A Telegram bot to bridge UniFi Video e-mail alerts with Telegram messages in a single group. When motion is detected, you will receive a message in the configured group with the snapshot and snapshot timestamp. It will also send the subject of non-motion alert emails, e.g: camera disconnect/reconnect

Setting up as Docker container

1. Build the container by running docker build .

2. docker run -v /path/to/config_dir/:/config --net=host

Setting up the bot

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
4. Run /start and /enable in the group

Setting up UniFi Video

Visit your UniFi Video settings and follow the following steps:

1. Enable e-mail alerts in your UniFi Video environment
2. Use the following settings:
   • SMTP server: 127.0.0.1 (or the port you specified in the config.yaml)
   • Port: 8025 (or the port you specified in the config.yaml)
3. Save changes

Commands

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.
• /status: show status (active/inactive)
• /e, /enable: enable notifications
• /de, /disable: 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