Little bot which will trap keywords like ping and respond on a DM with pong. The script will also monitor the group channels for keywords to trap on. you can also Ping @Data to Echo as a example for further processing.

other features

MOTD with ability to set remotely
- motd or motd $New Message Of the day
- lheard returns the last 5 heard nodes

mesh-bot.sh

alternate bot, adds internet and other telemetry data which goes beyond just ping

Various solar details
- sun returns the sunrise and set for the day
  - uses the locaton of the node if known
- solar gives an idea of the x-ray flux
- hfcond returns a table of HF solar conditions
- whereami returns the address of location of sender if known
- tide returns the local tides (NOAA data source)

Configurations

Currently config modifications is edit to code. Be sure to uncomment the appropriate interface for your method (serial/BLE/TCP). Only one at a time is supported to a single node at a time.

# Uncomment the interface you want to use depending on your device connection
interface = meshtastic.serial_interface.SerialInterface() #serial interface
#interface=meshtastic.tcp_interface.TCPInterface(hostname="192.168.0.1") # IP of your device
#interface=meshtastic.ble_interface.BLEInterface("AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF") # BLE interface

It is recomended to leave this setting as default True to keep the channel clear in larger mesh.

RESPOND_BY_DM_ONLY = True # Set to True to respond messages via DM only (keeps the channel clean)

Solar Data needs the LAT LONG for your area on the solarconditions.py used for when node has no location in the db

LATITUDE = 48.50
LONGITUDE = -123.0

requirements

pip install meshtastic
pip install pubsub
pip install datetime

mesh-bot enhancments

pip install pyephem
pip install requests
pip install python-dateutil
pip install geopy
pip install maidenhead
pip install beautifulsoup4

Recognition

Used ideas and snippets from other responder bots want to call them out!