Your Everlife.Ai Avatar Node

This your main Everlife.ai avatar node. You can use it to set up your personal avatar and connect it to the Everlife network.

The Avatar Node comes in two flavors:

1. A Docker version that can be deployed on any VPS or Mac or Linux machine
2. A non-docker Windows version (Docker is hard to install on Windows)

Bringing your Avatar to life

This document contains instructions for setting up and running your Everlife avatar on your own machines.

Pre-requisites

Docker (Mac/Linux/VPS) Pre-requisities

1. Install Docker
2. Install Yarn

Windows Pre-requisities

Windows 10

1. Install NodeJS (install all the options including Python and the dotnet framework required by node-gyp
2. Install Yarn

Windows 7 Ensure all the following are installed:

1. Donet framework 4.5.2
2. VC++ 2017
3. Python 2.7
4. NodeJS 8+
5. Windows 7 (Service Pack One)
6. Yarn (latest)

Windows Setup

In order to get a working avatar with a wallet, you need to set it up and configure it.

1. Unzip the avatar into your $HOME directory
2. Go to the command prompt and navigate to your node directory
3. run setup

In order to safeguard the wallet, it is password protected. So that the user does not need to type in this password again and again it needs to be saved once. In order to do this the setup will ask you for a password.

When prompted for the password, pick a good password that you are comfortable with. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS PASSWORD AS IT CANNOT BE RECOVERED.

Docker Setup

In order to get a working avatar with a wallet, you need to set it up and configure it. First you need to set up the required docker containers. Perform the following steps:

1. Unzip the avatar into your $HOME directory
2. Go to the command prompt and navigate to your node directory
3. ./run.sh setup

In order to safeguard the wallet, it is password protected. So that the user does not need to type in this password again and again it needs to be saved once. In order to do this you need to do the following:

1. Load the node

    $> ./run.sh enter
   

2. Go to the Stellar Server

    # cd services/elife-stellar
   

3. Run the password manager

    # node pw
   

When prompted for the password, pick a good password that you are comfortable with. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS PASSWORD AS IT CANNOT BE RECOVERED.

QWERT - The default GUI

In order to start chatting with your avatar, you can use the built-in chatbot. To start this use:

    Windows:
        C:\Users\John\elife> run gui
    Docker:
        $> ./run.sh gui

This will launch a GUI which you can use to chat with your avatar.

Telegram Channel

To chat with your bot 'on the go' (on your mobile phone for example) you can use the excellent Telegram application. The avatar has a communication channel that integrates with Telegram. The steps for doing this are as follows:

1. Go to Telegram to create a bot by typing

        /newbot
   

   command to create your telegram bot.

2. The BotFather will ask you for a name and username, then generate an authorization token for your new bot. The token is a string along the lines of 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw.

3. We now need to link this new telegram bot with your avatar. To do this, simply save the telegram token in elife.data/cfg.env (in Windows this is simply cfg.env in your local directory)

Migrating old nodes (from version < 3.0.0)

If you have installed a node earlier than version 3.0.0, you will need to migrate your stellar wallet to be compatible with the latest version.

Steps to do this:

1. Make a backup of your existing password file. You will find this hidden file in your elife.data folder with the name .luminate-pw:

    mv elife.data/.luminate-pw <some backup location>
   

2. Regenerate your Stellar Wallet password by using the same steps above. You must use the same password you have used when setting up the node.

    #> ./run.sh enter
    # cd services/elife-stellar
    # node pw
   

3. Download lu-migrate

4. Point it to your stellar account. You will find your account in the elife.data/stellar/ directory. The filename will end with .stellar

    yarn start --to v2 /path/to/elife.data/stellar/wallet-...
   

5. Start your node and you're ready to go

Your Data

The avatar's data always lives in the folder elife.data (for Docker) and C:\data (for Windows). It is recommended that you backup this folder as it contains your Everchain, your database, and your Stellar wallet.

elife.db

Starting and Chatting with Your Avatar

Now that your avatar is set up you can start him up by running

    C:\Users\John\elife> run avatar (Windows)

    $> ./run.sh avatar (Docker)

Now you can go to your interface of choice (Telegram or QWERT) and start chatting!

Stopping your avatar

Windows Version

Simply type Ctrl+C in the terminal window to stop your avatar from running.

Docker Version

Your avatar will keep running in the background and is expected to run even after you restart your machine. To stop the avatar please run:

    $> ./run.sh stop

Next steps

1. Join the Everlife network through an Avatar Hub.Contact our support channel in discord to get your invite code to join the hub and inform your avatar that you would like to join this Avatar Hub by saying

    /use_invite xxxx
   

2. Install and try out various skills

    /help
    /install calculator
    /install what-wine
   

Feel free to provide us your feedback and issues in our discord support channel.