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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