Subj : Discord webhook integration
To   : All
From : Hunter-Z
Date : Sun Oct 24 2021 08:59 am

  Re: Discord webook integration
  By: Hunter-Z to All on Sat Oct 23 2021 07:27 pm

(oops, typo in subject that I can't seem to edit - meant to say "webhook")

Update: Got everything working that I wanted to do, via a plethora of different hacks. Below is info on the additional pieces I implemented since my initial post.

BBS down:

I found a tool called something like Bill2's Process Monitor that can monitor processes and take various actions. I configured this to run a "BBS down" notification script when Synchronet's process goes away.

This works great, except it doesn't seem to fire fast enough when the whole VM is shutting down / rebooting, so I also added a call to the notification script as a shutdown entry in WinXP's group policy editor.

External program run:

Turns out that Synchronet's modopts.ini allows you to define optional script hooks for when a user enters and exits an external program. This is great, and I wish there were either more of these, or more event triggers in the config utility (it's weird that both solutions coexist, but better than having no options at all!).

I wasn't able to make heads or tails of the wiki documentation on js.exec() regarding passing of parameters (which is how I tell my webhook script what to post to Discord), but I found an example of doing it via load() that works fine.

Summary:

In the end, it feels pretty hacky that I'm using no less than 5 different ways to trigger events (fixed events in SBBS config, "timed" even in SBBS config, modopts.ini script hooks, external process monitor, Windows group policy). It would be ideal for Synchronet to provide a unified means to implement triggers for all of these cases, but it is what it is, and at least I accomplished my goals!

- Ben S. / HunterZ

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