Send your IP

Sends your IP to a Telegram bot you own. It's useful to connect your Raspberry Pi when you don't know how to leave it with a static IP.

How it works

To make this code work you must change the lines 31 & 32 with the variables token and user respectively.

Getting your token

To get a token, enter to your Telegram account and look for @BotFather. Create a new token with the command '/newbot' then just follow the instructions and you will get a token.

Getting your user id

Look for the bot @JsonDumpBot , and you will receive a message that will include the parameter "message"{"chat":{"id"}}. This number is you user id.

After getting these items, add them to the file, and run it.

Taking advantage in a Raspberry Pi.

To use this as a daemon each time you run your Raspberry Pi, you must follow these instructions in the terminal: First save the main file as .ip.py (the dot before the name is to hide the file instead of having it public) in your folder /home/YOUR-USER-DIRECTORY. run the command sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ip.service and write in it this content:

[Unit]
Description=Sends IP
Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=idle
WorkingDirectory=/home/YOUR-USER-DIRECTORY
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/YOUR-USER-DIRECTORY/.ip.py
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then save it. Now run:

systemctl enable ip
systemctl daemon-reload

After this, reboot your raspberry pi, and you will receive the message to your Telegram account.

Notice that this will only work when you're connecting to a network already registered in your Raspberry Pi, so first you will need to run your Raspberry Pi to make all this process. After it, next time you just turn on your Raspberry Pi it will send the message automatically without any other reuirement.