Post the status of a door to slack using Raspberry Pi

A simple bot using node js to poll a door sensor (gpio pin) and post the result to a Slack Channel

Requirements

• Node 7 or later
• Raspberry PI

Installation

1. Clone repo and install dependencies

   git clone https://github.com/jpdenford/DoorSlackBot.git  
   cd DoorSlackBot  
   npm install  

2. Create a Slack Bot
   https://api.slack.com/bot-users
3. Find the channelID where you want the message to be posted
   https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.list/test
4. Put the channelID and slackbot TOKEN in the config.json file

Running

Run command sudo node index.js
If you want to leave the process running, run sudo nohup sudo node index.js &