Setup

To set up a comprehensive water monitoring system, you need to configure a server entity and at least one measurement point to send data to the server.

In this chapter, we will guide you through setting up the server and dashboard using two methods:

1. Using Docker

2. Installing from Source

We strongly recommend using the Docker method for its simplicity and reliability.

Setup of the server

Docker

From source

Configure Warningbot

Telegram

1. Contact Botfather

   1. Open the telegram app on your smartphone and search for user botfather:

      New Chat –> Search for Botfather

   2. type /start to start a new conversation and /newbot to create a new bot

   3. Name the new bot

   4. Give the bot a new username

   Now you can go to the website http://t.me/<your_bot_username> and add a description for the bot. Your will get a token to access the telegram HTTP API.

2. Create a group for your users to be warned

3. Add your bot to the group.

4. Copy creds.json.template file to a json and add your telegram configuration

5. Enter API token, group_name and username to /Server/Warningbot/telegram/creds.json

6. Start the find_group_id.py-script in the telegram-directory. It will automatically add the group id to your telegram-creds.json and enables messaging via telegram.

Email

1. Copy creds.json.template file to a json and add your mail server configuration

   cd Server/Warningbot/email
   cp creds.json.tmpl creds.json
   

2. Enable mail notification in the server config file Server/config.cfg in the warning-section-

Signal

Setup of a measurement point