alivebot

Alivebot

A script to find and react to !ALIVE commands in comments on the Hive blockchain.

Please note that this software is in early Beta stage, and that you need to know what you are doing to use it.

Installation

For Ubuntu and Debian install these packages:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip build-essential libssl-dev python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-gmpy2

Install Python Packages

Install alivebot by (you may need to replace pip3 by pip):

sudo pip3 install -U alivebot beem hiveengine

Configure And Run Alivebot

First clone the Github repository to your home directory:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/flaxz/alivebot

After that edit your comment templates using Nano, there are 4 comment templates.

sudo apt install nano 
cd ~/alivebot/templates
ls
nano COMMENT-TEMPLATE-1-2-3-4

Then edit your configuration file.

cd ~/alivebot
nano alivebot.config

Copy your configuration and comment templates to your working directory.

cd ~/alivebot
sudo cp -R templates /usr/local/bin
sudo cp alivebot /usr/local/bin
sudo cp alivebot.config /usr/local/bin
sudo cp run-alivebot.sh /usr/local/bin

Make the startup scripts executable.

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod u+x alivebot
sudo chmod u+x run-alivebot.sh

Copy the Systemd config to it's directory.

cd ~/alivebot
sudo cp alivebot.service /etc/systemd/system

Reload Systemd and start the bot.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start alivebot.service

Get status and error messages.

sudo systemctl status alivebot.service
q

Stop the bot.

sudo systemctl stop alivebot.service

As has been stated above this bot is in early Beta and bugs and issues are likely to occur.