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2024-06-07
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UPDATE 2024-06-19
It seems I got it working. I've updated my .py files and added a script to call Botany and immediatly close it afterwards. This reads the visitors.json file and waters the plant.
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UPDATE 2024-06-12
It seems to work like a charm now. Not sure if it's because I changed something or not.
Anyway it's totally possible while tinkering with trying to call Botany from the watering script to force refresh the water status I caused it to stay open in the background and I'm not sure how to close it again - IF that is what happened...
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UPDATE 2024-06-10
My scripts do not seem to work. I don't fully seem to understand how the watering works.
I'll keep the post as a reference :)
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Since I'm new to this whole shared server thing I keep discovering new things.
One of the new things is Botany, a small game where you have to water a plant. It's also possible to visit and water someone else his plant.
I've seen gemlogs with a link to water the plant so obviously I wanted this too so my visitors can help keeping my plant alive.
Finding documentation on how to do this was pretty hard and I don't have enough developer experience (or time) to go over the entire code in the Github repo. I started tinkering and found several JSON files in the .botany folder in my home folder.
visitors.json seems to be a log of who visited your plant. After some experimenting it seems that it gets cleared from time to time. I suspect that this is when the app checks and then waters the plant and clears the log.
username_plant_data.json seems to be the status of the plant. It also appears not to be live, but rather a snapshot of the plant status.
username_plant.dat seems like a data file with your plant's actual data but does not seem to be easily readable.
I read that we could write server side scripts on gemini so I started in python. My python is pretty rusty since it's about 4 years ago I did anything with it so please don't judge. I'm also not a developer but rather a sysadmin with some scripting experience.
These scripts seem to work, but not a 100% of the time. I'm not sure whether it's because of browser caching or my logic is failing me.
Script to fetch and display my plant's status
#!/usr/bin/python3
import json
import time
from datetime import datetime
print("20 text/gemini",end="\r\n")
print("This is my plant. It stays alive by giving it water atleast once in 5 days. Please help me keeping it alive by watering it!")
plantFile = open('/home/mowlawner/.botany/mowlawner_plant_data.json')
plantData = json.load(plantFile)
lastWateredtime = datetime.fromtimestamp(plantData['last_watered'])
lastWaterTimeDiff = datetime.now() - lastWateredtime
lastWaterDaysAgo = lastWaterTimeDiff.days
lastWaterSecondsAgo = lastWaterTimeDiff.seconds
lastWaterHours = lastWaterSecondsAgo // 3600
lastWaterMinutes = (lastWaterSecondsAgo % 3600) // 60
lastWaterSeconds = lastWaterSecondsAgo % 60
print(f"'''")
print(f"Description: " + plantData['description'])
print(f"Age: " + plantData['age'])
print(f"Last watered: {lastWaterDaysAgo}d {lastWaterHours}h {lastWaterMinutes}m {lastWaterSeconds}s ago.")
print(f"Stage: " + plantData['stage'])
print(f"Generation: " + str(plantData['generation']))
print(f"Score: " + str(plantData['score']))
print(f"'''")
print(f" ")
print(f"=> waterplant.py 🪴💦Water my plant to keep it alive!")
print(f"=> index.gmi 🏠Back to my capsule")
plantFile.close()
Script to actually water my plant
#!/usr/bin/python3
import json
import time
import subprocess
print("20 text/gemini",end="\r\n")
visitorFilePath = '/home/mowlawner/.botany/visitors.json'
with open(visitorFilePath, 'r') as visitorFile:
visitors = json.load(visitorFile)
newVisitor = {
"user": "anonvisitor",
"timestamp": int(time.time())
}
if isinstance(visitors, list):
visitors.append(newVisitor)
else:
print(f"Error: JSON file is not an array")
exit(1)
with open(visitorFilePath, 'w') as visitorFile:
json.dump(visitors, visitorFile, indent=4)
print(f"Thanks for watering my plant")
print(f"=> myplant.py 🪴Back To My Plant")
print(f"=> index.gmi 🏠back to my capsule")
botanyscript = 'callbotany.py'
process = subprocess.Popen(['python', botanyscript],stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
Script to call Botany
import subprocess
import time
def run_target_script():
try:
process = subprocess.Popen(
['screen', '-dmS', 'botany_session', 'python', '/srv/botany/botany.py'],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
text=True
)
return process
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error starting target script: {e}")
return None
def send_keystrokes(process):
if process is None or process.stdin is None:
print("Invalid process. Exiting send_keystrokes.")
return
keys_to_send = ['6'] # List of keys to send
for key in keys_to_send:
try:
time.sleep(1) # Wait a second between keystrokes
process.stdin.write(key + '\n') # Send key to the target script
process.stdin.flush()
except BrokenPipeError:
print(f"BrokenPipeError: failed to send {key}")
break
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error sending key {key}: {e}")
break
def main():
process = run_target_script()
if process is None:
print("Failed to start the target script. Exiting.")
return
time.sleep(1) # Give the target script some time to start
send_keystrokes(process)
time.sleep(1) # Wait a bit to let the target script process the last input
try:
process.kill()
process.wait()
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error killing the process: {e}")
if process.stderr:
err_output = process.stderr.read()
if err_output:
print(f"Error output from target script: {err_output}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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