faxii

faxii is the nickname of a little thermal printer on my desk, and this repo has the source code for the Telegram bot that controls it.

Current version: 1.0

Changelog

Required packages:

• python-telegram-bot
• escpos
• tinydb
• datetime
• Pillow
• emoji
• ujson

Features

• Prints text, images, stickers, and images disguised as documents
• Extracts URLs from text, and prints them as QR codes
• Prints images in portrait layout, unless they'd be super long, then it just prints them landscape
• Print license support, including grant/revoke rights for owner
• Is just generally pretty neat?
• Prints timestamp on messages from anyone other than admin, timezones from this list are supported.

Config file

The bot requires a file in it's root directory, named config.json, with the following layout:

{ "token": "your_bot_token",
"admin_id": your_id,
"port": "your_printer_port",
"baud": your_printer_baudrate,
"auto_cut": true_false_auto_cut,
"max_width": your_max_print_width,
"timezone": "your_timezone",
"url_start_tags": ["https://", "http:/"],
"url_end_tags": [" ", ". ", "\n", ", ", "https://", "http:/"]}

To Do

• Image > ASCII art converter
• Haiku recognition
• Support for re-requesting a print license after it's been revoked
• More feedback for the user
• Logging
• Code comments

More likely to be up-to-date To Do list

Trello