I need some help setting up Telegram. I have tried over and over and can’t get it to work, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated! I followed the BurnsHA YouTube vid for my setup, but I am getting the following error in the log:
[homeassistant.components.telegram_bot] Error sending message: Chat not found. Args: (mychatid)
I got it working! Thanks to user ‘Kallb123’, the following link helped me out (the part about " One thing they all seemed to miss though, is that you need to send a message to your bot before it can interact with you.")
Only explain more for other users that you can create a chat with your bot in telegram create a new message and write @mybotname and send ‘hello’ , now work for me. Thanks
Don’t know if it is the solution YOU are looking for, but I can tell the solution worked for me.
I was getting crazy just because I forgot to start the BOT. Try to login on the bot page (@bot_name) and write /start.