Telegram Bot for Capturing Images with Raspberry Pi Camera Module

With this bot, you can capture images with camera module on your Raspberry Pi.

0. Prepare,

Install Go and generate your Telegram bot's API token.

1. Install and configure,

$ go get -d github.com/meinside/telegram-rpi-camera-bot
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/meinside/telegram-rpi-camera-bot
$ cp config.json.sample config.json
$ vi config.json

and edit values to yours:

{
  "available_ids": [
    "telegram_id_1",
    "telegram_id_2",
    "telegram_id_3"
  ],
  "monitor_interval": 3,
  "image_width": 1600,
  "image_height": 1200,
  "is_verbose": false,

  "api_token": "0123456789:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz-x-0a1b2c3d4e"
}

Using Infisical

You can also use Infisical for retrieving your bot api token:

{
  "available_ids": [
    "telegram_id_1",
    "telegram_id_2",
    "telegram_id_3"
  ],
  "monitor_interval": 3,
  "image_width": 1600,
  "image_height": 1200,
  "is_verbose": false,

  "infisical": {
    "client_id": "012345-abcdefg-987654321",
    "client_secret": "aAbBcCdDeEfFgG0123456789xyzwXYZW",

    "workspace_id": "012345abcdefg",
    "environment": "dev",
    "secret_type": "shared",

    "api_token_key_path": "/path/to/your/KEY_TO_API_TOKEN"
  }
}

2. Build,

A. build manually,

$ go build

B. or build with docker-compose

a. Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+

$ docker-compose build

b. Raspberry Pi 2

$ docker-compose build --build-arg RPI=raspberry-pi2

c. Raspberry Pi B / Zero

$ docker-compose build --build-arg RPI=raspberry-pi

3. And Run

A. run manually,

$ ./telegram-rpi-camera-bot

B. run as a service with systemd,

$ sudo cp systemd/telegram-rpi-camera-bot.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/telegram-rpi-camera-bot.service

and edit User, Group, WorkingDirectory and ExecStart values.

It will launch automatically on boot with:

$ sudo systemctl enable telegram-rpi-camera-bot.service

and will start with:

$ sudo systemctl start telegram-rpi-camera-bot.service

C. or run with docker-compose

$ docker-compose up -d

998. Trouble shooting

TODO

999. License

MIT