Prototype pf a telegram bot to conveniently add data to the ELN. We plan to couple it also with some online analysis (e.g. image recognition) or integrate it with lab automation. The idea is to enable a workflow as shown below
Details of this approach are described in our preprint.
The bot is deployed at t.me/epfl_eln_bot.
For simple testing without upload on EPFL internal servers, one can host it on glitch. If the upload to the samba share for images is needed, it is important to have the corresponding share mounted in the filesystem of the server which is running the bot.
Environmental variables that need to be set:
TELEGRAM_TOKEN: Telegram token for the bot.IMAGE_STORAGE_PATH: Path at which the samba share for image upload is mounted.
You can declare those in a .env file.