Device Controller Telegram Bot

A Telegram Bot to control Board Pins for Device Controller Arduino Library

Usage

• Install Device Controller Arduino Library in Arduino IDE.
• Use Arduino Uno Controller Example Sketch to test the bot.
• Upload Sketch on the board
• Create new Telegram Bot using BotFather
• Copy API KEY to clipboard
• Install DeviceControllerTelegramBot Using pip

  pip3 install DeviceControllerTelegramBot
  

• Use ArduinoUnoController.py from examples to create a Telegram bot
• Assign copied Key to api_key variable
• Update Serial Communication configuration

  serial_comms_conf = {
    'PORT': "COM[PORT_NUMBER]",
    'baud_rate': 9600,
    'timeout': 0.0,
    'encoding': 'utf-8'
  }
  

  Update PORT in dictionary

• Start Bot using

  python3 ArduinoUnoController.py
  

• Start chat with bot on telegram, it will reply with your telegram chat id, copy chat id and update admin_chat_ids_list

  admin_chat_ids_list = [
    your_chat_id,
    another_chat_ids_if_any,
  ]
  

• Restart Bot
• Use /devices command to control connected devices

TODO

• Add demonstration image/video
• Add options to control Analog pins