Overview

Plugin Objective

The Peek Chat plugin provides simple chat functionality between users in the Peek system and integrations in external systems.

Integrations with external systems are handled by other plugins, which can use the API for this chat plugin.

Originally this plugin was designed to send messages between the power grid control room and field engineers.

Plugin Uses

Simple communications with external systems.

How It Works

Here is an overview of the architecture of the plugin.

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Administration

Requirements

This plugin requires the following peek plugins :

  • peek-plugin-active-task
  • peek-core-user

These dependencies are set in the python package.