MMM-TelegramBot

TelegramBot module for MagicMirror

Feature

• You can remote-control your MagicMirror and modules within Telegram.
• The Bot is implemented in this module thus you don't need to manage antoher daemon.
• Other module developers can add their commands easily. (See the Wiki : https://github.com/eouia/MMM-TelegramBot/wiki )

New Updates

[1.2.2] 2020-03-23

• added: Can upload screenshot to google photos via MMM-GooglePhotos(> 2.0.0)

Installation

1) Create Telegram Bot

Ref : https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather

1. Open your browser in Desktop PC(or your mirror or your phone, anywhere) and Navigate to https://telegram.me/botfather
2. Click Send Message button, then your telegram will be opened in your phone or your PC which Telegram is already installed on. Meet BotFather.
3. Command /newbot, give a name to the bot created, give an username. username should end with bot. (e.g. MyMagicMirrorBot or mystupidslave-bot... )
4. After created, you can get API Token. It looks like 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw. Remember that.
5. Read messages from BotFather. You can find your bot and change chat room of your Bot. Type anything, but your bot will not react yet.

2) Install Module

1. In your mirror, open terminal and execute below;

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/eouia/MMM-TelegramBot.git
cd MMM-TelegramBot
npm install

3) Configuration (Pre-use)

1. Open config.js of MagicMirror, add these;

{
  module: 'MMM-TelegramBot',
  config: {
    telegramAPIKey : '<your Telegram API Token>',
    allowedUser : ['<your Telegram username without @>'], // This is NOT the username of bot.
  }
},

2. restart your MagicMirror.

4) Back to your Bot and test

1. Back to the chat room with your Bot in Telegram, try /help or /commands. Your bot will react!
2. Now,try /mychatid. This command will show the id of this chat room. The chat id looks like 12345678. Remember that. We will use this id for admin.

5) Register admin Chat id

1. Open config.js again.

{
  module: 'MMM-TelegramBot',
  config: {
    telegramAPIKey : '<your Telegram API Token>',
    allowedUser : ['<your Telegram username without @>'],
    adminChatId : <your admin chat id>,
  }
},

2. Restart your MagicMirror.
3. You can get welcome message in your admin chat room. Now you can use Bot!

Other configuration option

{
  module: 'MMM-TelegramBot',
  position: "top_left", // Required since 1.2.0
  config: {
    telegramAPIKey : '<your Telegram API Token>',
    allowedUser : ['<your Telegram username without @>'],
    adminChatId : <your admin chat id>,

    useWelcomeMessage: false,
    verbose: false,

    /** added since 1.1.0 **/
    favourites:["/commands", "/modules", "/hideall", "/showall"],
    screenshotScript: "scrot",
    detailOption: {},
    customCommands: [],

    /** added since 1.2.0 **/
    telecast: null, // true or chat_id
    telecastLife: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 6, //
    telecastLimit: 5,
    telecastHideOverflow: true,
  }
},

• useWelcomeMessage : if set as false, Wake-up message will not happen.
• verbose : if set as false, log will not be logged.
• favourites : put your favourite commands to telegram keyboard. They will be loaded by command /favor
• screenshotScript : set your screencapture program(if needed with option parameters but not target filename. The filename will be added in the end of this command automatically.) if set as null, /screenshot will not work.

If you are using another platform, find a proper screencapture program for your environment. (e.g: for OSX, screencapture will be valid.)

• detailOption : For Developer/Expert. Set detail options for note-telegram-bot-api constructor (https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/blob/5169d79bd92495d169f9e49302b9f5c630c6ccfc/src/telegram.js#L186)
• customCommands : You can add your own command (Finally!!!)
• telecast : null for disallowance. true for activating by only /telecast command. "{chatId}" for telecasting whole chats in specific chat room. (Read the wiki)
• telecastLife : ms of lifetime of chat. After this time, chat will be disappeared and cache data also be removed.
• telecastLimit : How many chats be displayed. Older chat will be shifted by new one.
• telecastHideOverflow : on true, when overflowed old chats will be hidden. (defined by CSS) If you have touch/mouse interface, you can scroll hidden area.

Telecast might have different look by position of module. on .bar, .middle.center, .third region, telecastLimit:1 would be better. Or modify CSS by yourself.

Update History

[1.2.1] 2020-03-15

• added: text identifier on no profile photo.
• added: TELBOT_TELECAST notification.

[1.2.0] 2020-03-13

• Added: Telecast. Now you can telecast your chat or message on MagicMirror screen. (Read the wiki)
• Changed: position is needed for telecast (You need to re-configure)

[1.1.1] 2020-03-09

• changed: TELBOT_TELL_ADMIN can get rich format.

[1.1.0] 2020-02-27

• added: new commands

  • /recent : load telegram keyboard for recent used commands
  • /favor : load telegram keyboard for favorite commands
  • /shell : execute shell script or shell command (e.g: /shell echo hello world)
  • /notification : emit MagicMirror notification (e.g: /notification SHOW_ALERT {"title":"test", "timer":1000})
  • /screenshot : take a screenshot of MagicMirror

  I will remove screenshot feature from MMM-Tools on next updates at near future, so use this instead.

• added: new features

  • custom command by user available.
  • abbreviation of command available (e.g: You can use just /noti or /n instead of full /notification)
  • detail option of telegramBot constructor(API) available. (e.g: proxy setting) - experimental

• changed: kinder logging message.

• changed: parse_mode:"MarkdownV2" is supported.(natively by API)

• Some translate files are not completed. Please PR for others.

[1.0.2] : 2019-12-16

• Added: Now command is registrable on runtime through notification TELBOT_REGISTER_COMMAND

[1.0.1] : 2019-09-10

• Added: useWelcomeMessage and verbose

More Information

See the Wiki