I use the fantastic motion project to monitor my apartment activity when I’m not home (not happening until God knows when these days…). I wanted it to warn me when there’s movement more interactively than with a basic email. Telegram and its very well documented bot API is really perfect for this task, so I came up with the following motion configuration:
on_picture_save /bin/sh /home/imil/bin/on_picture_save.sh %f and more importantly, the following script: