Orion

Orion is a Slack bot who lives in my basement. He is extendable via plugins, making it easy to add new features.

Setup

• Have a working Node.js environment
• Have a slack workspace
• Set up a Real-Time Messaging API in Slack (possibly called Custom Integrations / Bots depending on lunar cycle)
• Take note of API Token

Installing

• Clone the repo
• npm install
• Copy example.env to .env and replace Signing Secret, Bot Token, and App Token.
• Find any plugins/*/*.exampleconfig.json files and fix accordingly.
• node app.js

Usage

Orion will respond when he is @mentioned, or to any direct messages.

Plugins

• Dark Sky - Adds Dark Sky weather forecasting to Orion
• Public IP - Adds ability for Orion to report its public IP address
• QRZ.com - Adds ability to query amateur radio callsign info
• URL - Adds ability to query for known URLs
• weeWX - Adds ability to pull current and past weather information from weeWX into Orion

Running on system startup (as a service)

Linux

• Modify orion-bot.service to point to your particular paths
• Copy orion-bot.service to /etc/systemd/system/orion-bot.service
• Start via systemctl start orion-bot
• Enable run on startup via systemctl enable orion-bot
• See output logs via tail -f /var/log/syslog