Lights On

Use Telegram Bot and GitHub Workflows to notify you about power supply status on your OpenWRT router.

Installation

• Telegram Bot setup
  • Create a Telegram Bot
  • Obtain the Telegram bot token
• GitHub setup
  • Fork this repository
  • Create personal GitHub access token
  • Add Telegram bot token TELEGRAM_TOKEN secret to your repository
• Router setup
  • Install OpenWrt on your Router
  • Install curl and jq:
    opkg update && opkg install curl jq
  • Set the following variables in the lightson script:
    • TELEGRAM_TOKEN - Telegram bot token
    • GH_USER - Your GitHub user
    • GH_TOKEN - Your personal GitHub access token
  • Copy lightson script to /usr/bin/ on the router. Make sure it's executable and owned by root
  • Copy etc/init.d/lightson script to /etc/init.d/lightson on the router. Make sure it's executable and owned by root
  • Enable and start the service:
    /etc/init.d/lightson enable && /etc/init.d/lightson start