turnip

I often need to SSH into my home box when I'm travelling, but my ISP wants me to pay to have a static IP. turnip helps me solve this problem, by notifying me of IP changes on Discord.

Usage

• Install python-discord
• Create a Discord bot, give it message permissions
• Run turnip to check if the bot correctly sends a message to the desired channel containing your public IP
• Copy turnip to ~/.local/bin or any directory in your path
• Edit turnip.service to specify the path to the script and its arguments
• Link turnip unit file and timer systemctl --user link $(readlink --canonicalize turnip.*)
• Enable the timer systemctl --user enable turnip.timer --now
• Never get locked out of your machine by your ISP again

FAQ

Q: Discord ? Why not email ?
A: What is this, 1971 ?

Q: Systemd ? Why not cron ?
A: What is this, 1975 ?