StoneCharioteerBot

This is a personal telegram bot to help me with several of the services I’ve built at home.

Feature List:

• /librarian Library services
  • Book Search
    • Allow natural language-based search that is converted to Lucene query syntax.
      • Example 1: “Where is my copy of the Lord of the Rings?”
      • Example 2: “Where’s The Hobbit?”
      • Example 3: “Show me all books I haven’t read.”
      • Example 4: “Give me a book to read.”
    • Allow complex filtering based on criteria.
      • Example 1: “Where’s the book that used to be at A11?”
      • Example 2: “Find the books I bought last May.”
      • Example 3: “Find the books I bought when I bought my copy of Terry Pratchett’s 5th Elephant?”
    • Allow ISBN based search.
  • Book Inventory Management
    • Allow natural language based placement of books.
      • Example 1: “I’m placing my copy of the Lord of the Rings at A12:15”
      • Example 2: “Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors B13-14”
      • Example 3: “Moving Calvin & Hobbes: There’s Treasure Everywhere to B62:78”
    • Allow movement of books through barcode photo message followed by a position.
    • ISBN based entry.
    • Identify where a book will fit.
      • Example: “Tell me where I should put Winter’s Heart.”
• /coffee: Coffee machine timer
  • Example: “Start at 5:30 everyday.”
  • Example: “Start at 5:30 and 17:30 everyday.”
  • Example: “Start Now.”
• /monitor Personal Monitor
  • Record migraines
  • Analyse migraines
  • Respond with weather report and variations in pressure.
  • Record food I’ve eaten.
  • Record routine
• /price Product price search
  • Given the link to an Amazon product page, it’ll start monitoring the price every n minutes.
    and notify me when the price drops.
• /shopping Shopping List
  • Can create a shopping list. Add items, remove items. It will write to a Google Keep file.
• /todo To-Do List
  • Text the bot with #TODO followed by a label, it’ll add it to a todo file.
  • Text just the hashtag and the label, it’ll retrieve the entire todo.
• Misc. Easter Eggs
  • /fortune Get fortune
    • Ask for a fortune, get a fortune.
  • /joke Get joke
    • Ask for a joke, get a joke.
  • /cowsay Cowsay
    • Send text, get cowsay to respond.
  • /quotes Get goodreads quotes
  • /mail Send mail
  • /manga Manga Chapter Services
    • Get manga chapter (roshi wrapper)
    • Automatically notify when a chapter of a manga is out. Can subscribe to a manga.
  • /random Get random numbers.
• /calendar Schedulable responses
  • Reminders based on events.
    • Example: “Give me a fortune at 5:00 every day.”
    • Example: “Wake me up at 2.”
    • Example: “Tell me when x occurs.”
    • Get calendar updates.

Stack

• Search Server: Apache Solr
• Database: CouchDB
• Deployment: Docker + Docker-Swarm
• Hardware: Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Barcode Scanning: OpenCV
• Natural Language Processing: nltk

See Also

• Shelfie
• TempMon
• W1f0
• Vial

Contributors

• bukkaraya