jerry@homelab:~/docs$ cat task-bot.md
task-bot: The Automation Hub
I built task-bot as a Donetick replacement. It is a Signal-based personal automation hub. I text it a command from my phone, and a FastAPI app routes it to the right integration, wrapping dozens of services.
It owns the entire pipeline, so there's no upstream bug to wait on, though it means maintaining the integrations myself. What started as a one-shot reminder bot has since grown into a small plugin-based system, all feeding into a merged morning briefing and a terminal-themed web dashboard alongside the Signal interface.
Core Integrations
Architectural Note: mcrcon incompatibility. I cannot use the `mcrcon` PyPI package. It implements timeouts via `signal.SIGALRM`, which is restricted to the main process thread. FastAPI command handlers run in Starlette’s threadpool, not the main thread. I had to roll a Source RCON client from scratch using plain sockets.
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