An open, free and easy to self-host Telegram bot for wiki-like class, homework and notes scheduling.
Managing class schedlule may be repetative. A situation where 15-30 students manage their personal diaries and notebooks cooperating at most via a shared group chat is full of inconvinient, boring and repetative actions. I was not able to find a suitable solution for it, so I created WikiSchedule. It is a Telegram bot that takes the hastle of managing organizational and conspect papers and divides it into the amount of students in your class or group.
You will need a computer that will run 24/7 with active internet connection. You will not need a graphical enviroment or a window manager installed on it's operating system. A lightweight OS is recommended.
Possible options:
- Fedora Server No version for IA-32 processors
- Debian Supports most architectures, but finding an option right for your machine on their website might be challenging
- Alpine Linux Lightest of them all, but dual-boot may be challenging and some users reported it being slow specifically for Python code
If you have DE/VM installed you can exit GUI with Ctrl+Alt+F2 (on some systems Alt+Ctrl+F4) to save some RAM. Turning it back may be accomprished with Ctrl+Alt+F1
Install GitHub [CLI] to your operating system.
Navigate to the folder where you want this program to be stored. Clone this repo to your machine with the following command:
gh repo clone carbon-starlight/WikiSchedule
If you already hosted WikiSchedule on a different computer and now are moving to a new machine and want to preserve the database, move your configuration/database files/cataloges to their locations. Since 2.0 these are the only database files (I hope). Addition of mediaArray file or catalog/folder to this list is planned in the future.
"config.json"
"masterfolders/getpage MASTERFOLDER/textbooks"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/interchange"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/forward_group-table_dictionary.json"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/lg_logs"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/mainArray"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/sg_toggle_logs"
"masterfolders/wsbot MASTERFOLDER/start_logs"
Navigate to project's folder. Launch cli.py to start the program.
python3 cli.py
Follow the instructions.
If you encounter error: externally-managed-environment some solutions are listed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75696359
After getting the system up and running you may disable GUI to save CPU and RAM resources with sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target; reboot (read article). Works with systemd-based OSes (Fedora, Debian, etc.). Doesn't work with Alpine, but it should come without intrusive GUI anyway.
Under consideration.