[HowTo] Setting up a Telegram Bot for all your Home Automation messages

Third party integrations Node-RED
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There are several bots doing that, but I’m reluctant with that. You never know if, and, or how they are (want to) use it.

I found an other solution, when you have to get the user-id without the Telegram Node-Red functions, which looks more secure to me:

  1. Go to the web version of the Telegram messenger with your browser: https://web.telegram.org

  2. Login with your phone number. Your Telegram messenger app on your phone will sent you login-code. Use this code to log in into the Telegram web version.

  3. Select your Saved Messages account.
    FYI: In fact, that is your private Telegram cloud storage.
    If you don’t see that ‘account’ you can enable it, if I remember correctly, by selecting the 3 horizontal stripes icon (left top) in your Telegram phone messenger app and select the saved messages option from the pull down menu. Store a message and the Saved Messages account should show up.

  4. Check the web-browser URL, it will look something like:

https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=u12345678_9101112131415161718

Your user ID is the number between the im?p=u and the _ character, in the above example 12345678.

In this way you can get all user-IDs of your contacts, by selecting them and check the URL!

P.S. When done, don’t forget to log out from the Telegram web version by selecting the top left 3 horizontal stripes (Options), select Settings, select Log out at the bottom.

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