Ringing Room Bot

A bot for Ringing Room that can fill in any set of bells to increase the scope of potential practices.

This bot is designed to be a 'ninja helper with no ego'.

It will ring all unassigned bells perfectly whilst fitting in with whatever you are doing, adjusting to your changes in rhythm. It will never try to take control of the ringing by giving instructions or powering on with a different rhythm to everyone else (unless you tell it to). However, by default it will adjust only to changes to overall rhythm - it will ignore individual bells holding up and ring in the 'right' place regardless.

Only one ringer needs to run the command and it will ring with you after anyone calls Look to in Ringing Room. It will understand all Ringing Room calls - Go, Look to, That's all and Stand next will take effect the handstroke after they are called, and Bob and Single will result in 14 and 1234 lead end calls.

Notable features

• Configurable rhythm detection that updates in real time
• Automatic correction for Ringing Room using multiple server URLs for load balancing
• Very light resource footprint, as it doesn't interact with a browser to communicate with Ringing Room

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! See here for guidance.

If you have any issues/suggestions, either make an issue, or drop me a message on Facebook.

Quickstart

Installation (using Pip)

1. Run the following command to install or update to the latest version of the bot:

   pip3 install --upgrade rr-bot
   

   (use pip install --upgrade rr-bot on Windows).

2. Pick an example below to run the bot!

Examples

Run the bot with rr-bot [ARGS].

• Join a ringingroom.com tower with (9 digit) id [ID NUMBER] and ring Plain Bob Major (tower bell style - wait for Go and That's all):

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major"
  

• Make the bot ring 'up, down and in' rather than waiting for 'go':

  rr-bot --up-down-in --id [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major"
  # or
  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] -u --method "Plain Bob Major"
  

• Make the bot ring full handbell style, i.e. 'up, down and in' and standing at rounds (-H is equivalent to -us):

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --up-down-in --stop-at-rounds --method "Plain Bob Major"
  # or
  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] -us --method "Plain Bob Major"
  # or
  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] -H --method "Plain Bob Major"
  

• Join a server other than ringingroom.com:

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --url otherserver.com --method [METHOD TITLE]
  

• Ring rows taken from a (public) composition from complib.org, in this case https://complib.org/composition/65034:

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --comp 65034
  

• Make the bot wait for people to ring rather than pushing on with the rhythm:

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major" --wait
  

• Make the bot completely ignore other users' changes in rhythm (useful if it's ringing most of the bells and you don't want it to randomly change speed when you make mistakes):

  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major" --inertia 1.0
  # or
  rr-bot [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major" -i 1.0
  

• Print a nice help string:

  rr-bot --help
  # or
  rr-bot -h