Rocket.Chat

Connect it

Your assistant gets a bot user on your Rocket.Chat server. In Conch, open Apps, choose Talk to me here, then Rocket.Chat.

1. Make a bot user and its token. In Rocket.Chat, open Administration → Users → New user. Conch suggests the username and name. Give it the bot role and save. Then, signed in as that user, open Profile → Personal Access Tokens, turn on Ignore Two Factor Authentication, and add a token. Copy the token and the user id it shows: they're shown once.
2. Paste the address, the user id and the token. The address is the one you open Rocket.Chat at, like https://chat.example.com. Conch checks them with your server and connects. There is no Save button.
3. Say hello. In Rocket.Chat, start a direct message with the bot and send it anything. Then press That's me in Conch.

Your first hello

Once Conch knows it's you, the bot greets you by name.

Good to know

• No public address. Conch connects to your server from this computer, over Rocket.Chat's own realtime connection, so your server only has to be reachable from here.
• Answers keep their formatting: Rocket.Chat writes Markdown, as Conch does.
• Approvals come with numbered answers: reply with the number.
• In a channel, add the bot to it. When someone mentions it, the channel shows on its page in Conch, off. Turn it on there, and it answers whoever mentions it: you as in private, everyone else in words only. See In a group.
• A token that stops working stops this channel only. Make a new one for the bot and paste it.