Quick and dirty Motion + Telegram setup.
Camera config
on_movie_end /home/djhedges/send_telegram.py %f
BotFarther
Send /newbot to @BotFarther to generate bot API key.
Create chat group with new bot.
Send a getUpdates request by modifying the script below to find the chat id.
Telegram Script
#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
import requests
import subprocess
import sys
API_KEY = ''
CHAT_ID = ''
def GenerateThumbnail(filepath):
output_path = filepath[:-3] + '.jpg'
ff_mpeg_cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-i', filepath, '-ss', '00:00:00.000', '-vframes', '1', output_path]
subprocess.call(ff_mpeg_cmd)
return output_path
def PostRequest(method, data, files):
url = f'https://api.telegram.org/bot{API_KEY}/{method}'
return requests.post(url=url, data=data, files=files, timeout=1000)
def SendVideo(filepath):
thumbnail_path = GenerateThumbnail(filepath)
with open(thumbnail_path, 'rb') as thumbnail_file:
with open(filepath, 'rb') as video_file:
response = PostRequest(
'sendVideo', {
'text': 'test',
'chat_id': CHAT_ID},
{'thumb': (os.path.basename(thumbnail_path), thumbnail_file),
'video': (os.path.basename(filepath), video_file)})
def main():
filepath = sys.argv[1]
if filepath.endswith('mp4'):
SendVideo(filepath)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
