# motion2telegram
> Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. I.e., it can detect motion.
Setup a Raspberry Pi with motion2telegram to
- send a picture to a Telegram user/group if motion is detected
- activate/deactivate motion detection by scanning for the prescence of your mobile phone(s) using bluetooth
Use motion2telegram to apply a pre-configured set of motion and systemd service configuration files and Python scripts to
setup your Raspberry Pi.
## Stack
- Raspberry Pi
- 1 B+
- 4 B
- Zero W V1.1
- Raspberry Pi OS
- Lite (32-bit) (Port of Debian Bookworm)
- Lite (64-bit)
- Python 3.11.2
- Motion 4.5.1
- Logitech C270 HD WEBCAM
## Prerequisites
- A Raspberry Pi setup with a working network configuration and connected to the internet
- The Linux BlueZ Bluetooth stack
- Installed by default in the latest Raspberry Pi OS
- [Motion](https://motion-project.github.io/motion_build.html) installed
- A [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) account
- A Telegram [bot token](https://core.telegram.org/bots/tutorial#obtain-your-bot-token)
- The bluetooth MAC address(es) of your mobile phone(s)
- Bluetooth enabled on your mobile phone(s)
- A user on Raspberry Pi OS to run the motion service. motion2telegram installation and motion service configuration is done in the context of this user. The user MUST be a member of the groups _motion_ and _video_
- A Python virtual environment
## Install with pip
Login with the user created to run the motion service. Create a directory, e.g. motion2telegram, and cd into it. From here on, you'll work in this directory. Create and activate a Python virtual environment and then
```bash
(venv) $ pip install motion2telegram
...
# Verify by version
(venv) $ motion2telegram -V
x.y.z
(venv) $
```
## Configuration
Create a `motion.env` file with the following command.
```bash
(venv) $ motion2telegram --init
```
This file is used by
- the motion service to retrieve
- the Telegram bot token and
- the recipient's chat id.
- the mobile phone scanner to retrieve
- bluetooth MAC address(es) and
- the scan interval
Specify your Telegram chat id and bot token in the file `motion.env`
```bash
# motion.env
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=
```
Specify the bluetooth MAC address(es) and time between scans in `motion.env`
```bash
BLUETOOTH_ADDRESSES_PHONES=
MOBILE_PHONE_SCAN_INTERVAL=300
```
Configure motion with
```bash
(venv) $ motion2telegram --configure
```
This will install preconfigured files using the environment variables set in `motion.env` and references to Python scripts to run.
- `/etc/motion/motion.conf`
- `/lib/systemd/system/motion.service.` and
- `/lib/systemd/system/mobile_phone_scan.service`
Motion is configured to write
- logs into `log/motion.log` and
- media files into `media/YYYYMMDD`
relative to the current directory. Media captured on the same date are grouped together in a `YYYYMMDD` directory.
The motion and mobile_phone_scan systemd services will reference the `motion.env` file in the current directory for the chat id, bot token, bluetooth MAC address(es) and scan interval. The command will stop, configure and bring the motion and mobile_phone_scan service back up. If you need it, motion's process-id is written to motion.pid in the directory you installed motion2telegram.
## Reference
- [Motion](https://motion-project.github.io/)
- [Telegram](https://telegram.org/)
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