Windows Guide

Notice on windows installer

There is an easier way in the works but this will take time to make, sorry about that. - Toastie

This way of installing and using Ellie is nearly ready so keep and eye out for that part of the guide. - Toastie

Windows From Source

Prerequisites

Install these before proceeding or your bot will not work!

  • .net 8 - needed to compile and run the bot
  • git - needed to clone the repository (you can also download the zip manually and extract it, but this guide assumes you’re using git)
  • Redis (OPTIONAL)- to cache things needed by some features and persist through restarts
Installation Instructions

Open PowerShell (press windows button on your keyboard and type powershell, it should show up; alternatively, right click the start menu and select Windows PowerShell), and navigate to the location where you want to install the bot (for example cd ~/Desktop/)

  1. git clone https://toastielab.dev/Emotions-stuff/EllieBot -b v5 --depth 1
  2. cd EllieBot
  3. dotnet publish -c Release -o output/ src/EllieBot/
  4. cd output
  5. cp creds_example.yml creds.yml
  6. Open creds.yml with your favorite text editor (Please don’t use Notepad or WordPad. You can use Notepad++, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, or something similar)
  7. Enter your bot’s token
  8. Run the bot dotnet EllieBot.dll
  9. 🎉
Update Instructions

Open PowerShell as described above and run the following commands:

  1. Stop the bot
  • ⚠️ Make sure you don’t have your database, credentials or any other EllieBot folder open in some application, this might prevent some of the steps from executing succesfully
  1. Navigate to your bot’s folder, example:
    • cd ~/Desktop/EllieBot
  2. Pull the new version, and make sure you’re on the v5 branch
    • ⚠️ the first 3 lines can be omitted if you’re already on v5. If you’re updating from v4, you must run them
      • git remote set-branches origin '*'
      • git fetch -v --depth=1
      • git checkout v5
    • git pull
    • ⚠️ If this fails, you may want to stash or remove your code changes if you don’t know how to resolve merge conflicts
  3. Backup old output in case your data is overwritten
    • cp -r -fo output/ output-old
  4. Build the bot again
    • dotnet publish -c Release -o output/ src/EllieBot/
  5. Remove old strings and aliases to avoid overwriting the updated versions of those files
    • ⚠ If you’ve modified said files, back them up instead
    • rm output-old/data/aliases.yml
    • rm -r output-old/data/strings
  6. Copy old data
    • cp -Recurse .\output-old\data\ .\output\ -Force
  7. Copy creds.yml
    • cp output-old/creds.yml output/
  8. Run the bot
    • cd output
    • dotnet EllieBot.dll

🎉 Enjoy

Music prerequisites

In order to use music commands, you need ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed.

  • ffmpeg-32bit | ffmpeg-64bit - Download the appropriate version for your system (32 bit if you’re running a 32 bit OS, or 64 if you’re running a 64bit OS). Unzip it, and move ffmpeg.exe to a path that’s in your PATH environment variable. If you don’t know what that is, just move the ffmpeg.exe file to EllieBot/output.
  • youtube-dlp - Click to download the yt-dlp.exe file, then move yt-dlp.exe to a path that’s in your PATH environment variable. If you don’t know what that is, just move the yt-dlp.exe file to EllieBot/system.