E.V.E Bot

E.V.E is a voice enabled all in one discord bot. Feel free to host your own instance!

If you are a developer and wish to contribute / customize E.V.E, check out the wiki!

Table of Contents

• Features
• Usage
• Installation
• Configurations
• Troubleshooting
• Support
• License

Features

• Play music!
• Start a custom radio!
• Clip or recite voice channel activity!
• Say anything you want with the bot!
• And much more!

Usage

1. Add the bot to your Discord Server
   • Once the bot has been started (see here), add it through the Discord Developer Portal
2. Use the ?help command to see the various command groups
   • Use the ?help command with a command name or group to see the command details (e.g ?help play)
3. Say one of the provided hotwords to start a voice command (Alexa, Hey Siri, and OK Google)
   • Wait for the chime to start saying your command
   • Don't worry about other people interrupting you

Installation

The installation process for E.V.E is quite long due to all the different services it requires.

These steps are if you wish to run the bot on your local machine (i.e. PC, laptop). E.V.E runs on macOS and Linux (Windows has not been tested).

Pre Installation

1. Retrieve all the required / desired tokens
2. Install the following external dependencies
   • ffmpeg
   • lame (pre-installed on macOS)
   • node / npm (node >=12.0.0)
3. Set up the environment variables and api tokens
   • Set up a json file with the key value pairs
   • An example can be found in example_keys.json
   • Environment variables can be used instead of a json file

Installation from NPM

1. Install the package (npm install -g evebot)
2. Start the bot using evebot <path to keys.json> (e.g evebot ~/Documents/keys.json)

Installation From Source

1. Clone / Download the git repository (git clone git@github.com:henrymxu/evebot.git)
2. Copy the json file you created above into the evebot directory
   • Rename this file to be keys.json
3. Inside a terminal, navigate to the newly cloned evebot directory
4. Install TypeScript (npm install -g typescript) and ts-node (npm install -g ts-node)
5. Install the dependencies using npm install
6. Start the bot using npm start

Local Installation with Docker

// TODO

Heroku Deployment

// TODO

Environment Variables

Name	Environment Variable	Description	Required
Bot Environment	bot_environment	Informs the bot to use either 'development' or 'production' settings. Defaults to development.	✗
Youtube Cookie	youtube_cookie	Required for the bot to bypass Youtube 429 Errors (Too many requests).	✗

General API Tokens

Name	Environment Variable	Description	Required
Discord Bot Token	discord_token	Required for the bot to login and communicate with discord.	✓
Youtube Search API Token	youtube_api_token	Required for the bot to search for song URLs (Hopefully this will be converted to a scraper).	✓
Genius API Token	genius_token	Required for the bot to find lyrics of songs.	✗
Spotify API Tokens	spotify_id	Required for the bot to create radio playlists, search albums and playlists.	✗
	spotify_secret		✗

Platform API Tokens

Details on how to authenticate and configure each provider can be found in each of their individual sections.

Summary

Name	Speech-to-Text	Text-to-Speech	Cloud Storage
IBM Watson	✓	✓	✗
Microsoft Azure	✓	✓	✗
Google Cloud	✓	✓	✗
Amazon Web Services	✗	✗	✓

IBM Watson

Environment Variable	Description
watson_token	API Key
watson_url	URL

Microsoft Azure

Environment Variable	Description
microsoft_token	KEY
microsoft_location	LOCATION (e.g eastus)

Google Cloud

Environment Variable	Description
google_keyFileCred	Contents of the Google Cloud JSON Credentials File

Amazon Web Services

Environment Variable	Description
AWS_REGION	AWS Region
AWS_ENDPOINT	Endpoint
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	Access Key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	Secret Access Key

Configurations

Troubleshooting

• The bot doesn't seem to recognize your voice commands

  • Wait until you hear the chime from the bot after saying the hotword to begin your voice command
  • Make sure the voice command doesn't get cut off by the ending chime

• The bot seems to be unresponsive or not listening to any hotwords

  • Try using the rejoin command

• The bot is unable to find any songs to play

  • Try adding / updating the youtube_cookie to the bot

Support

• Feel free to create an issue on GitHub if there are any problems installing or using E.V.E!

License

This repository is licensed under Apache 2.0. You may host an instance of this bot for non-commercial and personal use free of charge.