Bot Reference

Test message response to verify bot connectivity and functionality.

Response: Confirms message receipt with connection information.

Simple ping/pong to test bot responsiveness.

Response: Pong!

Show available commands or get detailed help for a specific command.

Greeting response. Also responds to hi, hey, howdy, and greetings.

List all available commands in compact format.

Share the bot's own contact card so you can add it and send DMs without waiting for an advert.

Show the bot's current software version.

Show current bot and radio status details — connection info and health summary.

List and manage hashtag channels on the MeshCore network.

Get weather information for a US zip code using NOAA data. Includes current conditions, tonight/tomorrow forecast, and active weather alerts.

Global weather for any location worldwide using Open-Meteo. Includes temperature, feels-like, wind, humidity, dew point, visibility, pressure, and forecast.

Air Quality Index for a location. Returns US AQI, European AQI (if available), pollutant concentrations, and health recommendations.

Minute-level precipitation nowcast — tells you when rain or snow is about to start or stop in the next two hours, worldwide, no API key required.

Aircraft tracking via ADS-B. overhead returns the single closest aircraft above you.

Sunrise, sunset, day length, and solar noon for the bot's configured location.

Moon phase, moonrise/moonset times, and illumination percentage for the bot's configured location.

Aurora visibility forecast for configured or provided coordinates.

Solar conditions and HF band status — flux, sunspot number, A/K-index, and band conditions (Open / Marginal / Closed).

Solar panel production forecast for a location. Optionally specify panel size, azimuth, and tilt angle.

HF band conditions for amateur radio — band status, solar flux, A/K-index, and propagation conditions.

Upcoming satellite passes for a NORAD ID or shortcut. Add visual for visual-only passes.

Active emergency incidents for a location — type, description, agency, time, and severity. Add all to show every incident.

Roll dice with any configuration.

Roll a random number. Default range is 1–100.

Ask the Magic 8-Ball a yes/no question.

Random joke, optionally from a category like programming or pun.

Random dad joke from icanhazdadjoke.com.

Responds to Linux/Unix commands (sudo, ls -l, grep, rm -rf, etc.) with supervillain mainframe error messages.

Get a random cat fact.

Current scores for configured teams or a league.

FIFA World Cup scores and schedule — active only while a tournament is in progress (auto-detected).

Decode and display the full routing path your message took through the mesh network, including all intermediate nodes.

trace sends a link trace along a given path. tracer builds a round-trip path so the bot's radio hears the return. Both use your message's incoming path when no path is specified.

Look up repeaters by two-character prefix. Use prefix free to see available prefixes.

Bot usage statistics for the past 24 hours.

Listen for 6 seconds and collect all unique routing paths from incoming messages.

Manage repeater contacts and contact list capacity. Handles scanning, listing, purging, and auto-management of the device's contact table.

Send a network flood advert to announce the bot's presence. 1-hour cooldown between uses.

Reload supported runtime configuration without restarting the bot. Connection/radio settings still require a process restart.

Temporarily pause or resume bot responses on public channels. DMs continue to work while paused.

Show greeter behavior and configuration guidance.

Manage RSS and API feed subscriptions posted to mesh channels.

Manage announcement ACL and related settings.

View configured scheduled messages and advert interval.

Manage the web viewer integration — check status, reset the circuit breaker, or restart the process.