DiskFailureBot

Bot which sends blinking gifs when disks fail.

We wanted to have a Telegram bot which notifies everyone when one of the disks in a RAID dies. The idea came up to use a stock image of the server and simulate the broken disk blinking light.

Setup

• Install dependencies

apt install python python-pip python-opencv imagemagick ffmpeg
pip install python-telegram-bot

• Edit config.json
• Find a good stock photo of your server
• Add disk LED coordinates to gifgen.py
• Run the bot using python telegram_bot.py

Commands

• /status retrieve the current status of all disks
• /demo get a demo gif with randomly broken disks (it needs some way of showing off its coolness, even when all disks are operational)

Examples