meshbot

connect your node over serial to Raspberry PI and let this bot answer public and private messages bot response to messages from public channel into direct messages too

requirements

• meshtastic python CLI - https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/python/cli/installation/
  • got you to install python, pip and few other dependencies
• dependencies - install with pip install -r requirements.txt

run on RPI

how to get it there

use git clone or upload via ssh (winSCP)

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/PiDiBi/meshbot.git
cd meshbot

test over ssh terminal

• edit mesh_bot.py if you need other than serial connection
• run python3 mesh_bot.py
• if it starts without errors send private message to your node from other node PING
• you should see response in the terminal and got it as message too
• terminate the script and install it as service

install bot as a service

• create and edit service file (see content of mesh_bot.service) sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/meshbot.service
• reload daemon sudo systemctl daemon-reload
• start service sudo systemctl start meshbot.service
• see status sudo systemctl status meshbot.service | more - this one displays log from the service so you can see when you send a message what happened

configure

If you want just basic bot edit this line from mesh_bot.py accordingly to pass just bots you need

message_processors: List[MessageProcessor] = [bb, wb, sfb]

change to

message_processors: List[MessageProcessor] = [bb]

commands

• basic functions
  • ping - response with PONG and signal strength
  • ack - response ACK-ACK! and signal strength
  • whereami returns the address of location of sender if known
  • joke tells a joke
  • whereami - tries to find your location from GPS
• (space) weather conditions
  • sun and moon return info on rise and set local time
  • tide returns the local tides, NOAA data source
  • solar gives an idea of the x-ray flux
  • hfcond returns a table of HF solar conditions
  • wx and wxc returns local weather forcast, NOAA data source (wxc is metric value)
• store forward
  • messages - send last 5 stored messages which were received by bot on public channel

recognition

Used ideas and snippets from other responder bots want to call them out!

• https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around