Kato Hubot Adapter

Description

The Kato Hubot adapter allows you to use Hubot in your Kato team.

Installation

Install Hubot (consult the Hubot documentation for more information):

$ sudo npm install -g yo generator-hubot

Create a new bot:

$ mkdir myhubot
$ cd myhubot
$ yo hubot

You will be asked which adapter to use, type kato.

Configuration

First, create a new Kato account for your bot. It’s best to create a new email address, eg. kato-bot@mycompany.com and invite this address to your Kato team. Verify the email and set a name for your bot in its new account (that name shows up when it posts a message).

Next, you will need to set some environment variables:

$ export HUBOT_KATO_LOGIN="katobot@mycompany.com"
$ export HUBOT_KATO_PASSWORD="5prz8OKty6"

Usage

Once that’s done, you can start Hubot with Kato as the adapter:

$ ./bin/hubot -a kato

Please ignore npm WARN and deprecated messages, they are generated by packages unrelated to the Kato adapter. You shoud be able to see your bot online in Kato just a few seconds after you ran this command.

Notes

The Kato addapter supports listening for commands in

• all unrestricted rooms
• restricted rooms, to which it has been explicitly added
• 1 on 1 chats with the bot itself

You can address your bot by beginning a message with its name, which defaults to Hubot. You can change this and also set an alias using the following additional environment vars:

$ export HUBOT_NAME="Frank"
$ export HUBOT_ALIAS="!"

Your bot should now reply to !ping with PONG.

The bot will not respond to itself.

Optional Logging

Log filename (the default is kato-hubot.log):

$ export HUBOT_KATO_LOG_FILE="path/filename.log"

Log level (one of error, debug, or info. Default is error):

$ export HUBOT_KATO_LOG_LEVEL="debug"

Copyright

Copyright © LeChat, Inc. See LICENSE for details.