Screen Time Buddy

A demonstration project part of my tech talk at Pearl Hacks 2022 entitled "How To Think About Problems."

Getting Started

1. Clone the project from GitHub, and change into the project directory $ cd pearl-hacks-2022
2. Rename the .env.example file to .env (e.g. $ mv .env.example .env)
3. Follow the instructions on https://core.telegram.org/bots to create your bot secrets (step 6).
4. Edit the .env file and update it with your secrets.
5. Install Python3.10 or higher (see if you have it installed $ python3 -V)
6. Create a virtual environment with $ python3 -m venv venv
7. Activate your virtual environment $ source venv/bin/activate
8. Install the project dependencies (venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
9. Run the application (venv) $ python main.py