Who is in the office?

This is an work-in-progress hubot plugin written in Haskell, C and Coffee-Script.

Operation:

• whobot reads list of devices from people.yaml file which looks like this:

    Hubot:
    - name: xnud.local.
    John Doe:
    - mac: 01:04:3F:0F:34:08
      name: MacBook
      type_: dhcp
    - name: JohnDoes-iPhone
    Jane Doe:
    - name: Jane-Does-iPhone
    - name: Janes-MacBook-Pro.local
  

  The Guy Who Has a Windows Phone Device With No Host Name:

  • mac: de:ad:be:ef:f0:0d

• whobot uses IPv6 pings and Mikrotik RouterOS DHCP lease database to see what devices are on the local network

INSTALLATION

make install
ln -s $(pwd)/src/scripts/whobot.coffee /path/to/hubot/scripts/

ENVIRONMENT

• PEOPLE_YAML must point to people.yaml using a resolvable path (./people.yaml is used by default)
• PING_INTERFACE must point to the IPv6-capable network interface within a local network (en1 is used by default)
• whobot and ping6x must be in $PATH

OPERATION RECOMMENDATIONS

• DHCP server lease time should be as little as possible to avoid bad results.
• Better identify using mobile phones rather than laptops.

LICENSE

Everything is public domain unless stated otherwise.

NOTES

Used only with GHC 7.4.2 and haskell-platform 2012.4.0.0 that comes in homebrew at the time of writing. I still suck at managing cabal dependencies properly so pull requests are welcome.