[tool] Receive Blue Iris Alert Images/Videos on Telegram

Hi!
Thanks for the job,i will test it, as i use a batch to send my alerts to telegram via BI since two years.
It is possible to make it as service, to be sure that it will launch at startup, and restart if it fail?
Same thing to move sended files to another directory?

and again, thanks for the job!
 
Hi!
Thanks for the job,i will test it, as i use a batch to send my alerts to telegram via BI since two years.
It is possible to make it as service, to be sure that it will launch at startup, and restart if it fail?
Same thing to move sended files to another directory?

and again, thanks for the job!
 
was anyone able to get this resolved ? I am getting the following error also

[01.01.2024, 00:34:10]: WARNING: Could not upload file H:\test/Front.jpg to Telegram. Upload retry 9
[01.01.2024, 00:34:10]: ERROR: Could not upload file H:\test/Front.jpg to Telegram.
 
Todd Edmundson said:
was anyone able to get this resolved ? I am getting the following error also

[01.01.2024, 00:34:10]: WARNING: Could not upload file H:\test/Front.jpg to Telegram. Upload retry 9
[01.01.2024, 00:34:10]: ERROR: Could not upload file H:\test/Front.jpg to Telegram.
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Is it just a typo or do you really have a forward slash in the path to the file, that might be why it can not upload a file with an invalid path name!
 
Bruce_H said:
Is it just a typo or do you really have a forward slash in the path to the file, that might be why it can not upload a file with an invalid path name!
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the app is putting that slash and I don't know how to remove it I thought that might be the issue
 
Has anyone found a solution?

I'm currently trying it and the slash is automatically inserted the "/" and it doesn't manage to send pictures or videos to Telegram.
 
Same issue here. I even swapped the file path to all forward slashes and get the same error (You can actually use forward slashes in the file path if you're consistent) so not sure why it's causing problems unless the Telegram API maybe changed?
 
same here, it just doesn't work anymore, and the logs tell me nothing, not any clue:

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[24.04.2024, 21:28:05]: 1.
[24.04.2024, 21:28:05]: 2.
[24.04.2024, 21:28:05]: WARNING: Could not upload file C:\BlueIris\Alerts/TGR_Annke_1.20240424_165338.3110985.3-1.jpg to Telegram. Upload retry 9
[24.04.2024, 21:28:05]: ERROR: Could not upload file C:\BlueIris\Alerts/TGR_Annke_1.20240424_165338.3110985.3-1.jpg to Telegram.
 
hopalong said:
Thank you for the tool. Is there a way for TUT to only upload the confirmed AI marked-up alert images? When I use the: "Images: Blue Iris -> Camera Settings -> Record -> JPEGs: When alerted & Folder: your Input path from above" the image does not contain the item I am looking for versus what is shown in the Alerts
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I found a fix. Under the Alerts tab, there is an ACTION button. One of the actions is to send the alerted image to FTP. Just FTP it to your TUT folder, and you will get the alert image sent to your Telegram account. There is also a "copy local" if you don't want to FTP.
 
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blulite said:
I found a fix. Under the Alerts tab, there is an ACTION button. One of the actions is to send the alerted image to FTP. Just FTP it to your TUT folder, and you will get the alert image sent to your Telegram account. There is also a "copy local" if you don't want to FTP.
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Nice work around. I ended up just using CURL in BI to send the image to Telegram. It's been working really well.
 
blulite said:
Nice, I didn’t think of that. Please share the curl format.
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Here is how I have it setup.

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Here is the parameter field:

https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYY/sendphoto -F chat_id=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ -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


Replace the XXXXXX:YYYYYYYY and ZZZZZZZ with the appropriate info.

Here is where I found the info for this with more details like setting up CURL: How To Send Blue Iris Images to Telegram - Smart Home Pursuits
 
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hopalong said:
Here is how I have it setup.

Here is the parameter field:

https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYY/sendphoto -F chat_id=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ -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


Replace the XXXXXX:YYYYYYYY and ZZZZZZZ with the appropriate info.

Here is where I found the info for this with more details like setting up CURL: How To Send Blue Iris Images to Telegram - Smart Home Pursuits
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Hummm... How to tell you that it will perfectly send my own old batched curl script to the trash ;)

Just work perfectly and fawlessly for me!

Many many thanks to you for your share!!!
 
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I'm using this program to upload images from a FTP location. It keeps closing for some reason. Is there any way to troubleshoot why?
 
this is a great program but not working for me.
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it knew there's a file to upload but froze in the process....

here's the JPG file it found and tried to upload
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error log shows:
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Is it because TUT chat api and ID matches my HA's config file?
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I can't beleive I missed this excellent tool for so long! It works perfectly and is totally reliable.
I have been using AITool for years but I had a requirement for Telegram alerts to be sent after triggering from a smart home device (post box openeing) . I had been trying to work around AITool to make it always detect something but this works perfectly and has the added benefit of being able to send me a short vidoe of the event. Very happy! I originally asked the question in the AITool thread. I'll answer my own postthere now and point them in this direction.
 
I recently started using this with my existing Telegram Bot and it has been working great but now I wanted to add another installation on a different server. I've created a new BOT and got the chat ID but it fails to upload after 10 attempts . I notice a couple have people have had this problem earlier in this thread. It preume it's something that has changed with new bots because I also run AITool and the same ID & Token work correctly in that. I also tried using my previous ID & Token from the first machine and that works so it isn't the install on this second machine. (I also tried it the other way around and have created yet another bot and tried that)
 
bigscout79 said:
Thanks for this!

I'm having a little trouble though.

Code: 
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: Upload to <chatid deleted> on Telegram started.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  1
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  2
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  3
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  4
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  5
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  6
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  7
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  8
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      1.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]:      2.
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: WARNING: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram. Upload retry  9
[25.09.2023, 11:48:58]: ERROR: Could not upload file F:\BlueIris\export/FrontDrive.20230925_113000_1.mp4 to Telegram.

Edit:
I am able to post manually through a browser to the api and get a notification on my phone.
I checked windows firewall and do not see any blocks. I tried a manual allow rule with - no improvement.
I also tried dropping a jpg in there (the mp4 were all under 50mb, but thought it might be a size issue) - no improvement.
Nothing in the event viewer except TUT did crash the first time it tried to do something
The program TelegramUploadTool.exe version 1.0.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.​
Process ID: 2894​
Start Time: 01d9efcebf3f6c80​
Termination Time: 8​
Application Path: C:\Util\TelegramUploadTool\TelegramUploadTool.exe​
Report Id: 52e8aa36-2693-4262-b09e-87352e11abba​
Faulting package full name:​
Faulting package-relative application ID:​
Hang type: Cross-thread​

Should I be running the .exe or is there an installer?
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did anyone ever get this issue figured out? My TUT is doing the same thing
 
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