configuring-playbook-bot-honoroit.md

Setting up Honoroit (optional)

The playbook can install and configure Honoroit for you.

It's a bot you can use to setup your own helpdesk on matrix

See the project's documentation to learn what it does with screenshots and why it might be useful to you.

Registering the bot user

By default, the playbook will set up the bot with a username like this: @honoroit:DOMAIN.

(to use a different username, adjust the matrix_bot_honoroit_login variable).

You need to register the bot user manually before setting up the bot. You can use the playbook to register a new user:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --extra-vars='username=honoroit password=PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT admin=no' --tags=register-user

Choose a strong password for the bot. You can generate a good password with a command like this: pwgen -s 64 1.

Adjusting the playbook configuration

Add the following configuration to your inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml file:

matrix_bot_honoroit_enabled: true

# Adjust this to whatever password you chose when registering the bot user
matrix_bot_honoroit_password: PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT

# Adjust this to your room ID
matrix_bot_honoroit_roomid: "!yourRoomID:DOMAIN"

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run the installation command again:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,start

Usage

To use the bot, invite the @honoroit:DOMAIN to the room you specified in config, after that any matrix user can send a message to the @honoroit:DOMAIN to start a new thread in that room.

Send !ho help to the room to see the bot's help menu for additional commands.

You can also refer to the upstream documentation.