spacexlaunchbot / spacexlaunchbot

A Discord bot for getting news, information, and notifications about upcoming SpaceX launches

SpaceX Launch Bot

A Discord bot for getting news, information, and notifications about upcoming SpaceX launches. Get update notifications with the latest launch information and reminders for launches that will be happening soon.

See the official SpaceXLaunchBot website!

Commands

Command	Description	Permissions needed
nextlaunch	Send the latest launch schedule message to the current channel	None
launch [launch number]	Send the launch schedule message for the given launch number to the current channel	None
add [type] [mentions]	Add the current channel to the notification service with the given notification type (all, schedule, or launch). If you chose all or launch, the second part can be a list of roles / channels / users to ping when a launch notification is sent	Admin
remove	Remove the current channel from the notification service	Admin
info	Send information about the bot to the current channel	None
help	List these commands	None

Notifications

The add command allows admins to subscribe text channels to the bots notification service. This will send the subscribed channel different types of messages:

• A schedule notification shows detailed information about the next upcoming launch. This message is sent every time the next upcoming launch has changed, e.g. if a launch date is changed or if a launch just happened so now the next upcoming launch is different. Currently changes are checked for every 60 seconds.

• A launch notification provides useful links to things such as the livestream and press kit. This message is only sent through the notification service and will be sent 30 minutes before a launch. You can choose to have a list of mentions sent to alert users to this notification.

If you want to receive both types of notification you can use all.

Currently there is no way to update the type and/or mentions you have set for a channel. If you need to change these just call remove and then add with your new options.

New Features

See the Github project page for planned updates.

If you want to request a feature, open an issue.

spacexlaunchbot's Issues

Database restart causes issues

Bug:

• Postgres was restarted with SLB still running, SLB seemed to successfully reconnect but the start_db_counts_loop appears to have hung at some point, not finishing but also not inserting anything else into the db until SLB was restarted.

Cause:

• Restarting Postgres independently to restarting SLB

Fix:

• Identify what caused the hang (if it was hanging, if not, whatever happened) and fix it!

Notes:

• asyncpg's connection pools handle reconnection automatically, so it probably wasn't something like not having a connection at all
• Test out restarting pg and see if the bug can be recreated
• After some more investigation it seems possible that the database was restarted during a call to ds.update_counts

Enable subscribing a channel to specific notification types

eg: slb addchannel schedule slb addchannel launch

Tracking: https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceXLaunchBot/projects/1#card-27467623

Move To Launch Library 2 API

SpaceX-API seems to be struggling with updating data, and has announced it's probably going to start winding down it's services at some point in the future. LL2 seems like the best option to move to (as reccomended by the SpaceX-API dev).

Add an option for the bot to tag a role when a launch notification message sends

"we were wondering if you were ever planning on adding an option for the bot to @here or @everyone or @ roles group when the webcast goes live.

I would love the ability to set up a group that the bot can ping when the stream goes live"

can this be self hosted?

and how would I go about doing it? i see theres a docker deploy repo, but i use a raspberry pi.

looks like everything thats needed is in the directories. whats the difference between spacexlaunchbot/ and spacexlaunchbot/spacexlaunchbot/ ?

Error when deploying

When trying to deploy a python TypeError occurs. Below is the log.

2020-05-27 12:30:10,218 : INFO : discordclient : __init__ : Client initialised Traceback (most recent call last): File "./spacexlaunchbot/main.py", line 15, in <module> main() File "./spacexlaunchbot/main.py", line 10, in main client = discordclient.SpaceXLaunchBotClient() File "/opt/SpaceXLaunchBot/spacexlaunchbot/discordclient.py", line 25, in __init__ self.loop.add_signal_handler(signal.SIGTERM, self.shutdown) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/asyncio/unix_events.py", line 86, in add_signal_handler raise TypeError("coroutines cannot be used " TypeError: coroutines cannot be used with add_signal_handler()

Update to SpaceX API V4

SpaceX-API is deprecating the v3 route in September so all the related code needs to move over to the v4 schema

config and launch

where config the bot and what command to start it please ?
There are no informations about that.
Thanks