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

Hi all,

I don’t know why but for months all my node-red-contrib-chatbot nodes had the same look, and recently nothing work any more and it refused to update in node-red add-on.

I found the working trick here below and now I have the newest nodes withe the adequate illustrations ands hopefully it works !

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Hi guys, I know this is an older post but I find suitable for some of my projects. I can’t figure out where to find this node.node Can some one provide the exact name of this particular node or its replacement?

Thanks in advance.

I’d guess that it would be the same node that is linked in the very first post.

@Domoticon is it possible to use variables in button node? i cant get it working…
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Sorry for the late respond.
I don’t know for sure, but I think you need an upstream function node to construct a msg.payload as input for the button.
Check the button node inside help:

Buttons can be created programmatically by an upstream Function node passing array of buttons in the message payload: …

Thank you tremendously for this method of determining the chatid for my Telegram bot. It worked perfectly!