BeerBot

This repository is the central location for all things related to the beloved BeerBot.

Tread carefully since this is an extremely important project within KI labs.

Features

BeerBot is a slackbot capable of the following:

• checking beer (or bottled beverages) in the fridge
• identify and analyze whether bottled beverages are cold
• automatically alert when beer is running low

Processing Pipeline

Installation

BeerBot can be installed by cloning this repo and its python requirements.

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Minimal configuration with a .envrc file based on .envrc.template is required in order to link with Slack.

• build a slackbot

SLACK_OAUTH_TOKEN=
SLACK_BOT_OAUTH_TOKEN=
CHANNEL=
LISTEN_DELAY=1
ALERT_DELAY=10
MIN_BEER_THRESHOLD=5
DATA_DIR="/home/pi/BeerBot/data"
TZ="Europe/Berlin"

Deployment

There are three scripts for running the BeerBot engine.

• ./beerbot.py
  • engine for checking door state and image processing
• ./slackbot_alert.py
  • responsible for alerting when beer supply is critically low
• ./slackbot_listener.py
  • responsible for listening to when users want beer supply or coldness information

These processes are deployed with supervisor in ./supervisor/*.conf, see this for installation and setup.