Elixir-v3 Node Updater

Automatically updates Elixir-v3 testnet node when a new version is released in the #validator-announcements channel in the Elixir Discord.

Setup

Follow the #validator-announcements channel and connect it to a channel in your own Discord server. If you don't know how to do this, Discord has a tutorial. Turn on developer mode (User Settings -> Advanced -> Developer mode) and right click and copy the channel ID of the channel you connected the announcements to.

If you aren't running an Elixir node yet, first set it up.

Then, create a Discord bot and copy the bot token (Guide).

Installation

git clone https://github.com/yilmof/elixir-node-updater.git
cd elixir-node-updater
pip install -r requirements.txt
mv .env.example .env

Paste your Discord bot token and the channel ID in the .env file.

Get the path of validator.env (Use pwd command) and replace /home/user/elixir/validator.env in the following command and run it while in the elixir-node-updater folder:

sed -i 's|/path/to/validator.env|/home/user/elixir/validator.env|' update_elixir.sh

Run the bot to test it:

python3 updater_bot.py

If you something like Bot has logged in as with your bot's name and don't see errors, ctrl + c out of it.

Usage

You can use screen or any other way you like to run the bot in the background but I like using PM2.

First install NodeJS, then install PM2.

cd elixir-node-updater
pm2 start updater_bot.py

After an update, the bot will send a message in the channel if it was succesful or any errors if it failed.

Logs

To check logs, cat bot.log or with PM2 pm2 logs