wheatley 0.4.0

A program that will ring any set of bells in Ringing Room.

Wheatley

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

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

He'll ring all unassigned bells perfectly whilst fitting in with whatever you are doing, adjusting to your changes in rhythm. He'll also never try to take control of the ringing by giving instructions or powering on with a different rhythm to everyone else (unless you tell him to).

Only one ringer needs to run the command and Wheatley will ring with you after anyone calls Look to in Ringing Room. He understands 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 (unless otherwise specified).

Notable features

• Configurable rhythm detection that updates in real time
• Holding up over people when they hesitate
• Automatic correction for Ringing Room using multiple server URLs for load balancing
• Very light resource footprint, as Wheatley 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 Wheatley:

   pip install --upgrade wheatley
   

2. Pick an example below to run Wheatley!

Examples

Run the bot with wheatley [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):

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method "Plain Bob Major"
  

• Ring 'up, down and in' rather than waiting for 'go':

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --use-up-down-in --method [METHOD TITLE]
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] -u --method [METHOD TITLE]
  

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

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --use-up-down-in --stop-at-rounds --method [METHOD TITLE]
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] -us --method [METHOD TITLE]
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] -H --method [METHOD TITLE]
  

• Join a server other than ringingroom.com:

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --url otherwebsite.com --method [METHOD TITLE]
  

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

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --comp 65034
  

• Ring at a peal speed of 3 hours 30 minutes (i.e. quite slowly):

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] --peal-speed 3h30
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] -S 3h30
  

• Make Wheatley push on with the rhythm rather than waiting for people to ring.

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] --keep-going
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] -k
  

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

  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] --inertia 1.0
  # or
  wheatley [ID NUMBER] --method [METHOD TITLE] -I 1.0
  

• Print a nice help string:

  wheatley --help
  # or
  wheatley -h