send automatically a message, on startup or later

[pierreHOH]

I would like to use koutchat to send an "automatic" message from a system, but the console mode does not accept a message as an argument because he can't be sent before the user is connected.

Capability to give a message as an argument which will be sent once the user is connected could be useful for this goal.

[blurpy]

That is bit specialized. Are you just going to use this in an automated fashion? If that is the case then you can script what you want like I'm doing here:

https://github.com/blurpy/kouchat/blob/master/src/test/java/net/usikkert/kouchat/functional/HitchhikerTest.java

[pierreHOH]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

To explain you a little bit what I want to do, I have a a motorized automatic roof on an astronomy observatory. In order to check if the roof can be closed or not, I check various sensors. According to the result, and especially if a problem occurs, I would like to send a message on my phone.

As I don't know by advance the IP adress of the phone, I can't use simple communication TCP ways and I don't want to develop an android application to publish the IP adress on a server, then read the server before to communicate, etc... (a big labyrinth just for a notification :-)) A mail is not a very good solution because less reactive than a chat solution.

So your good tool with the "test" script seems to match with this need. Thus, the sensor checking is already coded in Java. I'm not a very good developer in Java but I should find how your test code works (especially with comments). I will work about this as soon as possible and I will let you know.

Thank you.

Le dim. 8 janv. 2023 à 13:19, Christian Ihle @.***> a écrit :

That is bit specialized. Are you just going to use this in an automated fashion? If that is the case then you can script what you want like I'm doing here:

https://github.com/blurpy/kouchat/blob/master/src/test/java/net/usikkert/kouchat/functional/HitchhikerTest.java

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[blurpy]

That sounds pretty cool, please let me know how it works out.

You can find more examples of scripting a KouChat client in the integration tests for the Android app: https://github.com/blurpy/kouchat-android/tree/master/app/src/androidTest/java/net/usikkert/kouchat/android