I am currently using Hassio without opening it to the internet. I get notifications via Telegram, but is it possible somehow to chat to the Telegram bot and receive a status? For instance to send a message to get the status of which lights are turned on, when last motion was detected etc?
I am working on doing exactly this using Node Red with Home Assistant node and Telegram Node
Cool - does it seem possible to you? Node red requires that Home Assistant is accessable from outside wifi or am I mistanken there?
No, you run Node-Red locally on your network.
You don’t need node-red to achieve this, I do it in my set up.
I have it so it replies to the user that sent the incoming message, and this could be customised to send a different message depending on who requests the information/action.
It also sends a custom keyboard that can be used to quickly navigate around the options.
Have a look at the automations in these two files for inspiration…
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Some screenshots…
/status…
Then pressed the lights button…
Then pressed the menu button…
Then pressed the occupancy button…
Then pressed the guest mode button twice, switching guest mode on, and then off…
@masterkenobi gave me the inspiration for this, so a quick heads up to him 
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Thanks a lot - that looks really cool. Exactly what I was looking for! I’ll take a look at the setup and hopefully I can set up something similar 
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I know you don’t need it. It was just something I have been working on.
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