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 -
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.
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.
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.