Mikrotik, a telegram notification about a successful login

Igor Mullin
3 min readAug 21, 2021

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A router is a device that not only organizes a home network, but also protects it from the outside world. If someone gets access to your router, you can get into big problems or even lose money or privacy.

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A smart home will also be at risk if we are hacked. Let’s protect ourselves a little. We will receive notifications that someone has logged in. There are many different ways, but I always choose #telegram. I got the idea here. For understanding, I recommend reading my article. There are answers to questions about the #id and the token. Let’s start, go to the scripts and create one. Settings → scripts → create a new one

Name: Log2Telega
Policy: read,write, police, test
Source:
:local DeviceName [/system identity get name];
:local Time [/system clock get time];
:local Date [/system clock get date];
:local TelegramMessageText;
:global ParseLogAccountEndArrayID;
:local IDsEventsAccount [/log find where topics ~ “account”];
:local LenArrayIDs [:len $IDsEventsAccount];
:local StartArrayID [:find $IDsEventsAccount $ParseLogAccountEndArrayID];
:local EndArrayID ($IDsEventsAccount -> ($LenArrayIDs-1));
:if ($EndArrayID != $ParseLogAccountEndArrayID and [:tobool $ParseLogAccountEndArrayID] ) do={
:local StartArray [:find $IDsEventsAccount $ParseLogAccountLastRunID];
:for KeyArray from=($StartArrayID+1) to=($LenArrayIDs-1) do={
:local IDMessage ($IDsEventsAccount ->$KeyArray );
:set TelegramMessageText “$TelegramMessageText %0D%0A $[/log get number=$IDMessage time] — $[/log get number=$IDMessage message];”;
}
# START SEND TELEGRAM MESSAGE
:local BotToken “here we enter our token for telegram. strictly inside the quotation marks”;
:local ChatID “here we write the chat id. It can be WE or a public group”;
:local ParseMode “html”;
:local DisableWebPagePreview True;
:local SendText “\F0\9F\94\93 <b>$DeviceName: AUTH</b> $TelegramMessageText”;
:local tgUrl “https://api.telegram.org/bot$BotToken/sendMessage?chat_id=$ChatID&text=$SendText&parse_mode=$ParseMode&disable_web_page_preview=$DisableWebPagePreview";
/tool fetch http-method=get url=$tgUrl keep-result=no;
# END SEND TELEGRAM MESSAGE
}
:set ParseLogAccountEndArrayID $EndArrayID;
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I remind you that we take the #token and id according to this instruction (Ru). A screen of the window where we insert the #script is below.

The next step is to add our script to the distribution. Settings → schedule → create a new

Name: log2telega
Policy: read,write, police, test
On Event: /system script run Log2Telega
Comment: log2telega run every 1 min

The main thing here is that the correct name of our script should be after the “run”. We save and log in to the #router and rejoice at the result:

Of course, such actions will only allow us to monitor the situation, but they will not save us completely. However, together with a working #firewall, this is already something

And that’s all, subscribe, likes, repost… And we will soon be a small lottery ☺.

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Igor Mullin

I´m a Hardware and Software Engineer and a PhD. In my professional activity I focus on such things like smart home systems and electric development.