valegram-bot

A Telegram Bot for Valetudo

This bot allows controlling a Valetudo instance via Telegram. It runs directly on the vacuum robot, using the runtime provided by Valetudo.

Please note that this bot is in its very early stages of development and is targeted at more technically inclined users.

This bot uses the Valetudo HTTP-API v2. Support for MQTT is not (yet?) implemented.

Installation

Installation is a bit complicated, due to how Telegram Bots work.

Step 1: Create Telegram Bot

Create a Telegram Bot using Botfather. Remember the token. Start the bot by adding it to your contacts and clicking the "Start" button.

Step 2: Download valegram-bot

Download the latest valegram-bot release to your robot. Run this command, adjusting v0.1.2 to the latest release.

Dreame

cd /data
wget -O valegram-bot.js https://github.com/ccoors/valegram-bot/releases/download/v0.1.2/valegram-bot.js

Roborock

mkdir /mnt/data/valegram
cd /mnt/data/valegram
wget -O valegram-bot.js https://github.com/ccoors/valegram-bot/releases/download/v0.1.2/valegram-bot.js

Step 3: Setup valegram-bot

Start the bot directly from the shell. Replace $$$BOT_TOKEN$$$ with the token obtained from BotFather earlier.

Dreame

PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$" ./valetudo valegram-bot.js

Roborock

PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$" /usr/local/bin/valetudo /mnt/data/valegram/valegram-bot.js

The bot needs to know which chats to respond to - otherwise everybody could control your robot. You can use the /chat_id command in Telegram to get your chat id (eg. 104325692).

Try it out!

Dreame

PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$" CHAT_IDS='[$$$CHAT_ID$$$]' ./valetudo valegram-bot.js

Roborock

PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$" CHAT_IDS='[$$$CHAT_ID$$$]' /usr/local/bin/valetudo /mnt/data/valegram/valegram-bot.js

Dreame

Stop the bot (CTRL+C) and add it to your autostart script (/data/_root_postboot.sh on Dreame). I suggest extending the final if-block like this (replace $$$CHAT_ID$$$ with your chat id):

if [[ -f /data/valetudo ]]; then
        VALETUDO_CONFIG_PATH=/data/valetudo_config.json /data/valetudo > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        sleep 30
        PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$" CHAT_IDS='[$$$CHAT_ID$$$]' /data/valetudo /data/valegram-bot.js > /tmp/valegram-log.log 2>&1 &
fi

Alternatively, create a wrapper shell-script, which may prove more to be maintainable in the future.

Roborock

Stop the bot (CTRL+C) and create an autostart script:

cd /etc/init
touch S999valegram
chmod +x S999valegram

Edit the script with nano nano S999valegram and add the folowing script (replace $$$BOT_TOKEN$$$ and $$$CHAT_ID$$$).

#!/bin/sh

export PKG_EXECPATH=PKG_INVOKE_NODEJS
export VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$$$BOT_TOKEN$$$"
export CHAT_IDS='[$$$CHAT_ID$$$]'

load() {
    echo "starting valegram, process will be ready in about 35 seconds."
    start-stop-daemon -S -b -q -m -p /var/run/valegram.pid -x bash -- -c 'sleep 30; /usr/local/bin/valetudo /mnt/data/valegram/valegram-bot.js'
}

unload() {
    echo "stopping valegram"
    start-stop-daemon -K -q -p /var/run/valegram.pid
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        load
        ;;
    stop)
        unload
        ;;
    restart)
        unload
        load
        ;;
    *)
        echo "$0 <start/stop/restart>"
        ;;
esac

You can try starting the valegram service (startup is delayed by 30 seconds):

/etc/init/S999valegram start

If everything works, valegram should start on startup of your robot.

Step 5: Add commands to BotFather (optional)

Run the /help command in Telegram. Remove the / from each line, use /setcommands in BotFather and set the command block.

Configuration

valegram-bot is configured through environment variables.

Variable	Description	Default
VALEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	The bot token	""
VALETUDO_URL	The URL Valetudo can be reached under	http://localhost/
VALETUDO_HTTP_TIMEOUT	The timeout for HTTP requests to Valetudo	10_000
VALETUDO_AUTH_USERNAME	The username for HTTP-Basic-Auth	""
VALETUDO_AUTH_PASSWORD	The password for HTTP-Basic-Auth	""
CHAT_IDS	The chat ids valegram-bot should respond to. JSON array of numbers.	[]
ICBINV_URL	If you run ICBINV with an enabled webserver, set the URL to ICBINV_URL=http://ICBINV_HOST:3000/api/map/image to enable the /map command	""