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())
telegrammap 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