I have set up a Telegram bot and am successfully sending messages to it that are coming to my phone via HA.
I have another user who has now also added the same bot to their Telegram app and they can chat to it. I cannot however find the chat ID for them so that HA can direct it’s messages to them.
When I do:
https://api.telegram.org/botmMY_API/getUpdates
I get:
{"ok":true,"result":[]}
I have been at this for hours!
Can anyone help please?
Hi how did you set up the chat ? Like sending messages to HA via telegram? I am struggling with that.
Thanks.
From their telegram send a message to @myidbot (or something similar) , and it returns the chat id.
@bachoo786 I haven’t set it up as a two way thing yet but getting HA to talk to Telegram was fairly straight forward. Except it’s not… 
The Telegram end seems quite poorly documented on the entire internet but if you can get all the api keys and chat ids etc then it is simple.
@anon43302295 I finally worked something out before I saw your message here but I think I can offer a bonus tip! If you set it up in HA and use a dummy chat_id with everything else set up correctly at the Telegram end then the HA error seems to include the chat id you were aiming at. I hope that makes sense?
At least I think that is what happened. It was one of those situations where I had tried so many things I was not sure if I was coming or going.