Nurdbot

nurdbot is the bot in our IRC channel. It used to be based on the fantastic jsonbot by Bart Thate, but has been replaced: see [GHBot] and [Harkbot].

Writing custom commands (AKA plugs)

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Extensions go in /home/nurdbot/.jsb/myplugs/socket. In theory you could load a plugin with:

!plug-enable <plugin name>

In practice it turns out you have to kill the bot, start it again (see below how) and then do the !plug-enable.

Reloading the bot

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• kill process starting with "python2.7 ./bin/jsb-irc"
• as user nurdbot, run the following

screen ~/jsonbot/botstart.sh

• restarting the mqtt connection (for eg the temperature sensors):
  • kill and restart: /usr/bin/screen -d -m -S 'mqtt-to-sqlite3' /home/nurdbot/mqtt-to-sqlite3.py‎

Our custom commands

• !badum - for terrible jokes
• !bclabel - Prints Bookcrossing labels @ Labelprinter @ SlabPi
• !fluoro - controls the fluorescent lights
• !label - Prints labels with free text @ Labelprinter @ SlabPi
• !janee - response in the affirmative or negatory sense to inquiries
• !mpdtube - Sends search query or url to MPDTube
• !ot - shows OpenTherm data from Home assistant
• !ot-set - Updates OpenTherm thermostat setpoint through Home assistant
• !sensors - Queries sensors from Home assistant
• !speak / !spreek / !dire / !sprech / !habla - Text to speach using espeak on SlabPi (different languages yay \o/)
• !statustoggle - (temp) manually switch the space from closed to open
• !sth - temps and humidities of the different rooms
• !ticker sends text to Led ticker
• !toggle - toggles switches (Sonoff, epc, pdu) through Home assistant
• !toggle-list - shows a list of IDs that !toggle can use
• !wau-temp - Read the external temperature from the WUR sensors
• !wikipedia - customised from the basic version
• !who - Checks which known devices are connected to the Wifi (if you want to be on here, see Jarvis#Enable_tracking_for_your_MAC_address)
• !wol - Performs wake-on-lan actions for machines in the space
• !power - Current power consumption
• !sensor - Read sensors from hass

Bot replacement requirements

• Python 3 - to make it less of a pain to convert the plugins
• ACL/groups - current ones are for example SPACE, USER, MPD, SPEAK
• Nickserv integration - so we don't need to track users ourselves, perhaps, optional

possible replacements

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• GHBot (https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/ghbot)

• pyaib (https://github.com/facebookarchive/pyaib)
  • pros
    • dynamic loadable plugins
    • simple code
    • nickserv tracking
  • cons
    • some cry babies will complain that it was originally made by facebook
    • documentation is scarce
    • old and unmaintained
    • nobody uses it
  • notes
    • python3

• limnoria (https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria)
  • pros
    • documented
    • maintained!
    • ACLs
  • cons
    • plugins are hard to read (their code) << opinion by flok, somebody verify this.
  • notes
    • python3

• kiki
  • pros
    • stable code
    • maintained
    • flexible database
    • plugin interface
    • lots of functionality
  • cons
    • horrible code (organically grown)
    • java
  • notes
    • java code