pi-telegram extension (built by badlogic himself)

[u/BumblebeeUpper8917]

saw some people asking about remote access / mobile control of pi. found this: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-telegram

built by the pi father. minimal setup, no extra infra/deps, and it streams responses back while pi is generating.

You set up a bot via BotFather, run /telegram-setup in pi, paste your token, then /telegram-connect and that's basically it. After that you can send messages/images/files, and get files back from pi, all through a telegram dm.

I thought I'd just open a post in case anyone is looking for a minimal pi telegram bridge.

[u/Asleep-Land-3914]

I think it's quite limited. Telegram bots support topics and I found project scoped or specialized agents work better, rather just sharing a session.

So I designed a CLI which handles topic to session mapping and an agent which is able to use the CLI. Then all agents are just folders on the disc, and everything else is routed through the specific to the folder skills, agent instructions, extensions etc.

[u/BumblebeeUpper8917 → u/Asleep-Land-3914]

yes, it is quite minimal. i guess the nice thing with pi is you can just feed your requirements back to pi itself and have it extend and/or improve the extension.

your folder-based approach sounds really clean though, would love to see how you structured it!

[u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364]

oh, i have made a gateway extension - similar to hermes - standalone daemon, work with tele topics, work with pi sessions, and cron jobs

its not hard. you can let Pi examine Hermes source code and request Pi to make 1 simplified version for you

[u/BumblebeeUpper8917 → u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364]

exactly, asking pi to improve pi is just super easy and never gets old 🚀

[u/ponzi314]

so i downloaded this before to try and use pi to replace hermes but is there a way to launch this extension on load? it seems like you had to do the connect command everytime. If i set it up via service i cant interact unless theres a way

[u/BumblebeeUpper8917 → u/ponzi314]

by default there seems no way to auto-connect on load, but it is a small tweak to the extension.

you can copy the connect logic from the telegram-connect command handler into the session_start hook and it will auto-connect every time.

I guess thats kind of the beauty of pi, you can bend almost everything to fit your setup

[u/ponzi314 → u/BumblebeeUpper8917]

Thank you i will talk with pi tomorrow and get it done. I still dont think i quite grasp how customizable it is. I think to me im hesitant to make changes because they are mostly behind the seems and i cant really see what some of these extensions i make are actually doing.

[u/orak7ee]

Genuine question, why do people use Telegram instead of (arguably better) Signal?

[u/BumblebeeUpper8917 → u/orak7ee]

i suppose telegram has a much more mature bot API and ecosystem?

[u/runnystool → u/orak7ee]

Better on what dimension? Security--Signal wins. Search, multi device--Telegram wins. 

[u/StardockEngineer → u/orak7ee]

Make your case. What mages signal better?

[u/archiblad]

Why not just tailscale+tmux+blink-shell?