Telegram Woes

[sparkytech]

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)

Here is my pertinent config.yaml:

#------------------------------------------------
#---- Telegram                                  
#------------------------------------------------

telegram_bot:
  - platform: polling
    api_key: 123456789:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopq
    allowed_chat_ids:   
      - 1111111111

notify:
- platform: telegram
  name: telegram
  chat_id: 1111111111

[sparkytech]

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.")

Telegram bot notifications and communication

Hi all, I just wanted to post my setup using Telegram to send notifications about calendar events and general home information. The samples below show notifications about: Home Assistant has booted up, Nobody detected at home, but some devices are left on, Notify of an upcoming calendar event (before it happens), Calendar reminder with actionable “remind me in X minutes”. Example from below with remind me later buttons: [Screenshot_20180413-130053~2] To start with, we define a telegram b…

Hope this helps someone else like it helped me!

[Fernando_Castro (Fernando)]

@sparkytech

miss though

I make me crazy , with this error, i try a lot of things and no solve my problem “Chat not found”.

Now work for me, thanks @Kallb123, and @sparkytech

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

[akslick (Dave)]

You helped me out! Was pulling my hair out over this silly thing of needing to send a message to it first. Thanks for documenting!

[pilot1981]

I’m trying to find right configuration…

this is mine:

telegram_bot:
  - platform: polling
    api_key: !secret api_key_telegram_daniele
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - !secret chat_ids_telegram_daniele
  - platform: polling
    api_key: !secret api_key_telegram_barbara
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - !secret chat_ids_telegram_barbara

notify:
 - name: telegram_daniele
   platform: telegram
   chat_id: !secret chat_ids_telegram_daniele
 - name: telegram_barbara
   platform: telegram
   chat_id: !secret chat_ids_telegram_barbara
 - name: famiglia
   platform: group
   services:
     - service: telegram_daniele
     - service: telegram_barbara

where is the problem? I used two different telegram account to create two token to create 2 bots, …but I’m able to use notification only to one bot…

I also tried this config:

telegram_bot:
  - platform: polling
    api_key: !secret api_key_telegram_daniele
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - !secret chat_ids_telegram_daniele
      - !secret chat_ids_telegram_barbara

[ArielBaravalle (Ariel)]

i have the same problem. any solution? y can send message tho the second id

[SKAL]

@Fernando_Castro

Only explain more for other users that you can create a chat with your bot in telegram create a new message and

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.