Help with Telegram Redbot

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’m using this to set up notifications.

I’ve got it working great for me, sending pictures and notifications. I’ve been trying to have my wife get the notifications and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I’ve added myself, the bot, and my wife to a group, and nothing ever comes into the group, I get the notifications directly to my chat with the bot.

I’ve added her to allowed chat_id’s but I don’t think that does anything unless I’m using notify.telegram service. I haven’t tested that yet, cause I’d like have the logs that Redbot allows me to setup.

Here’s how I have RedBot setup for the Sender and Reciever Node -

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You have to specify the chat ID in your flow. Group chats start with a -

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I think I just figured that out. Looks like I need to specify in the conversation node. I’ve got the group ID already.

Thanks!

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How would I kick off a notification from Redbot from a call service node?

This is not working at all, but according to the documentation, it should be.

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Maybe I’ll just start using the notify.telegram service…

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I ended up just using a standard call service node and the telegram_bot domain to send the notification to my telegram bot group.

On a separate question, Can someone point me in the right direction for issuing commands to a bot with standard sentences? For example, “Arm the House” instead of /arm.

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My flow goes from conversation > text > telegram sender, but you have to format your payload before it will be recognized.

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A change node will work for this, correct?

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Yes. You just need to format the payload to what chatbot is expecting

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Has anybody installed Redbot on Node Red running as a Hass add on recently? I get a bunch of dependency errors. Anyone encountered this?

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On which platform? If you are trying to install node-red-contrib-chatbot on a raspberry, it won’t work. Some required libs are not available…

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Yeah I am trying it on raspberry pi4. I take it there is no way to install the dependencies and get it to work?

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That’s what I thought. Some libs or not available for ARM architecture. So, unless you are really brave and knowledgeable, I would go for another contrib node to use telegram on your RPi4.
I personally use node-red-contrib-telegrambot-home in this case. Some features are (AFAIK) not available in this one compare to redbot, but, to send messages on telegram that is sufficient.

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Ah, that’s actually the one i am using as well. It’s kind of buggy as for me it stops responding to my callbacks from telegram after about a day or so usage. Was hoping to switch to Redbot to see if the issues would be fixed.

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Ah… For the callback function I am only using redbot on an Intel X86 box. Works well.