on your TV; the card just mirrors the picture. The choice for a 24/7 raid watcher.
Best for: Permanent, hands-off watcher for the whole tribe.
Install the Xbox app or PS Remote Play on a Windows PC and connect to your console. ARK streams into a window on the PC and the app reads that window.
Best for: Console and PC on the same home network, nothing to buy.
A tribemate Go-Lives ARK in a Discord voice channel. Any PC opens that stream, pops it out, and the app reads the log from it. The bot's PC needs no game, no console, no capture card.
Best for: Trying it now, or when the bot host isn't the console owner.
| Capture card | Remote Play | Discord stream | |
| Extra hardware | USB capture card | None | None |
| Console plays normally | Yes | Streams to PC instead of TV | Yes (someone streams) |
| Bot PC needs the game | No | No | No |
| Reliability | Rock solid | Depends on home network | Depends on stream quality |
| Best for | 24/7 watcher | No-hardware setup | Testing it out, remote host |
Rule of thumb: capture card for the tribe's permanent watcher, Discord stream to try it in five minutes. Full walkthrough: console tribe log to Discord — the guide.
It never runs ARK — it only reads text from a picture. An old laptop or a mini-PC is enough, and you can keep using it.
A USB capture card, Remote Play on that PC, or a tribemate streaming the game in Discord.
Channel → Edit → Integrations → Webhooks → New. That's the whole Discord setup; a bot is optional for the siren and slash commands.
Every plan includes all console sources, on the one PC that receives your console's picture. Your key and the installer link arrive right after purchase.
This is the one. Consoles have no tribe log API and nothing in their stores, so no console-side app can exist — but the tribe log is on the console's screen, and this bot reads screens. A small Windows app does the reading; the console's picture reaches it through a capture card, Remote Play, or a Discord stream.
No. A capture card is the most reliable option for a permanent raid watcher, but Remote Play and reading a Discord stream both work with nothing extra to buy.
Any generic USB HDMI capture card that Windows sees as a video device — the inexpensive ones streamers use are fine. If you still want the game on your TV at the same time, pick a card with HDMI pass-through.
Yes at 720p Go Live — we tested the reader against stream compression and it read every line of a translucent log panel over busy gameplay. Ask the streamer for 720p or, with Nitro, 1080p, and keep the game's HUD scale at 100%.
With a capture card, yes — the card only mirrors HDMI. With Remote Play the console streams to the PC instead of your TV. With a Discord stream, whoever streams plays as usual.
No. The PC never runs ARK; it only reads text from a picture. An old laptop or a $150 mini-PC is plenty, and it can keep being used for other things.
Yes. Official servers give players no API at all, which is exactly why the bot reads the screen instead. Official PvP, Small Tribes, PvE and unofficial servers all work the same way.
Everything a PC tribe gets: colour-coded Discord posts with a picture of the log, a separate #raid-alerts channel, @mentions when events pile up, a siren in a voice channel, who's online, screen checks and parasaur alerts.