Creating the management room

Introduction

The management room is where you will interact with Draupnir. This is the room where Draupnir will respond to commands, allowing you to coordinate with Draupnir and other moderators without disrupting your public Matrix rooms. You can find further information about the mangement room here.

You should create this room after you have created a user for your Draupnir bot.

Creating the room

warning

We strongly recommend against encrypting the management room, and we cannot provide support if you do. Please see the section on encrypting the management room here.

The management room should be created using your client from any Matrix user account. The room should not be public as any user that joins this room will be able to control Draupnir.

Once you have created the room, you should invite the bot user that you created for Draupnir to the room.

You will also need to acquire the room ID of this room, in Element Web you can find this by going to the room, going to: Settings -> Advanced -> "Internal Room ID".

In your configuration, set managementRoom to this Room ID, and now Draupnir will only respond to commands originating from that room. If you want to upgrade your room in the future, you will have to update the configuration with it. Alternatively, you can create a room alias.

Encrypting the management room

We do not recommend setting up an encrypted management room, and we cannot provide support for setting one up. Please see our notes on encryption here.