Is there a hubot command to see who's in the channel? - hubot

I want a list of all of the people in the current channel.
How can I get this with hubot?

At least you can try channellist_item in IRC API, it states
Emitted for each channel the server returns. The channel_info object
contains keys ‘name’, ‘users’ (number of users on the channel), and
‘topic’.

No - it seems that it's not possible. The best hubot can do is track as people enter and leave the channel, but there's no simple command to get all current people.

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telegram use schedule message

I want to schedule a telegram bot message to be sent at a specific unixtime.
As from telegrams official api (https://core.telegram.org/api/scheduled-messages) that should be possible by setting the schedule_date flag.
To schedule a message, simply provide a future unixtime in the schedule_date flag of messages.sendMessage or messages.sendMedia.
However I was not able to set that flag. To be more precisely, I do not even know how to set a flag, or if I am using the correct api.
What I have tried is to use the api directly via the browser (could use curl as well) like so: https://api.telegram.org/botBOT:TOKEN/sendMessage?chat_id=ID&text=Test&schedule_date=1653503351
I also did not find any way to access this flag via https://pypi.org/project/pyTelegramBotAPI/#description https://telepot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#send-a-message, nor https://github.com/nickoala/telepot.
I want to implement this feature in a python environment, but any working suggestion would be much appreciated.
EDIT:
I decided to save the intention to send a telegram bot message at a certain unixtime in a database. I then create an infinite loop that checks if there are any unsent messages before the current timestamp. If the loop detects such a message it sends the message and sets a flag, that that message has been sent.
And as promised, here is a fully dockerized example of that behaviour in action: https://github.com/Sokrates1989/nameTheCountDown-lightweight
It creates a bot that you can pass a name and the duration. Once the duration has passed it sends a message with the passed name. Basically a simple countdown that you can give several names, that run simltaniously. As it is a telegram chat, you can modify the way you are informed about the end of a countdown by modifying the notificaiton of that chat.
And here is the Bot in action: http://t.me/NameTheCountdownBot
We can't do this by bot API itself, and there's no schedule_date parameter in sendMessage method:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage
And what you've read is for Telegram clients, not bot API consumers.
If you don't really need unixtime, you can simply create a table for scheduled messages with a text, chat_id and a publish_time column (like 22:15), and run a command every minute to look if there's a message for current time to send. Then send the message and delete the record.
Note that the python-telegram-bot library has a built-in solution for scheduling tasks: The JobQueue. This feature is based on the APScheduler library, which you can ofc also use without python-telegram-bot.
Disclaimer: I'm currently the maintainer of python-telegram-bot.
https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.sendScheduledMessages
Now you can send scheduled messages right away

Asterisk how to detect out of service and mailbox

In my context, I need to detect different call status in Asterisk, including out of service (e.g., phone is turned off) and the phone is directed to voice mailbox.
However, there are no such statues correspondingly in call DIALSTATUS. Why does it happen? Is there a walk-around?
Thank you in advance.
You have read about extensions states and hints
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Extension+State+and+Hints
Also you may check SIPPEER function which have info about current sip peer state.
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Function_SIPPEER
Also see the DEVICE_STATE function: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Function_DEVICE_STATE

can i get more granular ami events for app_fax?

When sending a fax using spandsp/asterisk/app_fax, it would really be nice to see more granular status events being fired.
Right now, it just looks like AMI events are fired when the call is started and when the call finishes. I'm looking to get more detailed info like "DIALING", "SENDING PAGE 1", etc.
Is there a way (either using the AMI or another method) to get this information?
I know it definitely exists somewhere, as I can see DEBUG statements with this information in the logs. I can't (and don't want to) parse the log files, as the DEBUG statements don't really say which call they relate to.
Thanks!
no
but nojee fax project did special patch for app_fax.c to give more verbosity.
probably u can create patch for app_fax.c to show needed info.

Initiate an outgoing call with Asterisk

I have a database where one entry is structured like so:
number_to_call date file_to_play
Using asterisk, I need to do the following:
1. Check the database daily.
2. If date matches that of today's, then initiate call on number.
3. Once phone has been picked up, play file_to_play.
Some general pointers on how I even begin to do this would be great.
Most of the applications that I have written so far have worked on incoming calls. I have the following questions:
1. How do I write a "daemon" that will check the database? Asterisk should have both user and group privileges for it to execute properly. How do I do this?
2. Can I initiate an outgoing call from outside of the asterisk dialplan?
The calls are being made to a PSTN/mobile number.
You can Write any script Which can check DB on daily basis and once it maches the date range you can initiate a call using .call files.
Please study asterisk auto-dial out from voip-info.org - I think you can understand better then.
You can run your script for same user as asterisk runs there is also one more method to initiate call from linux which we can call Originate CLI command which can also refer to http://voip-info.org/.
In general it is not a great idea to write your own dialer, unless your volume is very very low. Where I work, we started rolling our own but at the end went with a commercial solution that handled most of the logic. There are a number of commercial and free solutions out there, so don't reinvent the wheel.
See my answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11666755/outbound-dialer-using-asterisk/14589901#14589901 for why it is not a good idea to roll your own.

How can I set triggers for sendmail?

If my email id receives an email from a particular sender, can I ask sendmail to trigger a different program and pass on the newly arrived email to it for further processing? This is similar to filters in gmail. Wait for some email to arrive, see if it matches the criteria and take some action if it does.
This is what Procmail is for.
Set Sendmail up to use procmail as the mail delivery agent (MDA), or set up your .forward to pipe stuff through procmail. (See the man page.)
Then you can write your .procmailrc to do all sorts of things along these lines.
This filter predates gmail. Still useful if you're running a mail server.
are you talking about email clients? If so then you can set rules in outlook and I am sure there mustbe ways in other email cleints too!! If u are asking something else. sorry
ok. then I suggest Colins method.. I use cron to monitor emails (for a particluar domain) and send text messages as alerts!. Similar to what you are asking!
We handle this by having a cron process running on the mail server which watches the inbox directory and scans any new messages (files) every 10 minutes or so.
When the process finds an email of interest, it fires the information off to another process which then reacts to the new message (and, in our case, removes the message from the inbox).
--edit--
Finding the email inbox depends on your implementation - check the 'manual' your version of sendmail for details - we direct incoming email to a special directory or have parameters to work out the inbox details. I don't feel it would be useful to be more specific as the answer to 'where is the inbox' is 'it depends'.
As for the pattern to search for - we decode the email message (a text file) into a DOM that we can manipulate. For example, we can then look for specific words in property 'subject'.

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