Create specifications for a networked display system driven by a chat bot so that Modites can display images or animations on the remote screens

[obscurerichard]

Problem Statement

It would be great to have some way for Modites to send graphics, messages, or animations to the RGBrite boards.

Creating some sort of integration through Slack is one obvious way to do this.

We would need to build some more detailed specifications for this, though, and maybe do some proof of concept work. This issue is for creating the specifications.

Implementation Ideas

Here's a starting point for the specs:

• We could start with a Hubot base and extend it
• We might have Hubot listen for messages from our Slack, and then have it post to an AWS SNS topic.
• We could have the matrix controller listening to an AWS SQS queue hooked up to the SNS topic. It could then pull down a message, graphics file, or animation to play on the display.
• The sender should definitely be logged and displayed on the matrix as a social anti-abuse tactic