Telegram automation not working

Configuration
1

Hi folks,

Have successfully created telegram integration, confirmed by sending a “test” message through service. Afterwards created a automation to send a message after light turns on.

configuration.yaml

### Telegram configs ###
telegram_bot:
  platform: polling
  api_key: !secret telegram_rockasbot_apiKey
  allowed_chat_ids:
    - !secret telegram_chatID
    #- !secret chatid02

notify:
  - name: telegram
    platform: telegram
    chat_id: !secret telegram_chatID

automation.yaml

- id: '1608067011813'
  alias: Teste
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: light.yeelight_office_light
    to: "on"
  action:
    - service: notify.telegram
      data:
        message: "Luz do escritório acesa"

see trigger working but not receiving message…

image

what am I missing here?

Thanks.

2

Are you sending to a group like home assistant alerts? If so you’ll need to add allowed_chat_ids also for the group.
In telegram do you have IDBot, BotFather, telegram and another if so thats your group.

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3

no, alerts are sent to a singular person, singular chat_id.
using BotFather…did test within HA invoking notify service and worked perfectly.

what am I missing?

4

Try following this tutorial, hes using the same polling solution. I thought I had a user account but inadvertently created a group, which does have some benefits that you can add family members to it.
Telegram
And
Telegram2
Also send a message to the bot in telegram create a new message and write @mybotname and send ‘hello’ , test again
Also try adding title: test, I’ve seen somewhere that it needs it.

5

Since you have tested the telegram bot and successful in receiving the message through the service, it wont be an issue with telegram bot. Try this automation.

- id: '1608067011813'
  alias: Teste
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: light.yeelight_office_light
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
  action:
    - service: notify.telegram
      data:
        message: "Luz do escritório acesa"
6

finally got why was failing…binary off set!
instead o active parse_mode to html, changed message and it worked :expressionless:

thanks guys.

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7

is it possible to create an alert for when a temperature passes x value?
Light alerts are working fine.
Now I would like to have an alert for the maximum temperature of a probe.