I've got a group setup with the bot I created. My wife and I are in the group and get the messages
send Telegram notifications with pictures
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Thanks blazin, I can normally work these things out but this has me bomboozled! I must be missing something simple as it cannot be that hard and I have been looking at it all evening!
So I have the bot receiving messages from blue Iris just fine, If I then create a telegram group and add the bot to it no messages generated by the bot show in that group just in the bot channel (so no point adding my wife to the group as no messages are displayed). On my wifes telegram I tried making a group and adding my bot - no messages show on her phone but do on mine.
What should I be doing? should I be creating a new group on my phone, adding the bot and adding my wife also to that group or just creating a new group on her phone and adding the bot to it? or something else as neither of these methods seem to work!
So I have the bot receiving messages from blue Iris just fine, If I then create a telegram group and add the bot to it no messages generated by the bot show in that group just in the bot channel (so no point adding my wife to the group as no messages are displayed). On my wifes telegram I tried making a group and adding my bot - no messages show on her phone but do on mine.
What should I be doing? should I be creating a new group on my phone, adding the bot and adding my wife also to that group or just creating a new group on her phone and adding the bot to it? or something else as neither of these methods seem to work!
I need to look back at the api but I think you need to have the bot send messages to a specific group Id. If you have the ID set as yourself or the bot that won't work.
Nice!! My wife loves our thumbnail/video clip over telegram.
Next step casting the live feed right before the clip gets sent to telegram
I know this is old and you guys most probably moved on. I would like to know it possible for the bot to first ask you to confirm the image before sending it to the group. So the idea is that blue iris sends the alert to telegram as normal to a group. But before it goes onto the group can the bot ask me to confirm image?
I was having some inconsistency on getting telegram alerts using curl with the &ALERT_PATH and Trigger tab setting : When triggered add alerts to Database only. After adding additional logging to the curl command ( -o E:\BlueIrisData\AlertLog\CurlLog_&CAM_%Y%m%d-%H_%M_%S.log --stderr E:\BlueIrisData\AlertLog\CurlERRORLog_&CAM_%Y%m%d-%H_%M_%S.log ) I was able to see in the error log that curl was having problems reading the temporary camera jpg file. The problem did not occur when the trigger tab was set to use HiRes Images as the image file persist after the actions have completed.
Ken with BI support said the (curl) command in the Alert Action list is run as a separate process and that the temporary camera jpeg file is removed upon completion of the action set. This means there is a possible race condition where curl is still reading the temp image file, the action set completes and deletes the temporary file curl is actively using. This could explain why you are having similar problems.
To address this he implemented a new option in the a Run a program/Write to file Alert action: 'Wait for process to complete (up to 30 seconds)'. This prevents the actionset from completing while the curl command is still transmitting the temporary image to telegram.
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Thanks for asking for the option. I'm using a command script that someone else came up with. I only have two cams that use it, but if I had more cams using it, most likely it would have a race condition (like in electronics) and send the wrong image if more than one cam triggered at same time...
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Just set this (images sent to telegram) up today and it is working well with thumbnail. Has anyone gotten it to work with sending a short (30 sec) video like I am doing with email?
fenderman
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There is a tool by @GentlePumpkin to do this.
[tool] Receive Blue Iris Alert Images/Videos on Telegram
This little tool sends your Blue Iris Alert images and mp4 videos to your Telegram chat. Backstory: Since I developed AI Tools a few years ago, Blue Iris nicely integrated AI analysis. The only (big) thing missing for me was the possibility to send Alert images to my Telegram account. So I...
There is a tool by @GentlePumpkin to do this.
[tool] Receive Blue Iris Alert Images/Videos on Telegram
This little tool sends your Blue Iris Alert images and mp4 videos to your Telegram chat. Backstory: Since I developed AI Tools a few years ago, Blue Iris nicely integrated AI analysis. The only (big) thing missing for me was the possibility to send Alert images to my Telegram account. So I...ipcamtalk.com
Yes I have that set up. However I do not see where it creates an mp4 file.
In the alerts page and when setting up for email alert, it lets you specify to attach a mp4 file along with the alert.
With the run program/ script alert that option is not there.
Since I record in bvr format, how do I tell it to send a 30sec mp4 along?
GentlePumpkin
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I'm sure there are several different ways of generating video. I had tried building a video from 5-6 jpeg files via ffmpeg and sending that through Telegram but found the processing time to build the video, send it to telegram, etc took too long and was chewing up lots of bandwidth on cellular data plan. Especially if you have multiple cameras firing at the same time.
Currently, I send the camera specific temp jpeg and add a couple of custom URLs in the notification:
In addtion to the chat info... -F photo=@"E:\BlueIrisData\Video\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH" -F caption="[WatchVid](&WAN/ui3.htm?rec=&ALERT_DB&maximize=1) [Pause1hr](&WAN/admin?profile=6&lock=1) [UNpause](&WAN/admin?profile=1&lock=0) \- &MEMO" -F parse_mode=MarkdownV2
WatchVid will provide a link where I can watch the video if on premise and on wifi; Pause1hr sets the current profile to 6 with a temp time of 60 minutes. Telegram alert notifications are not allowed in profile 6. Unpause if I want to go back to main profile with alerts.
This way the alerts are fast and I have some context from the single jpg, video can be viewed quickly locally. I can manually launch VPN and click the URL for video of the event.
Apple user here -- the part I'd love to get working next is setting up iPhone profile that invokes VPN on demand (for openVPN profile) based on domain name used in my blue iris &WAN. In theory I would have quick access to the video on premise or remote.
Currently, I send the camera specific temp jpeg and add a couple of custom URLs in the notification:
In addtion to the chat info... -F photo=@"E:\BlueIrisData\Video\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH" -F caption="[WatchVid](&WAN/ui3.htm?rec=&ALERT_DB&maximize=1) [Pause1hr](&WAN/admin?profile=6&lock=1) [UNpause](&WAN/admin?profile=1&lock=0) \- &MEMO" -F parse_mode=MarkdownV2
WatchVid will provide a link where I can watch the video if on premise and on wifi; Pause1hr sets the current profile to 6 with a temp time of 60 minutes. Telegram alert notifications are not allowed in profile 6. Unpause if I want to go back to main profile with alerts.
This way the alerts are fast and I have some context from the single jpg, video can be viewed quickly locally. I can manually launch VPN and click the URL for video of the event.
Apple user here -- the part I'd love to get working next is setting up iPhone profile that invokes VPN on demand (for openVPN profile) based on domain name used in my blue iris &WAN. In theory I would have quick access to the video on premise or remote.
hopalong
Getting the hang of it
I just set this up. So far been working great. Here is my parameter string:
Code:
https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxxx:xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/sendphoto -F chat_id=xxxxxxxxx -F photo=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH -F caption="[*&NAME*](http://10.10.30.10:81/ui3.htm?t=live&cam=&CAM) \- &MEMO" -F parse_mode=MarkdownV2