Available Hives

This page provides an overview of all available Hives.

Common Hives

Cron

Cron triggers events in certain intervals - just like the real cron on Unix machines.

Events:

• Timer triggered

Email

This hive is able to send emails.

Actions:

• Send email

Exec

Executes a command.

Facebook

Currently unavailable.

FSNotify

Monitor filesystem paths.

GitHub

This hive is able to connect to GitHub.

Events:

• Someone pushed to a repository
• New commits in a repository
• Someone starred a repository
• Someone forked a repository
• A new issue was opened
• An issue was closed
• Someone commented on an issue
• A new PR was opened
• A PR was closed
• Someone commented on a PR
• A new release was published in a repository

Actions:

• Follow a user
• Unfollow a user
• Star a repository
• Unstar a repository

Gitter

Interact with Gitter.

HTMLExtract

Extracts meta information from web sites, like the HTML title-tag, prominent images and more.

Events:

• Information extracted. In order to use HTMLExtract as an Event, you must also use HTMLExtract as an action of a different chain. For example you can create a chain Cron → HTMLExtract to regularly scrape a website and a second chain HTMLExtract → Twitter to react on the results of the scrape.

Actions:

• Extract information from website.

HTTP client

Lets you trigger HTTP requests.

IRC

The IRC-hive interfaces with Internet Relay Chat servers. It acts as a client and enables you to receive and send messages on IRC.

Events:

• Message received

Actions:

• Send message
• Join channel
• Part channel

Jabber

This hive connects to an XMPP/Jabber server, triggering events on incoming messages as well as offering an action to send messages.

Events:

• Message received

Actions:

• Send message

Jenkins

Triggers events when a build job's state changes and offers an action to trigger new builds on a Jenkins CI.

Events:

• Status changed

Actions:

• Trigger build

Mastodon

Interact with mastodon.

Mumble

Connects to Mumble.

Nagios

Watches a Nagios instance for status changes and triggers events accordingly.

Events:

• Status changed

OpenWeatherMap

Retrieves weather information from openweathermap.org.

PasteBin

Posts a snippet on Pastebin.

Prometheus

Allows for exposing arbitrary metrics to a Prometheus server, providing a "/metrics" page.

Actions:

• Increment a counter
• Add a value to a counter
• Set the value of a gauge
• Increment a gauge
• Decrement a gauge
• Add a value to a gauge
• Subtract a value from a gauge
• Set the value of a gauge to the current UNIX timestamp
• Record an observation to a histogram
• Record an observation to a summary

Rocket.Chat

Connects to Rocket.Chat. It allows to send messages to a channel. Events are currently not supported.

Actions:

• send

RSS

Polls RSS feeds and fires events when new feed items have been found.

Events:

• New feed item

S3

Upload files to S3 compatible storage.

Slack

Connects to Slack.

Telegram

Allows to send messages through Telegram using Telegram's API and bots.

Events:

• Read messages from Telegram's bot.

Actions:

• Send messages to a Telegram chat.

Time

A hive that can fire events at given timestamps.

Events:

• Timer triggered

Transmission

Allows to add torrents/magnets to a Transmission daemon

Actions:

• Add a torrent/magnet URL

Tumblr

Allows you to post new texts and quotes to a Tumblr blog.

Actions:

• Post text
• Post quote

Twilio

Lets you send SMS to mobile phones.

Actions:

• Send an SMS

Twitter

Reacts to new events in your timeline and allows you to post new tweets. This hive uses Twitters outdated v1.1 API. To use it, you have to "request" and elevated access.

Actions:

• Post tweet
• Follow someone
• Unfollow someone

UDP Sockets

Lets you transmit data via UDP sockets.

Web

A tiny HTTP server ready to receive GET or POST requests, which cause events to be fired accordingly. It also allows you to send POST requests with JSON data to other servers yourself.

Events:

• GET request received
• POST request received

Actions:

• POST request with JSON data

Special Duty Hives

AlertOver

Lets you push notifications on AlertOver.

AnelPowerCtrl

Anel PowerCtrls are network-enabled power sockets. This hive lets you turn on/off those remote power sockets.

Actions:

• Turn on/off power socket

CleverBot

Chat with cleverbot.

Cricket

Triggers Events on cricket score updates.

DevRant

Retrieves rants from DevRant.

EFA

Query EFA (Elektronische Fahrplan Auskunft) APIs for train and bus schedules.

Events:

• Departure for stop found

Actions:

• Retrieve next departures for a stop

HorizonBox

A bee observing the state of a UnityMedia HorizonBox.

Hue

Allows you to talk to the Philips Hue bridge, enabling you to turn your lights on or off, and even to change their colors.

Actions:

• Turn on/off light
• Set color on light

Notification

Provides an action to trigger freedesktop.org notifications. The notification is displayed on the host beehive is running on. To get the notification on a different host, use 3rd party tools or link two beehive-instances via the http server & client hives.

Actions:

• Notify

PushOver

Send pushover notifications.

Serial

Reads and writes from tty/serial (COM port) devices.

Events:

• Line received

Actions:

• Send text

Simplepush

This hive is able to send push notifications to Android (via the Simplepush app).
Push notifications can optionally be end-to-end encrypted.

Actions:

• Send (encrypted) push notification

SpaceAPI

Connects to a SpaceAPI instance, usually run in hacker spaces.

Events:

• Status of the space has changed

Actions:

• Query current space status