EscortBot - Telegram Bot for Home Server Monitoring

🚀 Overview

Telegram bot for monitoring home server services. Currently supports SSH connection monitoring with real-time alerts.

📋 Requirements

• Python 3.12+
• Linux system
• Dependencies: see requirements.txt

🤖 Getting the chat id

1. Create a bot via @BotFather in Telegram.
2. When filling in the config.conf file, create and leave the chat_id field empty.
3. Launch the bot and get your chat ID by sending /start to the bot.

🔧 Configuration

Configuration file - config.conf When filling in the config.conf file, you can use both environment variables inside linux and from the .env file. If you do not want to use environment variables, then enter the parameter values instead.

For example

bot_token ESCORT_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN          # Via service variables
bot_token 123456789:AAAbbbCccDddEeeFffGggHhh # Entering values directly

🚦 Usage

Launch file TelegramBot_for_HomeServer.py

📝 Logs

• Output to the console + write to a file
• Default log file: escort.log in the program directory
• The logging level is configured in config.conf debug_level

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file