ausgridbot

AusGridBot

This is a bot that reads electricity pricing information from AEMO's API and posts interesting things to Mastodon. There is one per Australian state participating in the National Energy Market:

• https://howse.social/@nswgridbot
• https://howse.social/@vicgridbot
• https://howse.social/@tasgridbot
• https://howse.social/@sagridbot
• https://howse.social/@qldgridbot

Hosting

This repo is set up to be run on a fly.io instance to make self-hosting easy. The basic free account is good enough for this purpose.

The bring-up process is pretty trivial:

1. Install git and flyctl
    `sudo apt install git`
    `curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh`
2. Clone this repo
    `git clone git@github.com:tjhowse/bomgifbot.git`
3. `flyctl auth signup`
4. Set the config in the `env` section of `fly.toml`
5. `flyctl launch`
6. Set all the secrets listed in secrets.toml.template
    `flyctl secrets set MASTODON_CLIENT_ID=<your client id> MASTODON_CLIENT_SECRET=<your client secret>`, etc
7. `flyctl deploy`

To pause the app, run flyctl scale count 0. To resume, run flyctl deploy. There might be steps missing here. I wrote this post-hoc.

Configuration

Example GridBot credentials json

[
    {
        "RegionID": "QLD1",
        "MastodonClientID": "clientid",
        "MastodonClientSecret": "clientsecret",
        "MastodonUserEmail": "useremail",
        "MastodonUserPassword": "userpassword"
    },
    {
        "RegionID": "NSW1",
        "MastodonClientID": "clientid",
        "MastodonClientSecret": "clientsecret",
        "MastodonUserEmail": "useremail",
        "MastodonUserPassword": "userpassword"
    }
]