Read telegram public group messages

Configuration
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Hello. I want to parse some public telegram group announces and light some indication in my house regarding the message.

At this moment I’ve already integrated telegram, I have telegram bot and can listen to my bot commands and messages. But I need to check messages from some public group. Is it possible at all?

I’ve tried to add public group id to the list:

telegram_bot:  
  - platform: polling
    api_key: !secret telegram_bot_token
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - !secret telegram_chat_id
      - 111111111 #public group id

After that I added the automation on ‘telegram_text’ event. But it doesn’t work.

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Also intrested if there is possibility to get information from public channel