autoslack

Nugget's Autoslack

This is a little service I run on my machine that updates my Slack status to reflect whenever I am in a Highfive video call. Published on principle, and this should be easy enough to hack for your own use, but this really is just an "itch scratching" tool. I built it because I wanted it. If it's useful for you, even better.

PRs happily accepted.

Configuration (Zoom)

• If you want to update your status whenever the Zoom client is running locally, you should trigger on the zoom.us process name. If you only want your status updated when you are actively on a Zoom call, you should trigger on the CptHost process name. Both process names are in the sample config file and you probably only want one of them.

Installation

• cp config.json.example config.json
• Edit config.json to taste
• make install
• put this in your user crontab:

  @reboot $HOME/bin/autoslack_launch
  

The autolaunch script expects tmux to be installed. That's not needed for the service itself, but just how I chose to wrap it.