Jabber Bots

Sunday, June 12, 2005 by darco
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I've been getting really into Jabber and XMPP lately–to the point where I am starting to plan out what contributions I can make to the platform. I seem to be coming up with new ideas for it every day, and every once and a while I get around to implementing some of them. For example, over the past two days I created two new jabber bots: one bot is for my DVR, and the other is for my CallerID.

NOTE: This is a rather old post, and for some reason planet jabber keeps throwing my old posts to the top of the list every time I clean things up. Sorry for the confusion!

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Both bots look just like anyone else on my buddy list, except that they have rather a rather descriptive status message and have other functionality. The DVR bot shows in its status message what it is currently doing, what show is going to record next, and how much free space is left on the hard drive. The CallerID bot shows the last person who called in the status message, and will pop up an IM whenever someone calls–letting me know when someone is trying to get ahold of me wherever I am.

The next step I suppose would be to integrate voice chat into the CallerID bot so that it would try to initiate a voice chat connection and allow me to answer the phone from my laptop wherever I am. That would be wicked. It would also be quite a task, so it will likely be a long time before I get around to that.

I will likely open-source these bots at some point in the future when they get a bit more functionality (such as the ability to schedule/clear recordings, drop calls, etc.). Nothing speeds up this process more than feedback. (hint, hint)


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6 Comments for “Jabber Bots”

  1. Will Perone Will Perone Says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2005

    After reading about Jabber, the idea seemed logical and very cool but I then realized that Trillian Pro supports Jabber, Bonjour and Skype (Trillian Basic doesn't). I will have to test this feature out.

  2. def Says:
    Wednesday, June 28, 2006

    Hay, Sounds really neat :)

    What language did you create your bots in?

    Cheers, Cool blog,

    David

  3. darco* Says:
    Wednesday, August 16, 2006

    Perl.

  4. grimsy Says:
    Tuesday, June 26, 2007

    Sounds good. I'd love to see these open-sourced :)

  5. foehammer* Says:
    Thursday, June 26, 2008

    I too would love to see these open-sourced! I'd love to attempt to adapt one to run Automator actions to easier facilitate network/computer maintenance!

  6. Siddharth Says:
    Monday, September 1, 2008

    Hey, I also want to host a jabber bot. Where do you host your jabber bot?

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