Lava Lamp

This is my "lava lamp". I use my old iPad as a picture frame so that it shows beautiful "10 hours" videos.

Actually, this is just a webpage with fullscreen YouYube video. You can change videos remotely via Telegram bot.

How it works

Open index.php in your web browser. It plays a YouTube video and also checks videoId.txt every 10 seconds via Ajax in background. To change video all you have to do is put new YouTube video ID in videoId.txt.

N.B. You can get video ID of any video from its URL: For a video with URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnhvanMdx4s the video ID is wnhvanMdx4s

Telegram bot

Telegram bot uses WSGI so make sure your web server supports this interface (i.e. mod_wsgi is activated in Apache).

Config

1. Create your new Telegram bot via @botfather and insert bot token in file telebot.wsgi on this line:

TOKEN = '1234567890:XXXxxxXXXxxxXXXxxxXXXxxxXXXxxxXXXx' # PLACE YOUR TELEGRAM BOT TOKEN HERE!

2. Set webhook to your server via setWebhook command in Telegram. You can do it in Terminal:

$ curl -X POST -d '{"url":"https://YOU_WEBSERVER_URL/telebot.wsgi"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" "https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_BOT_TOKEN/setWebhook"

Bot commands

Just send your bot any YouTube video URL and it will start playing on your "lava lamp".

Also, supports some commands: /current — Sends you current Lava video ID /list — List these commands (you can change this message in telebot.wsgi)

Furthermore, you can just send bot a video ID with / in this format: /wnhvanMdx4s

BONUS: Here are some beautiful long videos

/wnhvanMdx4s - Our planet from space
/aZ_rw6FDOAM - Lava lamp animation
/L_LUpnjgPso - Fireplace
/Pbzn79TSRO0 — Drone aerial views of Iceland