About

Simple discord bot that will serve the need to show info about the cs server with the command ++acfun.

Initial setup of project

Repo link

Setup discord.js with Typescript

ESLint Typescript

Use ESLint with TypeScript

Use Prettier with ESLint and TypeScript in VSCode

For your changes to take effect, use

npm run build
npm run start

Discord bot guides

Docs

Guide

Steam master server quering

Master Server Query Protocol

Server queries

Game dig

Hosting

Get NodeJS (Option 3)

    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
    source ~/.bashrc
    nvm list-remote
    nvm install v16.15.1
    node -v

nvm list - shows the currently active version on the first line

You can switch between installed versions with nvm use

nvm use v16.15.1

The correct version of Node is installed on our machine as we expected. A compatible version of npm is also available.

Setup bot

su steam
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Arxero/mavbot.git

Give fle permission to the folder you are in, first go in the parent folder of mavbot

sudo chmod -R 777 mavbot/

Install npm packages

cd mavbot
npm i

Run bot This will make dist folder from which actual js files will be executed. You would need to run it (then stop it, just to recompile the new changes into js files) everytime when you do git pull/update the bot form the repo.

npm run build

Create .env file with the bot secrets

nano .env

Start the bot and logged in the discord server

npm run start

Run thge bot in the background with Screen

List screen sessions

screen -ls

Create new screen session named mavbot

cd mavbot
screen -A -m -d -S mavbot npm run start

or

cd mavbot && screen -A -m -d -S mavbot npm run start

Kill mavbot session

screen -X -S mavbot kill

Reattach to the screen session by typing

screen -r mavbot

Use the key sequence Ctrl-a + Ctrl-d to detach from the screen session.

Update with new version

cd mavbot
git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master
git pull
git build
screen -A -m -d -S mavbot npm run start

Startup script

1. Create start.sh file in the home directory for example

    cd /home/steam
    sudo nano mavbot.sh
   

2. Give start.sh file permissions to be executable

     sudo chmod +x mavbot.sh
   

3. Update mavbot.sh with the following:

screen -X -S mavbot kill
cd /home/steam/mavbot
screen -A -m -d -S mavbot npm run start
echo "==========Mavbot has been booted=========="

4. Run mavbot.sh script on system startup

Run a Script on Startup in Linux

Using cron

First login as the user you want to execute the script from, then open crontab and add the required line at the bottom of the file

crontab -e
@reboot sh /home/steam/mavbot.sh

Using service

cd /etc/systemd/system
sudo nano mavbot.service

[Unit]
Description=Reboots Mavbot.  

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/steam/mavbot.sh           

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/mavbot.service
sudo systemctl enable mavbot.service

Update npm packages

1. Use npm-check-updates

• to see updatable packages

    ncu
  

• to update them

    ncu -u
  

Kill Mavbot process

• htop

• F4

• search for it and copy PID

• exit and use

    kill -9 PID
  

• where PID is the id you copied from htop

Fix (for column) Incorrect string value: '\xD0\x92\xD1\x96\xD0\xBA...'

• SHOW CREATE TABLE mavbot.player_sessions;

    ALTER TABLE mavbot.player_sessions CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
  

How to Add arial font to Ubuntu - related ot canvas service

sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
sudo fc-cache -f

in a terminal.

After that, check with

fc-match Arial

PM2 notes

Start the process

Navigate to the directory where your application is located and run the following command:

pm2 start npm --name "mavbot" -- start

List running pm2 processes

pm2 list

Stop a process

pm2 stop <app_name|app_id>

Restart a process:

pm2 restart <app_name|app_id>