A Discord bot used internally on our server to provide the following services:
- Monitor and backup audit logs (locally and on the server itself)
- Schedule events and countdown for events in specific chats
- Monitor our shop door(s) and update on whether the shop is open/closed (WIP)
- Semi-automatic verification of members in the Discord server (WIP)
- Install NodeJS & ensure it is installed to PATH.
- Create a discord bot & discord server for private development
- This is quite a good guide.
- Invite the bot to your server with these permissions:
- This privileged intent is required for auto-role detecting:
- Populate .env with the required variables:
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=... # Bot auth token
DISCORD_GUILD_ID=... # Guild ID of the server you're testing with
DISCORD_APPLICATION_ID=... # Application ID of your botnpm install # Install dependencies
npm run build # Transpile TypeScript to JavaScript
node dist/deploy-commands.js # Register any new slash commands (if applicable)
node dist/index.js # Run Discord botWe have an ESP32 at the main shop entrance monitoring if it's open or closed, if the status changes, it sends a POST request to an HTTP server with the Discord bot, which then sends a message to the server.
Fetch latest team roster + payment status from OneDrive using rclone and verify email. If passing all requirements, the user is given the role "Verified".
Syncing to the onedrive team verification roster xlsx file is done through rclone + a cron task. Syncing is done every 5 minutes using a crontab which executes an rclone sync command. To edit the synchronization file, please run crontab -e on the dev box/server to access the cron task configuration + synchronization command.
We currently sync between ~/Documents/onedrive-sync and /Gryphon Racing Administration/Team Roster folder.
Initiate a countdown from a Captain or Lead, update the countdown every 5 minutes, and push it to the latest in the chat every day. Save countdowns locally to preserve countdowns between launches.
Fetch the current running bots logs. It will fetch at most 4000 lines with an adjustable position to index deeper into the logs if needed.
This command will shutdown. Utilizes the docker's auto-restart feature to reboot the bot.
Download the audit logs every week for the past week, and upload them to Discord to the audit-logs channel (hidden by default). Can also be uploaded manually via command by Captains and Leads.
Assigns the Category role based on a users current role:
- Dynamics: Frame, Aerodynamics, Brakes, Suspension
- Electrical: Low Voltage, Embedded, Tractive System
- Business: Marketing, Purchasing, Sponsorship
This bot is run on the Embedded subsection's shop computer, it's run in a docker container and locally saved files are mounted onto the filesystem to ensure non-volatility.