dodopontocom / telegram-bot-motion-rasp

telegram-bot-motion-rasp

A helper to install motion detection into your raspberry PI and send detected motions via telegram bot.

Good for?

• monitoring houses
• monitoring babies
• watching birds
• monitoring pets
• monitoring harmful insects
• employees
• (...)

Dependencies

• internet connection
• git
• curl
• motion
• usb webcam connected to your rasp
• personal telegram bot (api token) learn
• your telegram id (id destination that the messages will be sent)

How to run (run it on your raspberry)

git clone https://github.com/dodopontocom/telegram-bot-motion-rasp.git && cd telegram-bot-motion-rasp

echo "export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<YOUR TELEGRAM BOT TOKEN>" >> .definitions.sh
echo "export NOTIFICATION_ID=<YOUR UNIQ TELEGRAM ID>" >> .definitions.sh

bash ./motion.sh

Crontab -e

a good think to do is adding the script to a crontab job to run the verification any time you desire

crontab -e

add the following line (ex.: run it every 12 minutes)

*/12 * * * * /home/pi/telegram-bot-motion-rasp/motion.sh

Notes

• run it as default (pi) user
• this version works better in Debian based distribution

Rasp+Cam

Bot+Notification