# OrchestratorSiphon

Clone repo to your machine: git clone https://github.com/stronk-dev/OrchestratorSiphon.git

Modify the script to use your orchs ETH keystore file: nano OrchestratorSiphon/OrchestratorSiphon.py

Dependencies:

pip install web3
pip install eth-utils
pip install setuptools

Run the script manually to test if it works:

python3 OrchestratorSiphon/OrchestratorSiphon.py

Run in screen

If you don't want to store the password to your keystore next tot the keystore file itself, the recommend way to running the script is something like screen. This allows you to set the password field empty in the config, type in the password when the script asks for it and then detach the terminal so it keeps running in the background.

Start a new screen session: screen -S orchSiphon

Run the script: python3 OrchestratorSiphon/OrchestratorSiphon.py

Now enter the password to the keystore file when asked. Then enter 0 to launch the siphon. Now you can de-attach the screen session with: <Ctrl + A>, then press <d>

⚠️ Although screen can in theory keep running indefinitely, if the process stops for any reason like a reboot of the system it will not come back up. So be sure to also enable Vires' Telegram bot to get notified if the node is not calling rewards.

You can list screen sessions which are running with screen -ls. To re-attach use screen -r orchSiphon

Now you can view the logs, enter interactive mode or exit the script as usual using <CTRL + c>

Systemd script

Example systemd script (modify paths): sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/orchSiphon.service

[Unit]
Description=LPT bond transfer
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/OrchestratorSiphon
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -u /path/to/OrchestratorSiphon/OrchestratorSiphon.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save service file and enable the service:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now orchSiphon.service

Check logs: journalctl -u orchSiphon.service -n 500 -f

Arch Linux (or other venv)

For operatins systems like Arch linux, enter the repository and create a new virtual environment:

cd OrchestratorSiphon
python -m venv .

Install depedencies:

bin/pip install web3
bin/pip install setuptools
bin/pip install eth-utils

Don't forget to use the python binary from the virtual environment when running the script: bin/python3 OrchestratorSiphon.py

For the systemd script this means changing ExecStart to ExecStart=/path/to/OrchestratorSiphon/bin/python3 -u /path/to/OrchestratorSiphon/OrchestratorSiphon.py

Interactive mode

If no password file is given, the script will ask the user to input the password to the keystore. You can also switch to interactive mode by sending a 'SIGQUIT' (<CTRL + \>) or 'SIGTSTP' (<CTRL + z>) signal to the script.

Interactive mode allows you to do more stuff, like voting on proposals or setting a new service URI.