telegram-camera-bridge

Telegram MotionEye Integration

A stupid little project that takes pictures using a Raspberry Pi Zero every x minutes (or upon a motion REST request) from a MotionEye OS camera and sends it to a Telegram Group.

...why?

So we can watch guinea pigs without having to completely expose a service or set up wireguard. Important stuff, written one bored afternoon.

How

Run

Easy:

1. Acquire guinea pigs, kids, or other things that need watching and make sure they are happy
2. Install MotionEye OS on a Raspberry PI and connect a camera; configure it so it sends motion detection is on and "Call a Web Hook" points to the server and port you're running this on (can be the same Raspberry, really)
3. Customize the config/sample.yaml (see below)
4. Build and run: go run *.go serve --config ./config/sample.yaml

Config

You will need a bot, which you can get by chatting up @BotFather on Telegram.

Next, add that to a chanel.

Use your bot's bot_name and api_key from that chat.

Next, fire a request as such:

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.telegram.org/YOUR_BOT_KEY/getUpdates'

And grab the ID of the chanel you've added the bot to.

"my_chat_member": {
                "chat": {
                    "id": INT64_ID,
                    "title": "ID",
                    "type": "group",
                    ...

Build & Test

go test ./... -coverprofile coverage.out
go tool cover --html coverage.out 
go build *.go

Docker

CONFIG_FILE=$(pwd)/config/sample.yaml
docker build . -t telegram-motioneye
docker run -d  \
    -p "$(cat $CONFIG_FILE | grep port | cut -d'"' -f2 | xargs)":6060 \
    -v $(pwd)/config:/config \
    telegram-motioneye \
    /app/server serve --config /config/$(basename $CONFIG_FILE)