The player's name is not included in the MCI packet, it's in the NPL packet that's sent when a new player joins the race. You need to keep your own list of players connected to the host in order to perform the lookup.
Here is a (very heavily commented) example that keeps track of all the connections and players on a host, and prints out the player's name whenever a MCI packet is received.
import pyinsim
# Store connections and players in dictionaries with their
# UCIDs and PLIDs as the keys.
connections = {}
players = {}
# Called whenever a host is joined.
def insim_multi(insim, ism):
# Request all connection packets are sent.
insim.send(pyinsim.ISP_TINY, ReqI=1, SubT=pyinsim.TINY_NCN)
# Request all player packets are sent.
insim.send(pyinsim.ISP_TINY, ReqI=1, SubT=pyinsim.TINY_NPL)
# Called when a connection joins the host.
def new_connection(insim, ncn):
# Add to connections dict.
connections[ncn.UCID] = ncn
# Called when a connection leaves the host.
def connection_leave(insim, cnl):
# Delete connection from dict.
del connections[cnl.UCID]
# Called when a player joins the race
def new_player(insim, npl):
# Add to players dict.
players[npl.PLID] = npl
# Called when a player leaves the race (spectate etc..)
def player_leave(insim, pll):
# Delete from players dict.
del players[pll.PLID]
# Called once every second with car info.
def multi_car_info(insim, mci):
# Loop through each car in the packet.
for info in mci.Info:
# Try get the player for this car (sometimes get MCI
# packet before all players have been received).
npl = players.get(info.PLID)
if npl:
# Print the player's name.
print npl.PName
# Initialize InSim.
insim = pyinsim.insim('127.0.0.1', 29999, Flags=pyinsim.ISF_MCI,
Interval=1000, Admin='')
# Bind packet events.
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_ISM, insim_multi)
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_NCN, new_connection)
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_CNL, connection_leave)
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_NPL, new_player)
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_PLL, player_leave)
insim.bind(pyinsim.ISP_MCI, multi_car_info)
# When first connected request current host info.
insim.send(pyinsim.ISP_TINY, ReqI=1, SubT=pyinsim.TINY_ISM)
# Run packet receive loop.
pyinsim.run()
