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A lightweight backup signal inventory item for FiveM / ESX. When a player uses it, every online member of their job sees a two-phase on-screen countdown — first contact, then backup timer. For gang/family backup mechanics, deal-gone-wrong signals, or faction-wide alert loops.

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Features

  • Two-phase countdown — configurable First Contact (short) → Backup (long)
  • On-screen rendered timer — no NUI, zero resmon cost
  • Per-player hotkey cooldown (spam protection) + per-job cooldown
  • Auto-excluded law-enforcement — pattern matching on job names (ambulance, police, doj, lssd)
  • Stops on death via esx:onPlayerDeath — no ghost timers
  • Hotkey + usable item + command — all three input paths supported
  • en/de localization with real umlauts

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Requirements

Required

es_extended, ox_lib

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Configuration

config.lua
Config.ItemName               = 'caller_item'
Config.FirstContactSeconds    = 10
Config.BackupSeconds          = 300
Config.PlayerHotkeyCooldownMs = 60000
Config.JobCooldownSeconds     = 360
Config.ExcludedJobPatterns    = { 'ambulance', 'police', 'doj', 'lssd' }
Config.AllowUnemployed        = false
Text rendering parameters (font, scale, color, position) are exposed in Config.Text. Fans out with batched Wait(100) every 50 players for 800-player scale.

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Hooks

See Hooks reference / Caller Item. Key hooks: Hooks.CanUseItem(source, xPlayer), Hooks.OnServerNotify, Hooks.OnClientNotify.

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Resource info

Code accessible: config.lua, hooks.lua, locales/*. Approximately 350 lines of Lua. English + German.