Super Chemex Bot ☕️🤖

Our friendly bot-overlord notifying people when there is freshly brewed coffee in the kitchen. You can read the story of how this bot came be on our blog.

Super Chemex Bot is a Slack app that posts a message in channel when an AWS IoT button is pressed.

This is a simplified version for Slack Spec and does not support multiple floors. If you want the full version check out the main repository.

Setup

Super Chemex Bot is only a small piece of code but requires a bit of configuration to get running. Follow these steps to get it set up.

Clone this repository
cd into the lambda directory and run npm install (or yarn install).
First Create a Slack app
Go to the Slack app wizard. Give your app a name and select a workspace.
Give the app the scope chat:write:bot
Install the app to your team.
Time to set up the button
- Configure your button by following the AWS tutorial
- Choose to create an AWS Lambda function that is triggered by your button
- Add four environment variables to the Lambda function: SLACK_API_TOKEN, CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN, CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID, SLACK_CHANNEL
- For CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID use zsfvbjpz370n
- For CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN use 818d5407df70dce9750c9f6b0e5dbaa501357998783b51e8d5a8891b2345ea8a
- Install and configure the AWS cli.
- Navigate to the project root folder and run ./deploy.sh <function-name>
Press the button to see a message appear. 🎉

Bonus step:

If you want to modify the messages, sign up for Contentful if you haven't already.

Follow the instructions to create a personal access token
Execute ./setup-space.js --management-token <your-personal-access-token>
Create an API key for your new space
Switch out the values CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN and CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID environments variables with your new credentials.

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Super Chemex Bot ☕️🤖

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