ANTBOT

A telegram bot create time-lapse video and publish to channel. It uses ffmpeg to do the record and encode job. You can find out the command line arguments passed to ffmpeg in grab.go.

Synopsis

You'll need a working ffmpeg in your path, and ensure it can record video from your cam.

Publish to Telegram channel

You'll need a Telegram bot token, refer to Telgram official site to find out how you get one. Store the token in a file, say token in current directory.

# Generally, we use v4l to grab cam in linux
antbot -ch mychannelname -f v4l2 -i /dev/your_cam -seg 3600 -size 640x480 -spf 1 -t token

Publish via scp

You'll need a working ssh client in path. Antbot will not ask password or accept unknown host, so you have to authorize via key and add correct entry in your known_hosts file.

antbot -f v4l2 -i /dev/your_cam -seg 3600 -size 640x480 -spf 1 -scp you@example.com:path/to/web/ant.mp4

See antbot -h for detailed usage.

License

Any version of GPL, LGPL or AGPL.