maubot.nix

Deprecated in favor of nixpkgs after being upstreamed

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Instruction:

1. Install the NixOS module. For flake users, add this flake's nixosModules.default output to your system. For everyone else, use something like this:

   imports = [
     (import (builtins.fetchGit {
       url = "https://github.com/chayleaf/maubot.nix";
       rev = "commit hash"; # this line is optional, but recommended
     })).nixosModules.default
   ];

2. Set services.maubot.enable to true.

3. If you want to use PostgreSQL instead of SQLite, do this:

   services.maubot.settings.database = "postgresql://maubot@localhost/maubot";

   If the PostgreSQL connection requires a password, you will add it later on step 8.

4. If you plan to expose your Maubot interface to the web, do something like this:

   services.nginx.virtualHosts."matrix.example.org".locations = {
     "/_matrix/maubot/" = {
       proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.maubot.settings.server.port}";
       proxyWebsockets = true;
     };
   };
   services.maubot.settings.server.public_url = "matrix.example.org";
   # do the following only if you want to use something other than /_matrix/maubot...
   services.maubot.settings.server.ui_base_path = "/another/base/path";

5. Optionally, set services.maubot.pythonPackages to a list of python3 packages to make available for Maubot plugins.

6. Optionally, set services.maubot.plugins to a list of Maubot plugins (full list available at https://plugins.maubot.xyz/):

   services.maubot.plugins = with config.services.maubot.package.plugins; [
     reactbot
     # This will only change the default config! After you create a
     # plugin instance, the default config will be copied into that
     # instance's config in Maubot database, and base config changes
     # won't be reflected
     (rss.override {
       base_config = {
         update_interval = 60;
         max_backoff = 7200;
         spam_sleep = 2;
         command_prefix = "rss";
         admins = [ "@chayleaf:pavluk.org" ];
       };
     })
   ];
   # ...or...
   services.maubot.plugins = config.services.maubot.package.plugins.allOfficialPlugins;
   # ...or...
   services.maubot.plugins = config.services.maubot.package.plugins.allPlugins;
   # ...or...
   services.maubot.plugins = with config.services.maubot.package.plugins; [
     (weather.override {
       # you can pass base_config as a string
       base_config = ''
         default_location: New York
         default_units: M
         default_language:
         show_link: true
         show_image: false
       '';
     })
   ] ++ allOfficialPlugins;

7. Start Maubot at least once before doing the following steps.

8. If your PostgreSQL connection requires a password, add database: postgresql://user:password@localhost/maubot to /var/lib/maubot/config.yaml. This overrides the Nix-provided config. Even then, don't remove the database line from Nix config so the module knows you use PostgreSQL!

9. To create a user account for logging into Maubot web UI and configuring it, generate a password using the shell command mkpasswd -R 12 -m bcrypt, and edit /var/lib/maubot/config.yaml with the following:

   admins:
       admin_username: $2b$12$g.oIStUeUCvI58ebYoVMtO/vb9QZJo81PsmVOomHiNCFbh0dJpZVa

   Where admin_username is your username, and $2b... is the bcrypted password.

10. Optional: if you want to be able to register new users with the Maubot CLI (mbc), and your homeserver is private, add your homeserver's registration key to /var/lib/maubot/config.yaml:

homeservers:
    matrix.example.org:
        url: https://matrix.example.org
        secret: your-very-secret-key

11. Restart Maubot after editing /var/lib/maubot/config.yaml, and you're done! Open https://matrix.example.org/_matrix/maubot, log in and start using Maubot! If you want to use mbc CLI, use this flake's output packages.${builtins.currentSystem}.maubot. If you want to develop Maubot plugins and need the maubot Python module for IDE support, use packages.${builtins.currentSystem}.maubot-lib. You can also use this flake's output overlays.default, in that case you should use python3Packages.maubot instead of maubot-lib.