bot + admin same Gmail
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Would this project work on the same google account for the admin and the bot itself?
It will depend, but for the most part, the bot does not respond to messages sent by "itself". But if it's for others to use then it would probably work.
Don't make the bot an admin of itself, it's a potential security hole if one plugin's output is parsed as a live admin command for another plugin. Plus the above, it will generally ignore itself for most processing, which may make you unable to control it in places anyway.
Just make a new Google account for your bot, it's easy enough to do and you only need to login once more after creation.
Would it work with an ***@iam.gserviceaccount.com account?
Perhaps you could try it yourself and let us know?
Ultimately it's a question of whether hangups supports it, but if you're able to login with it using the regular Google sign-in page then it should be fine. See also tdryer/hangups#350, which may be relevant for service accounts too.