/micropython-telegram-api

Educational purpose project, connecting to Telegram Bots API from MicroPython

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Connecting to Telegram Bots API

In this repository I'm connecting to Telegram Bots API from a ESP-32 microcontroller using MicroPython / Python as programming language.

Concept

What I wanted to do is like a proof of concept on how to do a "smart doorbell application", I don't have any server on my own so I'm gonna use Telegram API to make it.

How to run it

  • Prerequisites

    • ampy tool.

      Tool for flashing python scripts to the ESP-32

    • esptool.py tool.

      Tool for flashing the Python Interpreter to the ESP-32

  • Steps

    If you wanna get this project up, you gonna have to clone it and create the file config.py where you gonna put all of the credentials specified in config.py.example.

    I'm using "ampy" tool to flash the python scripts boot.py and config.py, if you have all of the prerequisites then just run the bash script flash_firmware followed by flash_mp, here is a example on how to do it:

    $ ./flash_firmware

$ ./flash_mp

    Note:

    You just need to run flash_firmware the first time, it is very heavy to execute that command and it's only needed when you wanna use MicroPython for the first time.

I hope you find it useful.