SecurityCamBot

SecurityCamBot

Telegram bot for managing webcams and receiving alerts from then.

Install

Add Widmaker repo ans install windmaker-security-cam-bot:

wget -O - https://packages.windmaker.net/WINDMAKER-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.windmaker.net/ focal main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install windmaker-security-cam-bot

Allowed actions

For the time being, webcams can be rebooted only.

Configuration

This bot uses a config file which folder location is defined by environment variable SECURITY_CAM_BOT_CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION, inside this folder it must exists a file called config.toml.

[telegram_bot]
token = "token"

[telegram_bot.allowed_senders]
[telegram_bot.allowed_senders.alice]
name = "Alice"
id = 12

[telegram_bot.allowed_senders.bob]
name = "Bob"
id = 13

[webcams]
[webcams.cam01]
name= "cam1"
ip = "10.10.10.34"
user = "user"
password = "pass"

[webcams.cam02]
name= "cam2"
ip = "10.10.10.35"
user = "user"
password = "pass"

[rabbitmq]
host = "localhost"
port = 5672
user = "guest"
password = "guest"

[queues]
[queues.send_sanpshot_commands]
name = "sendsnapshotjobs"

[queues.receive_sanpshot]
name = "snapshots"

Config files must include the following sections:

telegram_bot

Defines telegram bot config:

• token -> bot token
• allowed_senders -> list of telegram users allowed to interact with this bot.
  • id -> user ID
  • name -> user name

Webcams

Webcams to manage must be set in this section.

• name -> Name for identifying the webcam
• ip -> Webcam IP
• user -> Webcam user
• password -> Webcam password

Rabbitmq

Snapshot jobs are sended to WebCamSnapshotWorker through Rabbitmq queues.

• host -> Rabbitmq host
• port -> Rabbitmq port
• user -> Rabbitmq user
• password -> User's password

Queues

This bots requires tew queues for the time being, each queue needs a name.

• send_sanpshot_commands -> Queue for sending snapshot jobs.
• receive_sanpshot -> Queue for receiving finnished snapshot jobs from WebCamSnapshotWorker

Systemd service setup

After saving config in /etc/windmaker-security-cam-bot/config.toml systemd service can be enabled:

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable windmaker-security-cam-bot
sudo /bin/systemctl start windmaker-security-cam-bot

Logging

This bot writes logs to syslog:

Dec  5 15:51:29 metatron security-cam-bot[8220]: Blocked message received from sender 112897183.
Dec  5 15:56:40 metatron security-cam-bot[8962]: /hello received from sender Bob.