Whut?
A new IRC bot which uses mqtt to communicate with plugins. For now it runs in the #nurdbottest channel and it uses the '#' control character. It's called ghbot and lives in #nurds with '!' as command character.
Known issues
06-04-2022 - ACLs dont quite work. 23-04-2023 - Its a mess 23-02-2023 - Best IRC bot EVAH!
Undocumented Features
Mqtt
For now, mqtt is listening(?) on localhost only. The following topics can be used to communicate to/from the bot:
| Topic | Direction | Description |
| from/irc/(channel)/(nickname)/message | towards plugin | Raw feed of messages in (channel) |
| from/irc/(channel)/(nickname)/(command) | towards plugin | Listen in a channel for (ControlChar)(command) |
| to/irc/(channel)/privmsg | towards bot | Send reply in (channel) via PRIVMSG |
| to/irc/(channel)/notice | towards bot | Send reply in (channel) via NOTICE |
| to/irc/(channel)/topic | towards bot | Sets TOPIC for (channel) |
Code
Host
This runs on harkbot.vm.nurd.space (10.208.1.27). Login with user 'nurds' and the well-known password.
Building a new release
$ cd ~/harkbot $ make
Running the bot
$ sudo systemctl start harkbot
Reloading for changes
$ sudo systemctl restart harkbot
Example plugins
See the plugins/ subdirectory for some examples of plugins