Spotbot is an Azure Function App to convert HamAlert alerts from POTA or SOTA in to a message format that can be forwarded on to a Discord channel webhook.
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The function uses a Table in an Azure Storage Account to store the messageId of the last message posted for each callsign. If that message was posted recently (as defined by LOOKBACK_SECONDS), it will update the message instead of posting a new one to reduce the chatter of the bot.
You can find a live, working version of this bot in the Cascadia Radio Discord server, in the #spots channel. Join us!
The Azure Function App expects three environment variables:
TARGET_URL- the webhook URL from the target Discord channel.LOOKBACK_SECONDS- the number of seconds to look backwards for previous messages to update instead of posting a new oneTABLE_NAME- the name of the table in the Azure Storage Account where the last messageIds will be stored for each callsign
- Some basic tests run in
tests.pyon the creation of a new PR - To deploy, manually run
main_hamalertspotbot.yml- This will deploy to the staging slot for testing.
- The staging
TARGET_URLpoints to my private Discord server LOOKBACK_SECONDSis set to only 300 (instead of 7200) for easier testing.