Hubot only stays online for 1 minute...

[alexhulbert]

I have to run heroku restart on hubot-kandan-app. I don't even think any commands are working.

[scouttyg]

We just pulled in a few changes to the hubot-kandan-app that might fix what you are talking about. Try pulling down the latest version, and read the updated readme (there is a new Heroku readme that @jangosteve has added)

[alexhulbert]

Now Hubot stays online, but none of the default commands work.

[JangoSteve]

That's probably due to this change needed in the Kandan app itself.

[scouttyg]

This was pulled in a few days ago, @Triforce1 are you still having issues?

[alexhulbert]

What extra do I have to do?

[scouttyg]

You need to pull in the latest changes from this branch, and then push up to heroku again if you are on it.

[alexhulbert]

I did that :/

[alexhulbert]

In the Hubot thing, I set host to *.herokuapp.com and the other thing to my token.

[alexhulbert]

But it still doesn't work...

[scouttyg]

Dammit I didn't mean to close this.

[alexhulbert]

I always close stuff by accident on GitHub

[scouttyg]

Did you follow the guide here (make sure you aren't missing any steps -- we've added a few heroku steps to it):

https://github.com/kandanapp/hubot-kandan-app

If so, did you follow the more detailed guide here:

https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/docs/deploying/heroku.md

It's hard to know where people get tripped up -- with the infinite amount of configurable systems out there and a large amount of steps to actually implement hubot/kandan on a system, it could be anything. We need to know what you have tried, what you haven't tried, etc.

[alexhulbert]

What's the difference beetween HUBOT_KANDAN_HOST and HEROKU_URL? I'm assuming the latter is just prefixed with "http://"?

[scouttyg]

Good question!

heroku config:set HEROKU_URL=http://rosemary-britches-123.herokuapp.com

This refers to the same url that you are hosting Hubot on. So if you launched Hubot on rhttp://rosemary-britches-123.herokuapp.com, you'd also set the config variable HEROKU_URL to be the same url. Why? So that way Hubot will ping itself and not shut itself down (which Heroku will do on the free tier).

HUBOT_KANDAN_HOST

Refers to I believe the port, so if you are running on SSL you'd say:

HUBOT_KANDAN_HOST=443
HUBOT_KANDAN_PROTOCOL=https

(Set these on the hubot-kandan-bot heroku instance).

Finally, you may have missed how to setup a bot initially on Kandan. To do so go back to your kandan repo and run

heroku run rake kandan:boot_hubot

After that is successful, run,

heroku run rake kandan:hubot_access_key

That should give you the HUBOT_KANDAN_TOKEN that I believe you set on hubot-kandan-app, ie,

heroku config:set HUBOT_KANDAN_TOKEN= (whatever the access key was)

I think this might put you on the right track, but to be honest I haven't set up Kandan yet with Hubot so I may be missing a step. Try that out though and let me know if that works.

[scouttyg]

Also, if the above doens't work, try these configs for heroku variables

HEROKU_URL:                  http://(where you are hosting hubot).herokuapp.com
HUBOT_KANDAN_CHANNELS:       1
HUBOT_KANDAN_HOST:           (where you are hosting kandan without the http in front).herokuapp.com
HUBOT_KANDAN_PORT:           443 (if ssl, otherwise I don't think you need this one)
HUBOT_KANDAN_PROTOCOL:       https (again, if ssl)
HUBOT_KANDAN_TOKEN:          (token that you got from the process I described above)