Telegram Bot to Control a Light Bulb using Python

In this project, we’ll create a Telegram Bot using python-telegram-bot and deploy it to Heroku. It is also programmed to control a feed on Adafruit. The program sends values of 1 and 0 to the feed and turns the status indicator on or off.

Before starting

You will have to sign up for the following services:

• a Heroku account, which is a free cloud platform
• a Telegram account, on which we will build our bot
• an Adafruit account

Commands

This bot takes 3 commands: /start ,/lighton and /lightoff

• Command /start will return a message instructing the user to give the appropriate inputs
• /lighton will display the message “Light has been turned ON”. It will also return an image of a lit bulb and will send a value to Adafruit indicating that its ON. …