Rocketry-Bot

A discord bot for administrative and notification purposes.

Features

• Features can be disabled individually

Member Database

• Creates and manages names and automatically assigns the aspiring member role once they have submitted their name and rose-hulman email address.

Attendance Taking

• Based on the Google Calendar (updated hourly) provided, it will create a message in channel to react to. This will automatically mark down the hours worked log for an hour (default) or special by an admin.

Search names for mentions

• In the event someone hasn't updated their profile to have their name, you can get a list of users with that name. It will not ping them from this command.

• This also manages the Active or Aspiring member status.

• If the member has not submitted attendance for a quarter they will be demoted to Aspiring member.

• This rule does not apply to admin.

Launch Day Alerts

• When a launch day is coming up or arrived, a generated report for drive time, weather, and other information will be sent in announcements.

USLI Project Alerts

• Reminds us of upcoming due dates for USLI reports.

Special Rocketry Commands

• Motor class conversion. /classconvert [newton-seconds]
• Fire cabinent explosive power. /explosive_cabinent

Under the Hood

There are two main programs this bot needs to work correctly.

1. The database/web host
2. The bot system itself.

Database and Webhost

This is what stores the member database and how we can more granularly manage the bot without having to resort to commands (useful for debugging). The front end does not matter much.

Technologies expected to use:

• Django
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

Discord Bot System

Technologies expected to use:

• Discord.py
• Asnycio

Repository Management

This repository is built using Docker and Remote-Containers. This way the environment can be shipped to whatever computer we decide to host the project on.

What Do I Need?

First you need to install Docker/Docker Desktop. Visit Docker and follow the links to install. Second, I would make sure that you have an up-to-date Visual Studio Code with the following extensions:

• Remote Development (Pack)
• Docker
• Python (Pack) Third to make source control easier, I use GitHub Desktop.

FAQ

Questions I think I might be asked a lot, for now.

How do I switch between working on the web service and the bot?

In .devcontainer, there is a devcontainer.json. In one of the fields, there is a field called service, which you can set to either bot and app.

Why are there so many containers?

Having the bot separated from the platform that controls it, we can have more reliability.