What's this?

A telegram bot to bridge unifi-video email alerts with telegram notifications/messages in a single group. It will also send the subject of non-motion alert emails, e.g: camera disconnect/reconnect

The bot supports 3 commands:

• /start: tell the bot to send messages to the group where the command is issued, ATM only a single group is supported.
• /st, /status: show status (active/inactive)
• /ac, /activate: enable notifications
• /de, /deactivate: disable notifications, the will receive the email alerts but not forward them to telegram

in/active state is persistent, and will be maintained across restarts

Bot setup

1. create a bot via BotFather and grab the token
2. create a group and add your newly created bot to it
3. create a config based on the config.yaml.example using the Token and adjust for your system/users

virtualenv

1. create a virtualenv:

   $ python3 -m venv venv

2. install deps

   $ source venv/bin/activate $ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. python ./uv_alert_bot.py config.yaml

fades

1. install fades

2. run it

   fades ./uv_alert_bot.py config.yaml

Docker

1. docker build .

2. docker run -v /path/to/config_dir/:/config --net=host

Unifi video setup

Go to https://your-unifi-video-host:7443/settings/main

1. enable email alerts
2. In the email settings: smtp server: IP/hostname where the bot is running port: 8025 (or the port you specified in the config.yaml)
3. save changes