Python + telegram bot + blynk = love)

[Xandr]

I like Blynk and also I like telegram. I wrote a telegram bot in python which helps me managing my IoT projects at home. You can managing different progects in one menu. Watch a demo:

Python

• Install libs:

pip install python-telegram-bot
pip install blynkapi

• Copy template python code from GitHub

Create telegram bot

• First of all you need install telegram to your device
• Talk to BotFather for creating your own bot
• Copy your bot id to python program blynkbot.py as var tokenid

Blynk

• Create project link
• Add hardware link
• Get auth token and copy it to python program blynkbot.py as var my_project
• Create or modify objects in blynkbot.py (k_amp_power, k_amp_src, k_light)
• Run your bot ./blynkbot.py

Details

• python-telegram-bot
• blynkapi

Issue

• Can’t talk to bot via Google voice. issue
• Doesn’t check hardware connection status before send a value to Blynk API.

[Dmitriy]

Wow. Nice. I also wanted to created bot for slack but never had a time to make it .

[Costas]

@Dmitriy I was thinking today about a Python shell widget? Any chance?

[Xandr]

Slack also have a good lib in python) but not so powerful as telegram.