Introducing FoxBot

If a fox was a robot it would be fantastic. This is your very own personal robot, because you are fantastic. FoxBot is your AI-free personal assistant, diligently doing your chores in the background and letting you know about things important to you.

What Can It Do?

• Poll your RSS feeds and notify you of relvent topics
• Detect changes to websites you care about
• Daily reminders throughout the day about things to be mindful of, like drinking water
• Countdown timers

How Do I Run It?

You can run this wherever you like. Just download the appropriate binary from here.

Using Docker

docker pull antfie/foxbot
docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/app" antfie/foxbot

What Does It Look Like?

In the console you would see something like this:

However FoxBot really shines when you use it as a Slack bot:

How Do I Configure It?

There is a config.yaml file which will be generated on first run.

How Can I Support This?

I welcome bug reports, fixes, features and donations to keep this going.

Premium Features

If you need custom features, integrations or support we can help. Just email us at [email protected]. We currently have the following premium feature availables:

• Monitoring share prices with buy/sell notifications

Backlog

The following is a non-commital list of items we want to work through:

• Document how to deploy to Raspberry Pi
• Document the configuration file
• Speed test functionality, ping, ICMP
• Reduce noises and notifications at night when sleeping
• Consider daily summaries instead of regular updates
• Solar panel monitoring
• Weather
• Home automation?

Credits

FotBot was created by Anthony Fielding. Alert sounds by Material Design (Google), which are licenced under CC-BY 4.0.