RaspiControl-Bot

Recieve status data from your RaspberryPi via a Telegram Bot.

How to use:

Create a new bot via the @BotFather on Telegram and copy the token.

Clone this repository onto your RaspberryPi. In this folder, create a file named "token.txt" and paste your bot token into it. You also have to open your terminal and install: pip install gpiozero and pip install python-telegram-bot==12.8 (Using version 12.8 is important. In the future i might be updating the script to use version 20+.)

Now run the raspicontrol.py script.

Run on autostart:

I used a virtual python environment to run the script. To set this up use following commands: python3 -m venv /home/pi/pi-status-bot/venv

To navigate into the virtual envirenment use: source /home/pi/pi-status-bot/venv/bin/activate

Now install to needed packages into the venv: pip install gpiozero and pip install python-telegram-bot==12.8

Let's create the system serive using following command: sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/raspicontrol.service

In there paste the following:

[Unit]
Description=RaspiControl-Telegram-Bot
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/pi/pi-status-bot/venv/bin/python /home/pi/pi-status-bot/raspicontrol.py
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This ensures that the service runs in the virtual environment and runs after the system fully started up. Exit nano with CTRL + X and save with Y followed by ENTER.

Now you can enable the service: sudo systemctl enable raspicontrol.service

And start it: sudo systemctl start raspicontrol.service

You can check the status of the service by using: sudo systemctl status raspicontrol.service