meshing-around BBS/utility BOT

[somber condor]

This happens every day… every time the scheduler runs the command..

[gentle kestrel]

I put a patch in to use the default vs say nope, thanks

Also would have been a ask chirpy issues

[drowsy rock]

I know just enough about linux to raise my own blood pressure. Wtf.

[gentle kestrel]

Specifically it’s wanting to stop and restart the service to reload the new code

Oh shoot I’m sorry @drowsy rock do a bash ./update.sh

If that don’t work do a sudo bash ./update.sh

You can use up arrow and tab to help on command line

I havent +x it yet if not needed

You can chmod +x update.sh to do what you just typed (might still need a sudo)

[drowsy rock]

Ok

What about this?

[gentle kestrel]

I saw sudo nano prior, if you edited it with sudo you need to always edit it with sudo, or copy delete and remake with no elevation

Tricks like sudo su - say heck with sudo

If someone hacks into the os it’s likely already a mess

[drowsy rock]

Sudo su did the trick

I had a pie set up with a webcam monitoring my chicken incubator a few years ago and I came downstairs one day to see a bunch of bullshit about how my pie was taken over by some organization and it was a Chinese IP. So I probably have screwed myself into being way too cautious since then

[gentle kestrel]

Woah, yea not ideal

Set up a webcam with openCV to detect dogs 🐕 on the chicken cam and alert to alert.txt

If I ever see a turnkey pi/sony cam YOLO that I can turn key into the bot I will

[gentle kestrel]

Wanted to call this out:

• Location-Based Alerts: Get notified when members arrive back at a configured lat/long, perfect for remote locations like campsites, or put a geo-fence. You can also run a script or send a email. Another idea is to lower the cycle and use the bot as a 'king of the hill' or 🧭geocache game. You can also run a script to change a node config or turn on the lights🚥, have it drop an alert.txt to send a message like "Hello Start the 📊Survey"

[eager zephyr]

Questions about emergency alerts:

Are state/county level alerts captured in the FEMA IPAWS feed?

Also, what about ShakeAlert alerts?

[gentle kestrel]

Gonna take those in reverse, ShakeAlert looks cool! But I don’t see a API and I would hope they work with FEMA?

There is the earthquake command which tells you what was last recorded, I don’t know a broadcast alert will be handy for them as, no need to tie up airspace at moments of shake was my only reason holding back

I thought if the ground shakes you know

More of .. was that

Oh shit it was

As for the ipaws feed, I really feel this is a lot dependent on the local groups use of EAS service already

I have seen errors and typos and recalls of the most humorous nature working on this

The answer is yes, start with one or two and see how it goes

Too much filter blocks it and too little it’s a mess

One thing which is handy I find is watching the debug logs it will say on test day (Wednesday like today)

I saw for example a “state wide” test ignored I hadn’t had in my list I might see next go round

My area isn’t big on use of EAS any emergencies are not like mid west

Earthquakes being one

I enjoy earthquake data and keep a separate goofy project in GitHub

Specifically the earth and the recent solar activity is very very interesting to me and always has been

I could go on for a while on observations I have seen with sketchy tools

[eager zephyr]

ShakeAlert is super cool - you can actually get alerts a few seconds BEFORE the earthquake hits. I’ve worked with the folks at PNSN before for getting connections to their seismometers for the network. Milliseconds of latency count for them. The data from the initial earthquake waves has to hit the seismometers and get analyzed and the earthquake has to be detected and calculated for impacts to various locations then if alert criteria is met for a location it issues an alert. The alerts are specific to the impacts at each location they’re sent to. It can stop trains/elevators, close water/gas valves, etc… the use to the actual warnings to the public is that few seconds of warning are supposed to let you stop doing something dangerous and get somewhere safe. Originally you had to download a specific app but now for major events (5.0+ at your location I believe) they are supposed to go out over WEA as well.

Anyway long story short there is an API but you have to meet certain technical and competency requirements to access it. It’s been a few years since I asked. I got the impression they were very willing to work with people/projects who check the right boxes, but I never went much further with it. UW runs it mainly in the PNW.

Tl;dr no idea if they show up on the standard alert feed but due to the latency sensitive nature they may not.

[gentle kestrel]

In theory they do but this goes back to the local WEA/EAS team

The shake alert has X account with 15min delay but I don’t see any way to get this data without being John Hopkins or having a LLC to approach the transaction

I find this is also an issue with lightning

The data is the asset

People pay, the asset is not as free for use by projects like us

If you know anyone or find any way to have a key 🔑 I’m all ears

I don’t wanna web scrape places that will be upset or always be shifting

[eager zephyr]

I do know someone, the data is free. But I wasn’t personally ever able to pass their qualification checks to get a key. I can ask about this type of project.

[gentle kestrel]

Yea; I can’t find qualifiers outside of being a monolith

[eager zephyr]

Well one of their partners has this in their literature, so the standards can't be that high. ha.

[stone lance]

Wait, using a dynamic IP address and a relay switch makes me unhackable?

I will need a second opinion on that.

[eager zephyr]

Why? This configuration is impossible to hack.

Please connect me to your nuclear power plant's master off switch.

[stone lance]

Ok, I'm going to fetch the wrench.

[gentle kestrel]

Just put a ping refactor in to enhance its response with UDP systems

Now shown is [rf] for direct [gw] when UDP and MQTT

If the traffic is wild it will be shown as [F] for flood

Interested to hear feedback if bad

[exotic ledge]

To use multiple schedules to do different things (wx in the morning, net announcement once a week, bbslink calls) I modify the scheduler.py module, correct? Are there any specific settings I need to set on the Scheduler block in the ini?

[gentle kestrel]

Ini should say custom to use the lower section

Let me know how it goes!

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/commit/290695327dabbf87afd3b6ff56a0363482ce5524

[gentle kestrel]

Think Facebook poke

👉

[cold jungle]

Sir spud, I noted that update.sh wipes custom scheduler additions. Thoughts on making a .gitingored custom_schedules.py?

And thanks for the bot, I waited too long to take a peek at it.

[exotic ledge]

I'm sure I've mucked something up lol. Can you double check me?

I'm setting the bbslink to 5 min for some testing before I adjust and deploy.

                # Custom scheduler job to run the schedule see examples below

                #Send WX every Morning at 08:00 using handle_wxc function to channel 2 on device 1
                schedule.every().day.at("14:37").do(lambda: send_message(handle_wxc(0, 1, 'wx'), 1, 0, 1))

                # Send bbslink looking for peers every other day at 10:00
                schedule.every(5).minutes.do(lambda: send_message("bbslink MeshBot looking for peers", 2, 0, 1))

                # custom scheduler job to run the schedule see examples below
                logger.debug(f"System: Starting the custom scheduler default to send reminder every Monday at noon on Device:{schedulerInterface} Channel:{schedulerChannel}")
                schedule.every().monday.at("12:00").do(lambda: logger.info("System: Scheduled Broadcast Enabled Reminder"))```


Here is whats in config.ini

```[scheduler]
# enable or disable the scheduler module
enabled = True
# interface to send the message to
interface = 1
# channel to send the message to
channel = 2
message =
# value can be min,hour,day,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun
value = custom
#interval to use when time is not set (e.g. every 2 days)
interval =
# time of day in 24:00 hour format when value is 'day' and interval is not set
time =```

[gentle kestrel]

Great idea, do a git pull && bash update.sh

[gentle kestrel]

Try ^^

[exotic ledge]

I did and it doesn't even appear to attempt in the systemctl log 🙁 up for a little over an hour and not even a peep for bbslink 🙁

but it didnt' break the service, so thats good lol

[cold jungle]

in config.ini, there is also
bbslink_enabled = True

[exotic ledge]

Yep. I had it working on the basic scehduler block in the config file, and I could again. I'm just trying to get more functions on scheduled tasks rather than a node and a meshing around instance for each one

enabled = True
# list of banned nodes numbers ex: 2813308004,4258675309
bbs_ban_list =
# list of admin nodes numbers ex: 2813308004,4258675309
bbs_admin_list =
# enable bbs synchronization with other nodes
bbslink_enabled = True
# list of whitelisted nodes numbers ex: 2813308004,4258675309 empty list allows all
bbslink_whitelist =```

[cold jungle]

Gotcha, yah I just got this setup last night on a custom schedule and it's been working well.

been testing with every hour:
schedule.every().hour.at(":00").do(lambda: send_message("bbslink MeshBot looking for peers", 1, 0, 1))

and before that, testing 1 min in the future:
schedule.every(1).days.at("13:09").do(lambda: send_message("bbslink MeshBot looking for peers", 1, 0, 1))

[exotic ledge]

I see some inconsistencies in mine compared to yours. You've to the .at("xx:xx") for your bbs link and the (1).days where as I don't. I'll change that and see what it does

No dice 🙁

[gentle kestrel]

Try a new clean file? Make sure Python is clean indents

logger.debug(f"System: Scheduling bbslink MeshBot looking for peers every 2 minutes on Device:{schedulerInterface} Channel:{schedulerChannel}") schedule.every(2).minutes.do(lambda: send_message("bbslink MeshBot looking for peers", schedulerChannel, 0, schedulerInterface))
This works for me

[gentle kestrel]

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/modules/games/README.md

Martin I got an idea from you I added as well

[gentle kestrel]

Updated this

[gentle kestrel]

I took out my docu-blaster3420 and gave a rework to all .md

[gentle kestrel]

I had a typo in the update copy I don’t think that was your issue but I just fixed it

[exotic ledge]

I tried doing a full fresh install of the new version and was running into an install error on line 17 so I installed one revision back

[gentle kestrel]

Thank you fixed

[exotic ledge]

awesome!

[gentle kestrel]

Dreaming … https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-touch-lcd-7.htm

If nothing else, I figured it may load base firmware

[heady raven]

Did a recent update... got and error--
git pull Updating 76e9bd8..2e26819 error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: .gitignore README.md install.sh modules/README.md modules/games/README.md modules/games/wodt.py modules/scheduler.py update.sh Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge. error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: INSTALL.md etc/README.md modules/adding_more.md script/README.md Please move or remove them before you merge. Aborting
Had to do a - git reset --hard origin/main
HEAD is now at 2e26819 Update install.sh

[gentle kestrel]

Sounds about right, checking GitHub logs / don’t have answer other then I was blasting save which auto submits

I may have backed up the code checker cloud thing

You should be good, you got me mid 💥

7k insertions and 2115 deletions.

1.9.77777 silliness till now

[exotic ledge]

hmm updating and pulling down the a fresh git getting this error during install

Permissions set for meshbot on logs and data directories
./install.sh: line 398: syntax error: unexpected end of file

happened twice in the same spot. wanted to make sure the pull didn't mess up

[gentle kestrel]

Do a git pull programming python and bash
Forgot to close an fi

Thank you 🙏

[gentle kestrel]

A new map command will just log the location to a csv

You can say map good taco place and it will add the nodeID,lat long and SNR if any at all

[gentle kestrel]

More documents in, notable is a full page on bbs mail and link.

Some improvements to memory use, and also other stuff like rss reader should be more “robust” now when fetching content

[exotic ledge]

Was up until 3am trying to get the custom_schedule.py modules working it acts like it doens't even load anything even when the value is set to custom. Did a couple of versions, a couple of reinstalls, and I must be doing somethign incredibly wrong 🙁

[gentle kestrel]

More performance improvements in try again?

(I have it working on a few systems) it should be really turn key I hope 🙁

[exotic ledge]

I mean, the basic scheduler is and it works great. I'm just trying to send out a bblink to one channel and wx to another channel from 1 interface, and a daily message about regional settings on LF20 on another interface

i wiped what I had and am getting a fresh pull

I'm also 100% not discounting that I could be doing something incorrectly. My python and linux knowledge is, perhaps, barely passed novice

[gentle kestrel]

What do you edit it with?

[exotic ledge]

nano

[gentle kestrel]

Are you on a pi?

[exotic ledge]

full ubuntu vm

[gentle kestrel]

Get either vs.code (apt install code) or use a package Thonny

It will likely change your life for Python

[exotic ledge]

Ok thanks I'll grab it, but currently I'm not doing anythign but uncommenting and modifying values in custom_scheduler.py (like changing schedulerChannel to 1 to output to channel one and schedulerInterface to 1 to use interface 1) and setting the basic schedule value to custom

schedule.every(1)minute.do(lambda: send_message("bbslink MeshBot looking for peers", 2, 0, 1))
If I can get it working I'll not flood the mesh with bbs calls 🤣

[gentle kestrel]

Looks good you can also add a logger.debug or print(“hello”) to have confirmations visually it’s working

[gentle kestrel]

I did type fix every file and the installers I added “” if you use wild strings I didn’t account prior

Folder permissions could have been bad out of raspian

[exotic ledge]

So added this logger that I copied from the top
logger.debug(f"System: Starting the custom scheduler default to send for BBSlinks on AIDA:{1} Channel:{2}")

Combed through the mesh_bot service logs and I don't see the anything DEBUG | System: with my note.

Verified that my [scheduler] block is correct:

# enable or disable the scheduler module
enabled = True
# interface to send the message to
interface = 1
# channel to send the message to
channel = 2
message = "MeshBot says Hello! DM for more info."
# enable overides the above and uses the motd as the message
schedulerMotd = False
# value can be min,hour,day,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun.
# value can also be joke (everyXmin) or weather (hour) for special scheduled messages
# custom for module/scheduler.py custom schedule examples
value = custom
# interval to use when time is not set (e.g. every 2 days)
interval = 
# time of day in 24:00 hour format when value is 'day' and interval is not set
time =```

and near as I can tell I shouldn't need to change anything except for the value and setting it to custom'

If it's all correct I'll probably just kill the VM and get a fresh ubuntu install going. This is all it does anyways lol

[gentle kestrel]

If you didn’t see a log or more simply a print(“works”) something isn’t working

You shouldn’t need a reinstall but try a rm -rf meshing-around and start over?

[exotic ledge]

I've done that like 7 times 😛

[gentle kestrel]

I added some examples to the custom file for logging

[gentle kestrel]

Practice? 🤣

[exotic ledge]

so much LOL

Thanks btw 😄 appreciate the support

[gentle kestrel]

Added docs for schedule https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/modules/README.md

Also added a “link” auto config value

Try using a joke one to baby step issue of no run

[somber condor]

So… I’m pretty sure you’re sick of me bringing this up all the time… but I keep getting this error:

I updated yesterday, but I got it before with prior version. What am I doing wrong?

[gentle kestrel]

Will check it out

Docker is back online

[exotic ledge]

Something was wrong with my config.ini file somewhere. I dropped it in to text-compare to see the difference between the working one that I pulled from the template and simply changed the schedule value to custom - no real difference in the file itself. Maybe permissions? But I would think that the bot wouldn't even load if the permissions on the config file were wrong 🤷

Except for having an interface 2?

[stone lance]

When you say no real difference, is there a difference?

Yamls are notoriously finicky

[exotic ledge]

There is, and i'm going block by block stopping and starting

[stone lance]

Almost like... The other amls

[exotic ledge]

but nothing like a wrong space or a missing comment#

[stone lance]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Can you share the full thing?

[exotic ledge]

the one that wasn't working? Sure lemme scrub a couple things

wut

DadJokes set to False and the scheduler doesn't run

DadJokes set to True and I'm getting DEBUG | System: Custom Scheduler

[gentle kestrel]

That would make sense if, the module is missing it will not run hence a crash ..

[gentle kestrel]

I just refactored these errors for more errors

Meaning more verbose

Depending on reasons

[gentle kestrel]

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/commit/d59ddfd517263b7ea5843842404225840ee39e3c

[exotic ledge]

You're the best!

[gentle kestrel]

Well thanks, and thanks for working then to fix it up, others won’t have the issue and it would have taken me a while to see it

[exotic ledge]

Glad to help! I don't do much more than powershell scripting at work, but I don't give up and I'll dig and dig if i have to 😄

[gentle kestrel]

That took too long but it’s better looking now

[gentle kestrel]

docker pull ghcr.io/spudgunman/meshing-around:main

docker network create meshing-around-network

docker compose run meshtasticd

docker compose run meshing-around

docker compose run ollama

I haven’t got a trick way to config.ini yet but it’s close

You will need to get the IP for meshtasticD

If you downloaded a copy prior it may be orphaned, if you see a hash sorry

Any suggestions for improvements holla

[cold jungle]

tic-tac-woes

[drowsy rock]

Would it be possible to schedule something by sending a message to the bot?

[cold jungle]

I updated but tic tac toe still says no. Other games seems to work but my kids haven't learned blackjack yet.

[stone lance]

Yet

"the objective is simple. The house will take your money. It is your job to slow that process down for long enough to eat the buffet and get a couple of free drinks."

[gentle kestrel]

Latest pull? I can’t replicate across machines here anymore, I could replicate on some prior

There was a patch for better resolution for gametracker

I reverted my first idea

[gentle kestrel]

Got a use case? Like an alarm clock? Don’t forget lunch is in the microwave

[cold jungle]

Yeah, maybe something stuck somewhere...

[eager zephyr]

Happened to me a couple times too

[heady raven]

WOW dude you have been busy with meshing around... I just started playing with the scheduler... As well nurse dude is learning python - got a Raphael Kit for Raspberry Pi - still just a script kiddie from the 90's - ALA old IT career 🇪🇪
Mahalo 🥔 for the inspiration.

[gentle kestrel]

Sweet!

[cold jungle]

deleted the meshing-around folder and recloned. Still not working but not a big deal.

INFO | Device:1 Sending DM: 🎯Tic-Tac-Toe🤖 '(e)nd'  1  |  2  |  3   4  |  5  |  6   7  |  8  |  9  Pick 1-9: To: pdxlocs MO Base
INFO | System: 🤖 Simulator packet detected from Device: 1 Channel: 0 NodeID:251658240 ShortName:xbbs
WARNING | Device:1 Ignoring DM: 6 From: pdxlocs MO Base
INFO | Device:1 Sending DM: MeshBot, here for you like a friend who is not. Try sending: ping @foo or, cmd To: pdxlocs MO Base```

[gentle kestrel]

What’s the OS? I can’t replicate it I did just break wiki

[cold jungle]

Raspberry pi OS Trixie.

The other games I've tried work.

[gentle kestrel]

Sheesh, I really can’t. I will look more into it

[cold jungle]

I'll try running it on my mac in a bit

[gentle kestrel]

K, soon as I either revert or fix this current refactor

[gray igloo]

Got it, have a great day 🤣

[gentle kestrel]

You in USA? (No issues here try increasing timeout)

[drowsy rock]

Or just scheduling or removing announcements without having to log into the BBS.

[gray igloo]

nope 😅

that wxalert response

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[gentle kestrel]

Open meteo?

Wiki back online and got rid of the old include

Using Wikipedia API now

Gotta step out for a bit BBL

[gray igloo]

yea doubt it works in finland lol

was i blind or what but didnt see an option to disable the wx commands

[heady raven]

mwx is fun to play with as well - set the forcast for x nember of daze hihi 73

[cold jungle]

same result running on mac. Also found a new one with Video Poker:

CRITICAL | System: Error processing packet: 'cash' Device:1```
Then no game play

[gentle kestrel]

With Meteo weather enabled and noaa alerts disabled. I don’t see it in my Cmd list

[gray igloo]

Ill check later today

[gentle kestrel]

May have been the issue all along

for me, all work right now. New patch cleaning up bad global var

Also fixed an issue where UDP/flood would be able to play games on channels making more of a mess

I hope to not have game issues henceforth haha

Tick tac toe!

Martin wheee you at

[crimson onyx]

Being very tired. Been working to fix issues with 2.7.11 causing t114's to completely corrupt

all I did was write CLIENT_MUTE to the config, and BAM

[cold jungle]

Working now for me! Thank you.

[gentle kestrel]

Whew!

[gentle kestrel]

Nice, well thank you for effort on cleaning!

[crimson onyx]

You're welcome?

Right now, I'm putting off the Admin interface for the BBS until the weekend is over.

[gentle kestrel]

No rush; I’m tying to find a run away vibration on pin 6

[crimson onyx]

There's a refactor I have do to and not looking forward to it. I figured out what 2.7 is breaking when communicating with the meshtastic node, and why the BBS ends up going offline in TCP mode

[gentle kestrel]

Oh yea anything interesting

[crimson onyx]

Also, for some reason I have having a HELL of a time getting a GPS module working with the t114 as well

[gentle kestrel]

Random idea if you enable the detection sensor is it ghost firing

[crimson onyx]

So, there's a race condition... the node is expecting a BLE "ack" to the service after the nodelist ( 69421 ) is requested

So you send 69421, wait, node sends a bunch of entries from nodeDB...but it's also not LISTENING anymore when it's doing that

so it just stops sending the nodes, at all.

Instead of sending the whole nodeDB

[gentle kestrel]

I think you are tracking a good issue

[crimson onyx]

so if you hve.. you know... 200 nodes... it might get to 66 or whatever and then go silent

meaning you're waiting forever for the rest of the nodelist ( if expecting 200 ) and things break

[gentle kestrel]

I agree

I feel like this problem has been growing

[crimson onyx]

but then, when messages come in -- instead of sending you the -message- content .. it send THE REST OF THE NODELIST

[gentle kestrel]

Haha - it would be cool if there was a better node list method

[crimson onyx]

and it has to poop out however many nodes are left before it will process messages again. This is worse on TCP than BLE ( because TCP is faster and hits the race condition more )

Well, that's the thing.

They changed things so that 69420 gets node ID and stuff, and 69421 is supposed to be dedicated to nodelist stuff

but this is stopping that from working right

I spent -three days- trying to debug this, then went back to v2.6 and poof, everything works

so it's a 2.7.x bug

[gentle kestrel]

I caught some of the details in #apple - I haven’t figured it yet either but I know it’s there and growing in size

I can feel the issue happen more lately with more stress when I dev bot

I sent Garth like 6 dumps lately

Totally random - I notice when I stand near another node it happens like clockwork

So my tbeam is over there and I dev next to the bot when I send more data the app seems to crash out

Is the bot ble trying to talk to phone?

(Disabled I think) is the bot Lora causing ble issues

It’s almost like clock work lately

I will work on the bot, find an issue in firmware track it, forget what I was working on bot delete files push wrong files because I’m a squirrel and then fix video poker

[gentle kestrel]

Hangman now has ability to hangman.json and it has a how to document now

[gentle kestrel]

Unit tests for all games. 🍠

No more running around like a 🐓

[gentle kestrel]

Very exciting 📰 news, and thanks for everyone’s patience.

readrss will now read 🥁

ATOM feeds! ⚛️

[gentle kestrel]

Nothing heard, might be good to say. Some minor changes in which should improve memory and performance

[gentle kestrel]

Stack overflow gave me a snip to support rss 1,2,atom and I have I think example of each in .template working anyway

[gentle kestrel]

I tossed some noodles in to dink with compressing on air.

Specifically bbslink

🤖 2🤖

It’s not hot code yet

But if I can also send compressed telemetry along with my “compressed?” Text

Either in a multichannel future

Or just good’ nuff for a potato bot

Fixed this data

[gray igloo]

@gentle kestrel does the web dashboard generate automatically or do i need to manually do that everytime?

[gentle kestrel]

Right now it’s a log scrape tool so it needs ran at midnight and let the index cycle

[drowsy rock]

Mine is offline right now. Gotta go to the attic to reset.

[gray igloo]

Time to do a cron job xd

Would be cool if it was automatic and would show some live activity ish stuff 😅

[drowsy rock]

How do I uninstall and reinstall?

[gentle kestrel]

Like this?

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/pull/231

yes it needs a full refactor, it likely will be a new fusion idea with firefly I have a internal build. But before venturing there tidying up the 1.0 ideas 💡

[gentle kestrel]

There is comments in https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/install.sh

Very bottom

I will see about adding a -nope

Aka auto-remove

[drowsy rock]

Perfect. Done. Reinstalling now

[gentle kestrel]

This PR has a reworked installer with uninstall. Now

[lunar fog]

So.... I went ahead and blew my instance away (uninstalled as per instruction in install.sh), and re-installed from scratch. I used the basic default configuration that would be installed by me not creating a "config.ini" file by using the "config.template". I then started modifying the config.ini, adding functionality 1 step at a time and testing.

I ran into an issue that I am a bit confused about.

When it cam time to test the custom scheduling functionality, looked as the documentation on the Github site first and it instructs you to "Set schedulerValue = 'custom' to activate your custom schedules.". Ok... This is in the section describing "editing custom_scheduler.py". But this section does not exist in that file. I then looked in the config.ini file in the scheduler section, "schedulerValue" also does not exit in that file either But... within that file, these instructions exist "# custom for module/scheduler.py custom schedule examples" which I assume is referring to the "value =" option below that statement.

So I set "value = custom" and rebooted, but none of the scheduled events from "custom_Schedule.py" are being fired off.

[gentle kestrel]

Start small like with a log only

Want a video?

[lunar fog]

nothing is being logged

[gentle kestrel]

logger.debug(f"System: Starting the custom_scheduler.py defa

That was there by me

Every Monday

Only change to custom

config['scheduler'].get('value', '') # default empty

This is the value in config.ini

[lunar fog]

So I am not following you: Here is the first few lines of custom_scheduler.py...

what are you telling me to change to "custom"

?

BTW, config['scheduler'].get('value', '') # default empty is what I changed to "custom", rebooted and no events are being fired off

[gentle kestrel]

The value of value in config.ini under [scheduler]

Nothing in .py

Only change .ini

Start bot, should say “Monday”

[lunar fog]

So.... Going back to what I posted... I modified config.ini... I set "value = custom" and rebooted the pi... I think that is what you are directing me to do...

[gentle kestrel]

No just the bot

Any time you edit .ini bot code need restarted

[lunar fog]

There is nothing being logged in "mesh-bot.log"... Should there be>

I modified config.ini... I set "value = custom" and rebooted the pi...

[gentle kestrel]

If it’s a new install it will log debug messages

[lunar fog]

So when I say Nothin

[gentle kestrel]

You might want to try the new installer if you think it’s permissions?

[lunar fog]

related to the scheduler

there are loads of debug messages

[gentle kestrel]

What pi OS?

[lunar fog]

bookworm

[gentle kestrel]

Woah

That’s old

[lunar fog]

Its a pi 4... what should I be running?

[gentle kestrel]

Oh yes thinking, the older B sorry all trix now

Lemme boot a new os and see what’s up I gotta test new installer anyway

I had some user folder issues here and there I think

[lunar fog]

And what I was trying to communicate (and not doing a good job)... was that there is conflicting instructions about the scheduler depending on where you look.. just a heads up

trying to be a good beta tester....

[gentle kestrel]

Something hanging yes

@lunar fog

[gentle kestrel]

Figured it out and why you had issues

Give me a few

[gentle kestrel]

Ok there was some blocking from all the sweeping

Recommend a pull all around

[somber condor]

SHould I upgrade the Pi to Trixie?

[gentle kestrel]

Do it as you had before I fixed two major things one I had not cleaned up two

If any of the values were empty it would dump errors (you didn’t know this neither did I think about it till now patched)

I also had like 3-5 blocking - most critical was dad jokes

Repairs in and you don’t just get my bad default jokes

In burning and testing a new trickie and install uninstall now

[somber condor]

updating now

rebooting

I never saw these entrys in the log before:
2025-10-25 13:48:02,647 | DEBUG | System: Ignoring Channels: ['']
2025-10-25 13:48:02,647 | DEBUG | System: Logging Metadata Stats Enabled, leaderboard
2025-10-25 13:48:02,647 | DEBUG | System: Scheduler Enabled
2025-10-25 13:48:02,707 | DEBUG | System: No existing Mesh Leaderboard found, starting fresh
2025-10-25 13:48:02,708 | DEBUG | System: Starting the weather scheduler to send weather updates every 3 hours on Device:1 Channel:2
2025-10-25 13:48:02,708 | DEBUG | System: Starting 3 async tasks
2025-10-25 13:48:02,709 | DEBUG | System: RX Subscriber started
2025-10-25 13:48:02,709 | DEBUG | System: Watchdog started
2025-10-25 13:48:02,710 | DEBUG | Scheduler loop started
2025-10-25 13:48:15,130 | INFO | System: 🪫 New low battery record: 94.0% from NodeID:3806695596 ShortName:ELPt

[gentle kestrel]

I see good things

[somber condor]

we like good things

[gentle kestrel]

Thanks for patience and pointing it out @somber condor

It’s a crazy pile of code over here flying all over

[somber condor]

NP... I'm Happy to help....

[somber condor]

Just an FYI... First basic event fired at 16:48 my time... so far so good:

I was expecting a bit more verbose debug information about the scheduler.... Not a big deal....

[drowsy rock]

What do the red errors mean?

[somber condor]

it looks like those services may not have been installed. Did you install the pre-requisites before running the install.sh?

"requirements"...

[drowsy rock]

I just did the easy install script only

Or quick or whatever it was called

[somber condor]

are you running on a Pi?

[drowsy rock]

Yes

I do know it made me choose between pong bot or mesh bot, so that one doesn't surprise me. But the other two do.

I chose mesh

[somber condor]

So.. me too... When I ran the install.sh, I received some errors about something not installing correctly (versioning). So I actually did the manual install and that entails running "pip install -r requirements.txt ".. but I got the same error that I got when running install.sh

so there is a "over ride" that the error displays when you get the error message (manage environment" or something like that. You need to use that override to compete the installation of the requirements... Which includes the reporting service and the web service

@gentle kestrel can probubly explain this better then I can...

[drowsy rock]

Ok I'll wait for him ha. No hurry. The bot itself is working on the mesh 🤷🏻‍♂️

[gentle kestrel]

I patched to keep errors away

If you don’t use a service

[gentle kestrel]

Tossed some logs in

[somber condor]

Thank you!

[gentle kestrel]

2025-10-25 18:34:00,772 | DEBUG | System: Scheduled Tasks 3, Details:['Every 1 week at 12:00:00 () (last run: [never], next run: 2025-10-27 12:00:00)', 'Every 2 minutes () (last run: 2025-10-25 18:32:55, next run: 2025-10-25 18:34:55)', 'Every 1 day at 09:00:00 () (last run: [never], next run: 2025-10-26 09:00:00)])']

They will look like this

[drowsy rock]

Another question... Say i want to send a weather forecast at 07:30 every morning. I don't see where "option" is to put weather.

[gentle kestrel]

value can also be 'joke' (everyXmin) or 'weather' (hour) or ''link' (hour) for special auto messages

[drowsy rock]

Would it be
value = weather
Interval =
time=07:30?

Ok

So replace day with weather.

What if I only wanted the weather on Tuesday?

Also can I copy paste this block multiple times to have multiple scheduled messages?

[gentle kestrel]

Flip to using custom

But good point about the “easy” weather

It’s dumb to have it hourly

[gentle kestrel]

I updated docs and code

Yes it would be thst now

[drowsy rock]

What services need to be restarted after changing anything? I've always been just rebooting but I don't feel like that's necessary.

[gentle kestrel]

mesh-bot

Ping bot is kinda more for dyi or super light idea

[drowsy rock]

Ok thanks

[gentle kestrel]

This looks juicy

"category": "anti-social-behaviour",

data.police.uk

Welp, I had access and it’s now rejected, 🇬🇧 gets a boo for api access

120 lbs a year they want

Strangely the funny one of police data works

[gentle kestrel]

Confirmed UK paywalls

Can’t get any of the data after like 3 pulls

[twin dust]

Tell what’s bloody hard to decipher train data. In its raw form you have to track all the carriages that make up the trains.

[gentle kestrel]

Hook me up with an API and ..

There is also a How to document, it’s early might need refactors but

I couldn’t sleep

[gentle kestrel]

Can anyone else get this data?

Patched the updater some bash may have thrown errors

[drowsy rock]

Oh damn i might have to go check out presque isle if they're doing a club event. That's right by me.

[drowsy rock]

Brb

Errors are gone.

What did I screw up here? No weather report received at 08:00.

[gentle kestrel]

What did the logs say? Latest pulls should now have every 20min log for schedule showing last ran and next run

[gentle kestrel]

schedule.every().day.at(schedulerTime)(lambda: send_message(handle_wxc(0, schedulerInterface, 'wx'), schedulerChannel, 0, schedulerInterface))

[stone lance]

That's what a database is for. TOPS stuff...

[gentle kestrel]

I have a refactor for making scheduling easier I think will be much preferred

[drowsy rock]

Does the time need the quotes? "08:00"?

[gentle kestrel]

Pause for a second

[drowsy rock]

Ok

[gentle kestrel]

Gonna push something in a few

It will I hope make this much better to understand

[stone lance]

Gonna make it like cron?

That's definitely so easy to understand.

[gentle kestrel]

Better.. Python

[gentle kestrel]

Try again

Do a git or update

And to all using check or do

cp etc/custom_scheduler.py modules/custom_scheduler.py

it’s fully refactored now

The old works ok? But the new is cleaner in many ways

[somber condor]

Old (from yesterday 🤣) is working well. You are way too productive….

[gentle kestrel]

Haha keeps me out of trouble!

Check out the new format it’s much nicer on the eyes.

I also added some nice logs now

[somber condor]

Gonna do a pull now

I need to automate this…. Like 4 times a day

[gentle kestrel]

Haha well it comes and goes; summertime I’m not behind a screen as much. Winter hit quick and well

I can dream

[somber condor]

So.. should I update to Trixie on my Pi?

[gentle kestrel]

Boy I don’t know yet myself

I hope this wasn’t prompted by an error but

Only complaint so far in trixie is missing depends

too new and all

And for me it’s the classics like old ham radio crap

I gotta find out why my build for hamlib is crashing, it’s me

I don’t know how I feel about new vnc but it’s kinda low issue

Wayland is

[somber condor]

I really like the enhanced logging. Thanks for implementing that

I just wanted to make sure me running bookworm was causing issues for you if you were developing against trixie…. I’m happy to stay where I am

[gentle kestrel]

Totally fine, no worries at all it’s still very stable in my head the other day I read bullseye incorrectly

[drowsy rock]

Will do once my printer finishes updating! My linear rails arrived so i took it apart to figure out brackets, to find out they shipped the incorrect rails. Back together with the worn out pom wheels until Wednesday

[gentle kestrel]

Print some brackets? I run a basic A8 diy still

8am worked

[drowsy rock]

Probably just drill aluminum angle brackets on the drill press.

So the changes are in custom scheduler? And how do I activate that, just does it automatically after I do my schedule and save it/restart bot?

[gentle kestrel]

A git pull will update the code

[gentle kestrel]

Take note of this

I also just patched, and changed the default to one day of weather

send_message(handle_wxc(0, 1, 'wx', days=1), channel, 0, interface)

If interesting

This is all in custom

it won’t update unless you copy the etc/ over or check it for example code

I didn’t realize this was so handy and it just wasn’t well built before

Call it schedule a 2.0

@drowsy rock

[gentle kestrel]

Patched up dx command a little.
Specifically the assist to filter by xOTA is now just ota= and I had by= but changed that to
of=

makes more sense to say
dx of=k7mhi

And shorter to say
dx ota=POTA

[drowsy rock]

Sorry got pulled away unexpectedly

[gentle kestrel]

No worries, code gets better as time ticks

[drowsy rock]

I must be doing something wrong. Git pull said everything was up to date and I had something scheduled to send 4 minutes ago and it never sent

[gentle kestrel]

what are you editing files with? Try baby steps

What’s the .ini say use joke at 2 min

If that works change joke to custom

If it fails your custom.py is bad

Copy over and try again

There is lots of logs now for schedule

Send logs

Fixed filtering on

Not sure how much further to go

Added some documents for bbs

Cleaned up a little more

Had a typo on the method for “bbslink” schedule documents and files update

If you don’t use, don’t worry

[lunar shore]

@gentle kestrel Just did git pull. Thanks for all the new features. Leaderboard super neat.

[gentle kestrel]

Thanks! 🚀

[drowsy rock]

The one thing that I scheduled in config.nie just sent so that's working at least. Can you use the config.ini As well as the custom.py?

[gentle kestrel]

No if custom is set it’s all in custom_

This goes back to the basic nature of the bot, or my inability to come up with a meaningful way to take advantage of Python schedule without writing a million lines just to have a .ini parse the same values

However at this stage it’s likely easy to ask conky to make an ini

https://tenor.com/view/peewee-conky-look-playhouse-robot-gif-10281512

I got a box of displays in the mail today

[gentle kestrel]

running on a pi0W

I’m happy with performance so far

It’s not gonna play sim city 3000

But it may play some other stuff

[drowsy rock]

Do I have to set .ini to call custom, or just remove my announcement from .ini and put it in custom?

[gentle kestrel]

Can you show me the .ini announcement?

Perhaps I’m not accounting for the settings

I just thought I should add a custom string option for the .ini basic eh

I may have crappy examples

[gentle kestrel]

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/issues/235

Any input or ideas send em in

Gonna stick conky on it

[drowsy rock]

Config.ini

Custom_scheduler.py

[gentle kestrel]

The “value” is either custom or not

Custom_ will not be evaluated

So currently you have one single daily message

[gentle kestrel]

Seen here

[gentle kestrel]

This is a mess - my fault I’m looking at better language

[gentle kestrel]

I refactored it back to “lambda” build too confusing otherwise

Pull a new copy and see if you like it

I added stuff to help

Old should work, new might be better

[heady raven]

Aloha --- my femtofox meshing around recent update is LOLO

Oct 26 16:45:08 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: Started MESH-BOT. Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: Traceback (most recent call last): Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: File "/opt/meshing-around/mesh_bot.py", line 16, in <module> Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: from modules.system import * Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: File "/opt/meshing-around/modules/system.py", line 94, in <module> Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: trap_list = trap_list + trap_list_location_de Oct 26 16:45:29 wh6gxz-fox python3[3836]: TypeError: can only concatenate tuple (not "str") to tuple Oct 26 16:45:30 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 26 16:45:30 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 26 16:45:31 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Consumed 9.807s CPU time. Oct 26 16:45:31 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Oct 26 16:45:31 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: Stopped MESH-BOT. Oct 26 16:45:31 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Consumed 9.807s CPU time. Oct 26 16:45:31 wh6gxz-fox systemd[1]: Started MESH-BOT

[gentle kestrel]

Thank you!

Hit a pull

[heady raven]

thought i'd see the log output this way...

[gentle kestrel]

Rad, that’s the work of @broken sorrel!!

[gentle kestrel]

I haven’t read the code yet but

[heady raven]

weird I see output from 2.7.13 nuZ meshtasticd on the log and other nodes but not the meshtasticd node issuing the cmd... hmmm

anythoughts?

[gentle kestrel]

UDP flooding going on?

Multiple nodes with UDP in same broadcast zone

Packets arrive too fast

or get UDP’d

[heady raven]

hmm repent reboot-- now i'm getting the output ala meshtasticd -- i do have alot of meshtastid on my network

[gentle kestrel]

Haha yes same; network segmentation is the best way to handle it today

[heady raven]

oh yeah... nurse dude = geek man...

[gentle kestrel]

Nice! I hope to add some more to the list for ya!

https://tenor.com/view/radar-love-search-gif-20027720

[heady raven]

ahh brah that is sweet!

[gentle kestrel]

Uptime testing is going well 2 hours just said hello to it

[gentle kestrel]

Still happy, it’s been bashed with traffic all night. This is the “UDP only” method

Runs a display manager only under mudp

[somber condor]

Is there a way to get “current” weather conditions?

[gentle kestrel]

Via API?

[stone lance]

Looking out of the window?

[gentle kestrel]

Speaking of weather, I saw something about possibly checklist being refactored. Anyone use the command checkin be interested to hear any feedback

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/issues/242

[drowsy rock]

Maybe a check-in time window for an event in particular. Like right now I have Friend hunting alone in a tree stand, it would be cool if there was a notification sent if he did NOT check in at certain intervals.

Also a location based check in. Node hits a radius within certain checkpoints and is automatically checked in and a notification sent

[gentle kestrel]

The first part will be an enhancement, the second part is currently in the “sentinel module”

[drowsy rock]

True

Forgot about that

I guess adding the ability to set sentry ocations through the mesh would be cool.

[gentle kestrel]

It can still be enhanced for the checkin, I got those details in there

[gentle kestrel]

Like how

Yes I plan for that eventually

[drowsy rock]

A command.

Setsentry: 42.59332,-77.20094

(Response) Sentry 1 set.

Setsentry: 43.30383, -79.10038

(Response) Sentry 2 set.

Listsentry

(Response)
Sentry 1: 42.59332,-77.20094
Sentry 2: 43.30383, -79.10038

Delete Sentry 1

(response)
Sentry 1 deleted

[gentle kestrel]

Roger

I have a lot of ideas around this and haven’t ironed out a well formed plan yet to start

The move to a core like TC2 or firefly is needed to really handle this

Or not, but time will tell

[drowsy rock]

I feel you there. I ordered an hdmi switch to make using my pi easier. I don't have bad vision, but looking at my phone screen through ssh is like a mind numbing wall of tiny text. And that's when it's not disconnecting randomly.

I screwed up the schedule somehow and now nothing sends. I'll be more useful when I can use the big screen

[gentle kestrel]

I really like this product it’s made by multiple suppliers

It comes in a heavy box with many sundries

I have a few now and they hold up

[drowsy rock]

I have that exact one. Lost the cable for it 😂

I have like a 32" gaming monitor that's perfect. I don't game, but I can set up multiple windows and they're all big enough to see at once.

I just hate constantly disconnecting it from the PC since I always have that doing stuff for 3d printing

[gentle kestrel]

Get a HDMI to web adapter and just put them in tabs

[drowsy rock]

I've never even heard of that

[gentle kestrel]

There are a half dozen or so products I have a few which use an app on the phone KVM anywheee and all its kinda cool but the gen.1 I have is temperamental I seen some kickstarters for new ideas

It’s basically a frame parser on a pi haha

We need a good wireless video standard for low grade visuals

[drowsy rock]

I guess i could do a remote desktop session from the Windows pc. Hdmi switch will be here Wednesday anyways though

I used to do that with tailscale.

[gentle kestrel]

Tossed in some ideas

[drowsy rock]

Logged in via putty on the big screen. Tried 'custom' and just custom in config.ini.

Tried 18:00 and "18:00" for the time in custom_scheduler.py

No dice

[gentle kestrel]

I’m running out of ideas, works for others and me all over

I can make a video

Screen shots in a fancy doc

You can DM the the files and I can use them on my bot

.

In other news I been testing LLM all day and it’s working ok

OpenwebUI is nice native

[gentle kestrel]

Ok; new LLM mess seems ok

Added OpenWebUI which is really the biggest thing

If you don’t know

You can load it with markdown of PDF’s of your owners manuals and then search that

Askai will use wiki for context

It’s not openAI

But it works

[heady raven]

I've got to check this out!
with aloha 🤙

[gentle kestrel]

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/modules/llm.md

[gentle kestrel]

Oh, this is juicy ….

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/pull/243/files

Read the help files it made.. shit I’m out of a job!

🧃

🥤

Think of the lemons 🍋

My kids usta take shit all over the house and set up a fake store I would run out of money or try and return items I thought sucked

So this was kinda for that

Or like jamesarich had the idea for

Tool check outs and check in

I haven’t reviewed the code yet but I don’t imagine it will be trash

Disclaimer, this isn’t for commercial use

But, enjoyment

If you enjoy a ham fest swap, that’s on you pal .. 73

I do wanna refactor some things so

@drowsy rock it took the idea you had and … did well

Tree 🌲 calls?! Barcode scanners ..

Juicy

This thing is rad fun

[heady raven]

Oh yeah 👀🙃

so -- next OpenWebUI -- docker only? I have docker running on another server not this one...

[gentle kestrel]

The easy way yes; otherwise it’s a machine build from docs

It’s not quick work

The docker spins up fast and till you know what you dooin

I recall blowing the volumes away a lot when I was new at it, if you never played with openwebUI you could spend a month lost in it easily

[gentle kestrel]

I pressed a release to have freeze before the next one

[drowsy rock]

Yeah I don't think it's an issue with the program I just think I'm not getting something set up correctly. Would you mind sending a screenshot of your custom scheduler.py?

And the schedule section of config. Ini

[drowsy rock]

Dude that code is amazing. I forgot to answer your question regarding editor. Using Nano. Perhaps it is an indentation issue?

[gentle kestrel]

Yes that could be, the white space in Python is as important as the code

My copies are the live ones on GitHub

I added some more “documentation” to the custom .py

1. in config.ini set "value" under [scheduler] to: value = custom 2. edit this file to add/remove/modify schedules 3. restart mesh bot 4. verify schedules are working by checking the log file 5. Make sure to uncomment (delete the single #) the example schedules down at the end of the file to enable them Python is sensitive to indentation so be careful when editing this file. https://thonny.org is included on pi's image and is a simple IDE to use for editing python files.

.

If you happen to use docker I just updated :main release with suggestions from dependabot

[gentle kestrel]

Another one in the queue https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/issues/245

[drowsy rock]

No docker. I just installed on a fresh pi image with the provided script

[drowsy rock]

Oh I thought of another suggestion the other day. For the leaderboard, separate high flying nodes for top speed so ground base ones can have their own category

[mortal shale]

is chunking broken for anybody else?

I keep just getting the first chunk of cmd's response, for example

I was having that issue and then just pulled again

But I have some weird merge conflicts because I modified mesh_bot.py's scheduler section

Every time I run cmd, I get this back:

Bot CMD?:ping, bbshelp, bbslist, dx, games, hfcond, howfar, howtall, joke, leaderboard, messages, moon,

I ran wx and the log indicates it should have sent four packets and instead sends only the first

I just backed up my mesh_bot.py and ran git reset --hard origin/main and I'm still only getting the first chunk

[heady raven]

wokring out this error...
INFO | Device:1 Channel:1 ReceivedChannel: Askai the meaning of life From: Nurse dude rns ,644 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:1 SendingChannel: Average query time is: 36 seconds ,876 | WARNING | System: LLM Query: Ollama API request failed: HTTPConnectionPool(host='192.x.x.x', port=11434): Read timed out. (read > ,877 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:1 SendingChannel: ⛔️ Request Error
ran the cmd askai a few times with the same results... repent -- reboot???
nah- still get read timed out... hmmm... 🤪

[gentle kestrel]

Did it work before? Looks like a failure on connection? was llmUseWikiContext enabled?

Was the model changed

I have the url timeout at the config value times like 5?

So 100 second wait

Is ollama working online if you just browsed

(I can’t replicate)

[gentle kestrel]

Not that I know of.

[mortal shale]

It used to work, but I don't think I changed anything

[gentle kestrel]

Try disable custom see if a syntax clogged

[mortal shale]

I'm doing a complete re-install from scratch right now

[gentle kestrel]

I may not have accounted for something

[mortal shale]

It's almost done

[gentle kestrel]

The only chunking issue is with some radios or close setups might need splitDelay = 2.5 extended

I have dropped a lot of wait

[mortal shale]

It is almost definitely weird cruft because I started using the bot when the scheduler was still in mesh_bot and it ended up somehow borked

And then I did something dumb in git

[gentle kestrel]

Let’s see how the new build goes, I can’t replicate the issues

The new custom_ template has a try: safety guard now as well to trap errors better

If there is any error; it would make the whole bot feel like it’s shaking

[heady raven]

yeah it worked for a bit same model etc. looked at the log on the AI pi5 16gb...
so- when i run cmd askai i get this output
level=INFO source=ggml.go:492 msg="offloaded 0/35 layers to GPU" :00 level=INFO source=server.go:1306 msg="waiting for server to become available" status="llm server loading model" :00 level=INFO source=server.go:1310 msg="llama runner started in 2.60 seconds" 00 | 50.047560918s | 192.168.86.38 | POST "/api/generate"

[gentle kestrel]

What changed from the post today the 28th around 03:00PST

Did you move ollama

Change models

To better trap the error need to know how it changed

Did you try docker?

OpenwebUI?

Adjust rhe raw mode

I should draw a logic tree

I have a new and old install and they work with no hiccups

[heady raven]

no none of that-- i'm using docker openwebui on another pi and it's not active- openwebai is BIG--

[gentle kestrel]

Yes it is it can be huge fyi

Make sure http://IP:3000 loads all over

Make sure the model in .ini is also in the upper left

Make sure you can search in webUI

[heady raven]

TPSConnectionPool(host='apps.fema.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /IPAWSOPEN_EAS_SERVICE/rest/feed (Caused by SSLError(>
🤪

[gentle kestrel]

Is this unrelated to LLM?

Make sure certs are trusted by bot service

Environment=REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt Environment=SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

.

Added notes to LLM readme for more help OpenWebUI

[heady raven]

I think is about PAWS - SSLCert verification...
Oct 28 07:40:08 hawaiimeshmap bash[44449]: 2025-10-28 07:40:08,629 | WARNING | System: iPAWS fetching IPAWS alerts from FEMA failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='apps.fema.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /IPAWSOPEN_EAS_SERVICE/rest/feed (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)')))

Ok-- Log from mes bot

Oct 28 07:57:11 hawaiimeshmap bash[904]: 2025-10-28 07:57:11,912 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:0 ReceivedChannel: Askai what is the meaning of life? From: Nurse dude rns Oct 28 07:57:12 hawaiimeshmap bash[904]: 2025-10-28 07:57:12,831 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:0 SendingChannel: Please wait, response could take 30+ seconds. Fund the SysOp's GPU budget! Oct 28 07:58:05 hawaiimeshmap bash[904]: 2025-10-28 07:58:05,088 | WARNING | System: LLM Query: Ollama API request failed: HTTPConnectionPool(host='192.168.86.24', port=11434): Read timed out. (read timeout=50) Oct 28 07:58:05 hawaiimeshmap bash[904]: 2025-10-28 07:58:05,089 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:0 SendingChannel: ⛔️ Request Error

Log from Ollama pi--

10:00 level=INFO source=server.go:1306 msg="waiting for server to become available" status="llm server loading model" 10:00 level=INFO source=server.go:1310 msg="llama runner started in 41.46 seconds" 500 | 50.05193974s | 192.168.86.38 | POST "/api/generate"

[gentle kestrel]

Try it all from the browser @heady raven

Make sure it works 100% before using the bot

Make sure 100% the models are loaded

If not 102% sure it’s likely that

less bot logs more screenshots of it working outside the bot

[gentle kestrel]

Yes, Done

[heady raven]

`the big Q...

Olama run gemma3:latest

what is the meaning of life
Okay, let's tackle this big one:`
BLAH blah...

[gentle kestrel]

This sounds good? Step one

If that was results via openwebui(ollama) very good

Make sure it works from Lynx or or something on the bot node

Validating no firewall etc

Likely not due to not a 404 but complex error

I assume model selections

Make sure you got the API key! 🔑

[heady raven]

NAME ID SIZE PROCESSOR CONTEXT UNTIL gemma3:latest a2af6cc3eb7f 5.3 GB 100% CPU 4096 About a minute from now

It's runs fine from the cmd line...

[gentle kestrel]

I don’t see a screenshot of OpenWebUI

It’s a web page can’t be used via CLI without lots of experence

Is the web page working

From docker to html it’s about 5min or so

Depending on PC I use only high speed disk here

This is .. latest compute?

A pi might fall down

I should add that note

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-open-webui/

Random first google

[heady raven]

I'm not running OpenWebUI.. just Ollama... I ran out of room on the pi I was configuring it on last night. have to start over... 🤪

[gentle kestrel]

Ok good to know. So this is a new install?

[heady raven]

no the install was running and then all the logs you saw-- no config change.. 🤪

[gentle kestrel]

Ohhhh, I got ya

You did a git pull and here we are?

Let me read logs again now understanding this

[mortal shale]

Chunker works after freshly nuking everything

Just need to fix my scheduling now

[gentle kestrel]

Update has a quick diff check

[heady raven]

sorry bro- playing with a few AI toys... yeah-- just trying to figure out - wtf-- it was working --

[gentle kestrel]

No worries Did you set 0.0.0.0 in ollama service file

[mortal shale]

I've been updating by doing sudo git pull; sudo systemctl restart mesh_bot

Is that dumb?

[gentle kestrel]

naw but the update.sh will do it and other stuff for ya

Like if you edit the bot

It will warn you before your work is trashed

And if you don’t know what you edited and it broke it will force a reset

This is all because it happens to me daily

[heady raven]

Wtf 😳 nothing new in the configuration really just a lot of playing around. I’ll get to the bottom of this ha ha. Obsession gotta love it.

[gentle kestrel]

Nice I added the notes to LLM.md for the future

[heady raven]

Sweet still working OK then ha ha

[gentle kestrel]

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/commit/cbb4bf0a3c6d3a2053dc6c5af785c4a5189b44ee

I don’t have a full time HF rig POTA only

*testing welcome (issue submitting git would be handy if you have specific details)

[drowsy rock]

I'm going to have to figure out what you guys are doing to control this with a web interface. I have been working my ass off soldering things and 3D printing things and haven't followed closely since last night but it sounds interesting whatever it is haha

[mortal shale]

Wait, the web interface is supposed to work?

I thought that was just an artifact

[gentle kestrel]

Haha it should work and yes it’s just a dashboard

I got ideas

Its map is for users of the bot not any user heard

FYI

Lots of other map projects

It’s a very basic log scraping data collector, my frustration if a log changed the engine needs fixed

[drowsy rock]

Have you seen my map in the maps section? I didn't think of it until now, but that would be a cool implementation. It's for showing points that had service of any kind for all users, not BY user. The points fade over a given time frame. I didn't make that selectable on the map because I thought of that afterwards, Pat I have used it set to 6 months, a month, a week. Basically the idea is to show where there is coverage at all times and older points fade out gradually. If they don't get updated with new points you can tell that that area no longer has service for some reason. It's set up so you just download the position logs of other nodes and then it parses out the relevant information to place on the map. I also made it so removes older points within 100 yd of new points to avoid congestion.

[gentle kestrel]

I think I have once yes; I’m gonna possibly fork firefly for a dash/client

Need to work out some game ideas 😉

Pygame can deliver via HTML

Gonna churn thru some core ideas and decide if a new bot engine is needed

If yes that changes the dashboard quickly

Ironing out checklist in a tree right now

[drowsy rock]

Looking into this now

So I'm using Geany And it says permission denied when I go to save a file. Any ideas?

Okay I think I see what's going on. So should I edit the one in modules or etc?

Sudo geany

[gentle kestrel]

Modules

etc/ copy is the one I change with GitHub

[drowsy rock]

How do I find your examples on GitHub? Or did I misinterpret that message

[gentle kestrel]

cat etc/custom_scheduler.py

If you edit it - git will overwrite

It’s like config.template

I could rename it to avoid confusions

[drowsy rock]

Ohhhh ok

[gentle kestrel]

I renamed it

[gentle kestrel]

Ok the checklist and inventory is in

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/modules/checklist.md

https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/blob/main/modules/inventory.md

[heady raven]

Mkay -- it went LOLO on me --
Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap bash[14077]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'config.ini' Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: Stopped mesh_bot.service - MESH-BOT. Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: mesh_bot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 28 15:17:04 hawaiimeshmap systemd[1]: Failed to start mesh_bot.service - MESH-BOT.

I think I'll stay away from updating femtofox bot-- until this one is back and happy

[gentle kestrel]

Looks like you sudo ‘d the config.ini?

This file is ignored by me

You can chmod it or handle it with a copy from .temolate

I know what it is; you have high security

It’s trying to add the new if 'inventory' not in config:

[inventory] enabled = False

The bot and config.ini are in separate security realms

So handle it however

[drowsy rock]

Will it recognize "check in" as well?

[gentle kestrel]

checkin

otherwise check all checks could get crazy

Did you check in the box for the cat

[heady raven]

I went for the chmod for the fix-- happy -- not sure why the update changed it-- my set-up was the same. learning and playing - good stuff

[gentle kestrel]

That file is in my .gitignore

[heady raven]

btw -- same issue with the femtofox update -- w/same chmod fix -- oh yeah

[gentle kestrel]

Some time a push will have in update.sh

echo "Warning: config.ini is owned by root (possibly edited with sudo)."

[drowsy rock]

I'm trying to install this not using sudo because that seems like it's been an issue for me. What do I do to get around this without also using sudo?

[gentle kestrel]

sudo chown -R meshbot:meshbot "/opt/meshing-around/-around/logs"
sudo chown -R meshbot:meshbot "/opt/meshing-around/-around/data"
sudo chown meshbot:meshbot "/opt/meshing-around/-around/config.ini"
sudo chmod 640 "/opt/meshing-around/-around/config.ini"
sudo chmod 750 "/opt/meshing-around/-aroundlogs"
sudo chmod 750 "/opt/meshing-around/-around/data"

@drowsy rock @heady raven

This should clear it up

I’m adding to install

[drowsy rock]

Thank you

bbs@raspberrypi:/ $ sudo chown -R meshbot:meshbot "/opt/meshing-around/-around/data"
sudo chown meshbot:meshbot "/opt/meshing-around/-around/config.ini"
sudo chmod 640 "/opt/meshing-around/-around/config.ini"
sudo chmod 750 "/opt/meshing-around/-aroundlogs"
sudo chmod 750 "/opt/meshing-around/-around/data"^[[201~chown: invalid user: ‘meshbot:meshbot’
bbs@raspberrypi:/ $ git clone https://github.com/spudgunman/meshing-around
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'meshing-around': Permission denied
bbs@raspberrypi:/ $

[gentle kestrel]

What user did you use

I just assumed meshbot

[drowsy rock]

It's always this baffling permission shit that causes me to abandon the RPI for 2 mroe years.

i have no idea. the default one which is probably bbs

[gentle kestrel]

You should disable sudo

The default is meshbot so

[drowsy rock]

how do I change users?

[gentle kestrel]

it really don’t matter except your sanity

[drowsy rock]

or what is best ha.

[gentle kestrel]

If security isn’t a issue disabling sudo all together might help

[drowsy rock]

how do I do that?

i don't have this open to the web so I can do whatever

[gentle kestrel]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/supportpkg/raspberrypi_ug/enable-passwordless-sudo-in-linux-on-raspberry-pi-hardware.html

[drowsy rock]

it's online, just not through the router for ssh etc.

[gentle kestrel]

Yea it’s like UAC in windows

It’s nice but it’s not

I could have better set up the project folder

[drowsy rock]

Okay now we're getting somewhere

[gentle kestrel]

Good waiting to push a schedule patch 😉

[drowsy rock]

since i already installed ollama, i can skip that, right? it takes a century to download

mesh

y

damnit lol

[gentle kestrel]

Yea

[drowsy rock]

Ok I see the openwebui you were messing with. that's docker only?

[gentle kestrel]

to quick start yes

You will want to figure it out in docker

It’s a huge ecosystem

[drowsy rock]

ok I will leave that be for now

[gentle kestrel]

Yes ideally learn it on its own

It’s huge

You can spin up you own LLM with it

huge

Very powerful

[drowsy rock]

nice. will have to mess with that

do i have to add anything for the new checklist since i just pulled the latest?

[gentle kestrel]

Not really but do another

Haha

[drowsy rock]

ok

[gentle kestrel]

Features are done being added for the day

[drowsy rock]

js8call. i like that

[gentle kestrel]

Now it’s bug fix, enhance for the weekend

[gentle kestrel]

Do test it

I haven’t at all yet and it might be crap

Someone already asked me “you don’t use js8 call do you”

Haha

I don’t much at all

Specifically I don’t know what is a good alert yet

Tomorrow I plan to build a full lab and get test functions in

[drowsy rock]

I used to run it every day when I had room for a full wave 80m loop antenna outback. not the situation currently so i run it portable only occasionally

[gentle kestrel]

Yea I’m only potable these days, but I wanted to have this for pota

Meshbot on the truck with WiFi and my pota laptop connected

Get spots and alerts

[drowsy rock]

yes. been wanting to pota. have not yet.

[gentle kestrel]

Dooo it, it’s a blast

[drowsy rock]

for config.ini scheduler. i set value to custom. leave the enabled line = true or false?

[gentle kestrel]

set it to joke and make sure it works while you edit custom.py

[drowsy rock]

wife and i each signed up for accounts and i keep seeing events that i want to go to, but every single time i have something else going on.

ok

[gentle kestrel]

Just go out and work 10 contacts some day when you got time

Don’t spot or schedule

basic ham radio 📻

Be sure to log and keep good notes of each park and log

I like to keep a log for each park

Never mix parks

Apps like polo/ham2k are nice

Just do this till you feel comfortable

Then worry about logs and pushing past 10

I enjoy working field radio first, due to the chaos and extra troubleshooting

Not all enjoy that and practice is the only way to eliminate stress

[drowsy rock]

same. I have some pretty great field setups i continue to improve. I like to focus on the absolute lightest weight, minimal setups.

and speed

[gentle kestrel]

I can deploy in 30min or less work almost all bands up to 300w and have 1xx qso in 4 hours or less

[drowsy rock]

I make chalk line antennas that have knots at pre tested lengths for various frequencies so you can feel them in the dark as you unreel them.

[gentle kestrel]

Sweet!

[drowsy rock]

[scheduler]

enable or disable the scheduler module

enabled = True

interface to send the message to

interface = 1

channel to send the message to

channel = 0
message = "MeshBot says Hello! DM for more info."

enable overides the above and uses the motd as the message

schedulerMotd = False

value can be min,hour,day,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun.

value can also be 'joke' (min/interval) or 'weather' (time/day) or 'link' (hour/interval) for special auto messages

'custom' for module/scheduler.py custom schedule examples

value = joke

interval to use when time is not set (e.g. every 2 days)

interval = 1

time of day in 24:00 hour format when value is 'day' and interval is not set

time =

i have not received a joke

[gentle kestrel]

Something has gone wild, sadly I can’t replicate this at all

2025-10-28 19:59:19,682 | INFO | Device:1 Channel:2 SendingChannel: I went to the zoo the other day, there was only one dog in it. It was a shitzu. 2025-10-28 19:59:20,063 | INFO | System: 🤖 Simulator packet detected from Device: 1 Channel: 2 NodeID:3720400227 ShortName:5LAB 2025-10-28 20:00:00,928 | DEBUG | System: Scheduled Tasks 1, Details:['Every 1 minute () (last run: 2025-10-28 19:59:21, next run: 2025-10-28 20:00:21)])']

It should look like this

[drowsy rock]

my current favorite and coincidentally by far my cheapest setup, (tr)uSDX with a microsoft surface go, solar panel, lipo battery, and solar panel. Everything but the panel and computer fit in a small waterproof case, it all fits in a saddlebag with plenty of extra room. wsjt-x, js8call, winlink (with vara), and FLDIGI on the computer so i can do whatever.

[gentle kestrel]

Important bits
[scheduler] enabled = True value = joke interval = 1

[gentle kestrel]

Awesome

[drowsy rock]

it's donig SOME things. 2025-10-28 23:01:57,887 | INFO | System: 🥶 New coldest temp record: 2.85°C from NodeID:2648399514 ShortName:🪽
2025-10-28 23:01:57,888 | INFO | System: 🥵 New hottest temp record: 2.85°C from NodeID:2648399514 ShortName:🪽
2025-10-28 23:01:58,364 | DEBUG | System: Packet Received on SerialInterface Interface

[gentle kestrel]

You need to see something like this for schedule

Scheduler loop started Tasks: 1, Details:['Every 1 minute

[drowsy rock]

2025-10-28 22:59:12,655 | DEBUG | System: RX Subscriber started
2025-10-28 22:59:12,655 | DEBUG | System: Watchdog started
2025-10-28 22:59:12,655 | DEBUG | System: Scheduler loop started Tasks: 0, Details:[]
2025-10-28 22:59:33,151 | DEBUG | System: Packet Received on SerialInterface Interface

do i need to activate dad jokes?

[gentle kestrel]

Did you disable it?!

Yes to use the option it will need to be useable on mesh

I’m not checking this now

[drowsy rock]

yes haha. it kept sending jokes when i had a person messaging about a sprained ankle so i disabled it lol

[gentle kestrel]

Haha

[drowsy rock]

I will go make it true and try again

[gentle kestrel]

By default it should trap only when it’s at position zero

So saying this joke is good won’t do it

Joke now will

Older code didn’t do that

[drowsy rock]

ok systemctl restart mesh_bot sent. now we wait

Well I'll be...

[gentle kestrel]

Haha nice

[drowsy rock]

Omg it sent the same one twice haha

[gentle kestrel]

Did you update to very latest

I fixed this around the moment you installed I think

[drowsy rock]

no but i will now

done. these two popped up. not sure if relevant. Job for mesh_bot_reporting.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status mesh_bot_reporting.service" and "journalctl -xeu mesh_bot_reporting.service" for details.

for custom scheduler, I only edit the commented out portions at the bottom and uncomment? also, Do i leave it as the variable "schedulerChannel", and then change the channel up above where it currently has like ("xfdssd", 2, 0, 1)

For example, I want this to be channel 0 on interface 1. The way it's set up, I would imaging that I do not change the variables (schedulerChannel, schedulerInterface), but instead go above and change them here? def send_wx(channel, interface):
## uses system.send_message to send the result of handle_wxc(id,id,cmd,days_returned)
send_message(handle_wxc(0, 1, 'wx', days=1), channel, 0, interface)

[gentle kestrel]

Channel is 0 and interface is 1

Just replace word scheduleChannel

I’m using a fancy IDE to make it pretty

You won’t see all the color and some text

[drowsy rock]

Ok I set up 2. the jokes to test.

Send a joke every 2 minutes

    schedule.every(2).minutes.do(lambda: send_joke(channel=0, interface=1))
    ### Send a good morning message every day at 9 AM
    #schedule.every().day.at("09:00").do(lambda: send_good_morning(schedulerChannel, schedulerInterface))
    ### Send weather update every day at 8 AM
    schedule.every().day.at("08:00").do(lambda: send_wx(channel=0, interface=1))

allllllright we are IN

I am going to call it a night soon, but I informed my buddy about checking in and out. I want to figure out how to make it alert me when someone misses a checkin.

Or more specifically, alert a channel we have set up for a few of us.

I'll mess with that tomorrow though. Thanks for the patience and all the help!

[gentle kestrel]

It will send to broadcast alert channel

It for sure does something let me know how field testing goes

[gentle kestrel]

To anyone interested in offline tide data https://github.com/SpudGunMan/meshing-around/pull/248

I would be interested to hear your feedback

I am not eager at this moment to merge

I’m not sure if I have bad time zone (very possible) but my data didn’t seem accurate

Read the help

It’s intended for offline use

[drowsy rock]

Checkin works and says the time. Checklist does not work, and it doesn't send an alert anywhere. This is the friend who is actually in a tree stand for real

On a positive note, got my weather report at 8:00am

[gentle kestrel]

So it’s not all cloudy! 🌥️

[gentle kestrel]

It needs to be like 20 min checkin or more as it runs on the watchdog. At 20min processing

I used checkin 4

[drowsy rock]

Ok so it works, it just had a 59 minutes after "late" delay.

[gentle kestrel]

I should set the minimum checkin to like 20

If you say checkin 10 it will say it will check in 20 but the math will actually still be normal

It’s a hard one, due to the alert running only on the :20

[drowsy rock]

Can the "overdue" be adjusted down? Or customizable?

[gentle kestrel]

Yes but it’s using checkin.time - now.time is all

Anything you read can be altered for the most part

The only limit is the processing of alerts only happens at moments in time, not every second … talking this out I could bump it up actually so

It’s 5am local, this is just a note to move the alert for this up the stack before the API checks which is the whole point it’s on the 20

[drowsy rock]

Ok it send another reminder after an additional 20 minutes so that's good. The only thing not working is 'Checklist'.

[gentle kestrel]

?

Another issue to fix is that the alert falls into normal buffers for not being annoying and - this one should be annoying (I should have gotten like 2-3 alerts ‼️)

Also I should add the BEL

[drowsy rock]

When I message a main channel with Checklist, bot responds in a DM "No data to display."

[gentle kestrel]

This would mean no one is checked in ?

Or did you find a condition of null

[drowsy rock]

Oh fuck yeah the ALERT BELL CHARACTER.

That's what kept setting off the Dad jokes during the sprained ankle situation

[drowsy rock]

It did it even when he was still checked in. I tried it right away and after I had gotten the first alert that he was 59 minutes overdue

I'm not home now so no code or log examination possible

[gentle kestrel]

Somewhere I fixed a missing key but I think you got that patch

It would show up as a .error.red

if you see it, pull will handle that

[drowsy rock]

Ok

[gentle kestrel]

A stack of patches in; but it was a lot of refactoring old ideas up

Specifically emergency alert

So; be advised to keep an eye ipaws and EAS are working

They worked in lab but I don’t have a real test case yet

I refactored it hard

[heady raven]

I've been getting SSL errors from ipaws... Haven't done a update today - yet... hihi

[gentle kestrel]

validate ssl changes to service file in /etc

Linux environment space

compare yours to my template in bot/etc/

[heady raven]

Oct 29 09:00:10 hawaiimeshmap bash[2386]: 2025-10-29 09:00:10,821 | WARNING | System: iPAWS fetching IPAWS alerts from FEMA failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='apps.fema.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /IPAWSOPEN_EAS_SERVICE/rest/feed (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:992)')))

[heady raven]

I'll check it out-- i've had my head in a few other things. been letting this one go--

[gentle kestrel]

Depending on OS I think armbian is has the change?

New trixi?

I’m on a dist-update still so my env is old

[heady raven]

I have trixi running on a pi 2w for dev- playing with a Raphael kit.
I'm going to wait for the apps I use to catch up before I move to TRIXI. I also have a cloud server in Oahu - Debian Bookworm latest - running AllStar link node 598143... http://wh6gxzhub.ddns.net/allmon3/ I have to many nodes... 🤪
I run a lot of stuff on raspberry pi's of all sizes hihi with the latest bookworm... 👀 maybe a BOT in the cloud someday... hmmm

[gentle kestrel]

Built a lab today for WSJT and JS8 and it all works! Hihi

Way to go copilot

Sounds like offline and global tide data is still no go

It works but - the data is shit for me and won’t load for another

Likely leave the branch there for a while

[heady raven]

I play with WSJTX and few other digital modes. My QRZ page is a bit outdated.
This is COOL! Currently, I have digital modes configured on a DigiPi... https://craiger.org/digipi/ maybe some things there to use in meshing-around just noticed you are on the digipi server... very cool

[gentle kestrel]

Really? Cool!

That’s a nice project!

I like the use of web console

The WSJT works just the way anyone would want I think it’s perfect for spotting alarm

JS8 call I don’t use enough to know if it’s super handy but works about the same way

[heady raven]

I played with JS8 call a few years ago- ran a bunch of ham software on this device called an Inovato quadra -- I run Hamclock on it - awesome $ price
This guy is something else! What a
https://inovato.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoquid3J1fElRAVMXcu3yd8lXaT6BhDNSYdSd7j4ocUvQygZS2YD

[gentle kestrel]

Yea they are popular!

[drowsy rock]

Is there a way to make echo repeat the message into default channel, when messaged via DM? Also, it does not like punctuation at the end of sentences. It just returns the example hello for that.

Oh it's because if '?' In message.lower.

Fixed

[gentle kestrel]

Haha yea it’s a local echo; got a use case

it’s abuse factor is obviously high

In goofin with this

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

It can hear it can think it can .. speak?

[heady raven]

here's a good one -- hmmm
Amtliche WARNUNG vor STURMBÖEN 🚨 Amtliche WARNUNG vor STURMBÖEN
translation I guess - Official warning of gale-force winds

[gentle kestrel]

I’m glad warnings work

[gentle kestrel]

The checklist now has working approvals. With an auto approve checkin

It will only alert on approved checking

✅ approved ☑️not

if checklist isn’t working delete the data base

[gentle kestrel]

also patched leaderboard to better handle high fly

[heady raven]

How am I getting this on ealerts...
I config'd something wrong haha
🚨 Amtliche WARNUNG vor STURMBÖEN
🚨 Amtliche WARNUNG vor STURMBÖEN

[gentle kestrel]

You may not have, actually

[heady raven]

I like LEADERBOARD! very cool info-

[gentle kestrel]

Thanks I didn’t think that all out prior

[gentle kestrel]

Guess what day it is …

New command day!!!

https://newsapi.org/login

API key free limited to like 1k a day

But you can just free type topics

So that’s fun

[drowsy rock]

Got mine

[gentle kestrel]

Haha it should work now as well, last second changes before sleep didn’t work

[drowsy rock]

Will update when I get home

[gentle kestrel]

Also now updated to allow a sort_by in config.ini

I find it can give some different results from “popular” to the other more timely

Also of note im forcing last 7 day headline

So news on something 14 months ago may not return?

🤷 lmk if it needs more

It’s the cleanest option for generic news I seen yet aside from $ services

The goal overall is offline, and Readnews will always work why this got the latest news

[somber condor]

so interesting occurance this morning. I did my pull to update Meshing-around and rebooted my pi.... Nothing started. no log entrys, nothing. I manuall ran "launch.sh" and everything started up so the system updated. But obviously when I stopped the launch.sh script, everything shutdown again..

just a heads-up...

[gentle kestrel]

This is a external error. If it started back and things ok

No worries

If you ran the latest command early it may have crashed

I used a bad string for a header

[somber condor]

so... I un-installed and am re-installing from scratch.... I will let you know if any issues arrise

[gentle kestrel]

Were you using the reporting tool?

[somber condor]

no

[gentle kestrel]

I don’t expect a reinstall needed

[drowsy rock]

I've been doing that. I saved a copy of config.ini with the important stuff so i can just swap it right in

[somber condor]

mee too

[gentle kestrel]

I put a copy in backup as well now

[somber condor]

so... it appears that some file/directory permissions have chnaged

changed

now, user "meshbot" owns data/logs and config.ini

is this new?

[gentle kestrel]

Kinda, turns out it wasn’t properly being set all over - did this make a mess?