From a869eaba6ba70a3ebbea13db0277f14460cfcca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nullart2 <john+github@nullart.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:11:06 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bot_id docs and in startup message

---
 config.json.example       | 1 +
 config_full.json.example  | 1 +
 docs/configuration.md     | 5 +++++
 freqtrade/freqtradebot.py | 4 +++-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.json.example b/config.json.example
index 8bd3942e6..77219e5d1 100644
--- a/config.json.example
+++ b/config.json.example
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+    "bot_id": 0,
     "max_open_trades": 3,
     "stake_currency": "BTC",
     "stake_amount": 0.05,
diff --git a/config_full.json.example b/config_full.json.example
index cc3b3d630..a523db7c5 100644
--- a/config_full.json.example
+++ b/config_full.json.example
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+    "bot_id": 0,
     "max_open_trades": 3,
     "stake_currency": "BTC",
     "stake_amount": 0.05,
diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index ff5ce118c..e85192c2b 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ The table below will list all configuration parameters.
 
 |  Command | Default | Mandatory | Description |
 |----------|---------|----------|-------------|
+| `bot_id` | 0 | No | Allows multiple bot connect to 1 database server. This value should be unique in each bot instance.
 | `max_open_trades` | 3 | Yes | Number of trades open your bot will have.
 | `stake_currency` | BTC | Yes | Crypto-currency used for trading.
 | `stake_amount` | 0.05 | Yes | Amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade. Per default, the bot will use (0.05 BTC x 3) = 0.15 BTC in total will be always engaged. Set it to 'unlimited' to allow the bot to use all avaliable balance.
@@ -55,6 +56,10 @@ The table below will list all configuration parameters.
 
 The definition of each config parameters is in [misc.py](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/freqtrade/misc.py#L205).
 
+### Understand bot_id
+
+`bot_id` is a value assigned to each instance of the bot. Use only UNIQUE `bot_id` value per bot instance when connected to a single database server such as Postgre, Mysql, etc. 
+
 ### Understand stake_amount
 
 `stake_amount` is an amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade.
diff --git a/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py b/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
index 8f77e9887..da0462c2d 100644
--- a/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
+++ b/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class FreqtradeBot(object):
                 'type': RPCMessageType.WARNING_NOTIFICATION,
                 'status': 'Dry run is enabled. All trades are simulated.'
             })
+        bot_id = self.config.get('bot_id',0)
         stake_currency = self.config['stake_currency']
         stake_amount = self.config['stake_amount']
         minimal_roi = self.config['minimal_roi']
@@ -127,7 +128,8 @@ class FreqtradeBot(object):
         strategy_name = self.config.get('strategy', '')
         self.rpc.send_msg({
             'type': RPCMessageType.CUSTOM_NOTIFICATION,
-            'status': f'*Exchange:* `{exchange_name}`\n'
+            'status': f'*Bot ID:* `{bot_id}`\n'
+                      f'*Exchange:* `{exchange_name}`\n'
                       f'*Stake per trade:* `{stake_amount} {stake_currency}`\n'
                       f'*Minimum ROI:* `{minimal_roi}`\n'
                       f'*Ticker Interval:* `{ticker_interval}`\n'