Push live system stats to the cloud

Telegram is an encrypted, private messaging service with an open API that is really easy to use. In this tutorial we shall build a Telegram Bot, code that reacts to commands issued by the user from inside Telegram. Our bot will give us the latest CPU temperature, CPU usage and current available R AM for a Raspberry Pi.

SOFTWARE SETUP

Before any code can be written, we first need to sign up for a Telegram account. There are many clients for Windows, Linux and mobile devices. For this tutorial it would be prudent to install the desktop and then tell The BotFather that we wish to create a new bot.