I do not get a response and nothing in the log files
How ever when I start hass manually with the hass command. I’m getting this error
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.telegram_bot.polling] Error 409 on https://api.telegram.org/bot<my api key>/getUpdates
The 409 error means “Another webhook is active”. That means something has set-up a webhook to the bot, instead of using polling.
UPDATE 1: I’m getting these errors since i upgraded to 0.47.1. Must be a bug. When I downgraded to 0.46.1 - it’s gone, or at least it doesn’t repeat every second.
UPDATE 2: This is not a bug, it’s a feature. Apparently the chatbot was not working properly before 0.47, that’s why this error did not appear so often. This error only happens if you’re using the same bot for multiple hass instances, or polling it for updates from hass and some other software.
If you need simply notifications, I think you should be able to use the same bot from multiple instances. Clearly this won’t work if you need the chatbot functionality. I’ve opened an issue in the bugtracker - https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/8183 - it’d be helpful if you can give some feedback as well.
There’s a new platform for the chatbot already in the works, that will only send messages (no receiving). It should be released with the next version of HASS.