Hemppa - generic modular Matrix bot

This bot is meant to be super easy platform to code Matrix bot functionality with Python. It uses matrix-nio library https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio/ .

Type !help in room with this bot running to list active modules.

Module list

Help

Prints help on existing modules.

Echo

Simple example module that just echoes what user said.

Metar

Aviation weather metar service access.

TAF

Aviation weather TAF service access.

Uptime

Prints bot uptime.

Teamup

Can access Teamup ( https://teamup.com/ ) calendar. Teamup has nice API and is easier to set up than Google so prefer it if possible. This bot polls the calendar every 5 minutes and notifies the room of any changes.

Howto:

• Create a calendar in Teamup https://teamup.com/
• Get api key at https://teamup.com/api-keys/request
• !teamup apikey [your api key]
• !teamup add [calendar id]

Commands:

• !teamup apikey [apikey] - set api key
• !teamup add [calendar id] - add calendar to this room
• !teamup del [calendar id] - delete calendar from this room
• !teamup list - list calendars in this room
• !teamup poll - poll now for changes

Google Calendar

Can access a google calendar in a room. This is a bit pain to set up, sorry.

To set up, you'll need to generate oauth2 credentials.json file - see https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials

Run the bot on local machine as OAuth2 wants to open localhost url in your browser. I haven't found out an easy way to do this on server.

When credentials.json is present, you must authenticate the bot to access calendar. There will be a link in console like this:

Please visit this URL to authorize this application: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?response_type=code&client_id=907....

Open the link and authenticate as needed. A new file token.pickle will be created in the directory and bot will read it in future. Save the token.pickle and ship it with the bot to your server. Edit Dockerfile to copy it in container if needed.

Now the bot should be usable.

Use !googlecal add [calendar id] to add new calendar to a room. The bot lists availble calendar ID's on startup and you can find them in google calendar.

Commands:

• !googlecal - Show next 10 events in calendar
• !googlecal today - Show today's events
• !googlecal add [calendar id] - Add new calendar to room
• !googlecal del [calendar id] - Delete calendar from room
• !googlecal list - List calendars in this room

Cron

Can schedule things to be done.

Commands:

• !cron daily [hour] [command] - Run command on start of hour
• !cron list - List commands in this room
• !cron clear - Clear command s in this room

Examples:

• !cron daily 19 "It is now 19 o clock"
• !cron daily 8 "!googlecal today"

Location

Can search OpenStreetMaps for locations and send Matrix location events from them. Translates Matrix location events into OSM links.

Commands:

• !loc [location] - search for location

Example:

• !loc Tampere

Bot setup

• Create a Matrix user
• Get user's access token - In Riot Web see Settings / Help & about

Running on host

Run something like:

pip3 install pipenv
pipenv shell
pipenv install
MATRIX_USER="@user:matrix.org" MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN="MDAxOGxvYlotofcharacters53CgYAYFgo" MATRIX_SERVER="https://matrix.org" JOIN_ON_INVITE=True python3 bot.py

Running with Docker

Create .env file and set variables:

MATRIX_USER=@user:matrix.org
MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN=MDAxOGxvYlotofcharacters53CgYAYFgo
MATRIX_SERVER=https://matrix.org
JOIN_ON_INVITE=True

Note: without quotes!

Just run:

docker-compose up

Env variables

User, access token and server should be self-explanatory. Set JOIN_ON_INVITE to anything if you want the bot to join invites automatically.

You can set MATRIX_PASSWORD if you want to get access token. Normally you can use Riot to get it.

Module API

Just write a python file with desired command name and place it in modules. See current modules for examples. No need to register it anywhere else.

Functions:

• matrix_start - Called once on startup
• async matrix_message - Called when a message is sent to room starting with !module_name
• matrix_stop - Called once before exit
• async matrix_poll - Called every 10 seconds
• help - Return one-liner help text
• get_settings - Must return a dict object that can be converted to JSON and sent to server
• set_settings - Load these settings. It should be the same JSON you returned in previous get_settings

You only need to implement the ones you need. See existing bots for examples

Settings are stored in Matrix account data.