tvergara / slackgroovy

Groovy Slack Bot

Web application in Flask designed to run in a raspberry pi in the Examedi office. Groovy listens for Slack messages to queue YouTube videos in the office's chromecast.

Set up

First, you must install all dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

To use in a development environment, you must install and set ngrok from here.

To use in a production enviroment, you must install pagekite. You can install it by:

curl -O https://pagekite.net/pk/pagekite.py

Start

In development, you can use:

FLASK_APP=main.py flask run

And in another terminal, run:

cd ~
./ngrok http 5000

Then set the ngrok url in the slack bot's event subscriptions url.

In production, you can simply run:

bash init.sh