motion-tracker

motion tracker for raspberry pi with camera module that sends photos and videos on motion detection to a given telegram chat bot

how to use

• install telegram on your device
• create your own telegram bot
• clone this repo to your pi
• create a .env file

  BOT_TOKEN=[YOUR_BOT_TOKEN]
  

• install node
• install dependencies
  • npm i
• start app
  • npm run start
• [optional] for development, install nodemon
• [optional] for production, install forever
• [optional] for automatic start on reboot, use crontab

    @reboot BOT_TOKEN=[YOUR-BOT-TOKEN] forever start /path/to/project/index.js