Send Video to Telegram Bot Using Raspberry Pi Camera

Introduction

Do you want to send a video to the telegram bot using a raspberry pi? In this tutorial, we record a video using Raspberry Pi camera and send the video to the Telegram bot. The default video file recorded by Raspberry Pi by default is an H264 file. Telegram cannot play this type of video file. So, we need to convert the video to an mp4 file before we send it to the Telegram bot.

Video

This video shows how to get make a simple security system that can record a video using Raspberry Pi Camera and send it to telegram bot.

Hardware Preparation

This is the list of items used in the video.

Sample Program

This is python3 sample program for sending a video to telegram. You can use it with Thonny Python IDE.

Thank You

References:

• Telegram Bot on Raspberry Pi
• How to convert h264 video to mp4 on Raspberry Pi
• MP4Box

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