readme.md

Raspberry PI Telegram Control bot

Control you Raspberry PI device via Telegram bot deployed on it

Set up as a service

1. Clone repository to your Raspberry PI

2. Create configuration cp .env.example .env, and then update it.

   1. bot_token is a Telegram bot token you receive from @BotFather

3. Create virtual environment and activate it.

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   

   To install virtualenv run:

   python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
   

4. Install requirements

   pip install -r -requirements.txt
   

5. Create service configuration file telegram-control-bot.service in /etc/systemd/system changing directories to your ones:

   [Unit]
   Description=Raspberry PI Telegram Control bot
   
   [Service]
   User=root
   WorkingDirectory=/home/user/raspberrypi-telegram-control/
   ExecStart=/home/user/raspberrypi-telegram-control/venv/bin/python main.py
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=3
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

6. Activate service:

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo systemctl start telegram-control-bot.service
   sudo systemctl enable telegram-control-bot.service