imontesino / suckerfish-bot

Code for a telegram bot running out of a pi zero pc inside a bigger PC

Suckerfish

The idea in this project is to have a pi zero stuck with double sided tape to the inside of your pc. Its main functionality is to power and/or reset the bigger pc remotely. My main use case is a dual boot system, where I have to remote into Ubuntu (ssh, TeamViewer, etc.) for my work and into Windows for accessing a photo archive and gamestreaming via moonlight.

Raspberry Pi Zero W Setup

Install raspbian buster image. Here is a convinient way:

Download and install rpi-imager. This is a GUI tool to easily install raspbian images. It also allows to setup of ssh keys and wifi before hand.

This video shows how to do it.

Choose the rasbian buster lite x32 image.

Installation

If installed correctly you can now acess the pi zero via ssh.

ssh pi@suckerfish_hostname

Once there install some dependencies

sudo apt-get install git python3-pip

Geŋenerate an ssh key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "MyEmailAddress" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Ssh from the pi to the pc to save the key

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub your_username@pc_ip_address

Clone the repo to the home directory of the pi zero.

$ cd ~/
$ git clone https://github.com/imontesino/suckerfish-bot

Install the python dependencies.

$ cd ~/suckerfish-bot
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Add your bot token to the config file.

Then copy the service file to the systemd folder.

$ sudo cp /home/pi/suckerfish_bot/resources/suckerfish_bot.service /etc/systemd/system/