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Telegram PTZ & Notifications

Telegram PTZ & Notifications

The telegram component can do two things. First, it can send detection videos (and thumbnails) to a chat when a detection occurs. Second, it can be used to control the ptz component from the chat, with commands like '/left', '/right', etc.

Configuration​

Configuration example
telegram:
  telegram_bot_token: <ask_the_bot_father>
  telegram_chat_ids: [<run_a_script>]
  detection_label: person
  send_detection_thumbnail: true
  send_detection_video: true
  send_detection_message: false
  cameras:
    camera_1:
    camera_2:

Script to get chat id:

import asyncio
from telegram import Bot

# Replace 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN' with the token you got from BotFather
bot_token = 'your_bot_token'


async def get_chat_id():
    # Create an instance of the Bot
    bot = Bot(token=bot_token)

    # Get updates
    updates = await bot.get_updates()

    for update in updates:
        print(update.message.chat.id, update.message.chat.username)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(get_chat_id())
telegram​map required
Telegram bot to control pan-tilt-zoom cameras.

Troubleshooting​

To enable debug logging for telegram, add the following to your config.yaml
/config/config.yaml
logger:
  logs:
    viseron.components.telegram: debug