Two Telegram Bots

Configuration
1

Hi guys.

I am using Telegram a lot for my home assistant setup.
My first bot is working very well. My second bot also when I delete the first one. So everything is fine except when I try to run both together.

How can I do this?
Other Threads did not help me.

telegram_bot: 
  - platform: polling
    api_key: 1111111111333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfsaf
#secondaccount    api_key: 222222222333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasf 
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - 11111111111
      - 2222222222


notify:
  - name: homeassistantbotname
    platform: telegram
    chat_id: 11111111111
  - name: homeassistantbotname2
    platform: telegram
    chat_id: 2222222222
2 
telegram_bot: 
  - platform: polling
    api_key: 1111111111333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfsaf
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - 11111111111

  - platform: polling 
    api_key: 222222222333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasf 
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - 2222222222
3

How to set a second chat_id?

4 
telegram_bot: 
  - platform: polling
    api_key: 1111111111333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfsaf
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - 11111111111
      - AAAAAAAAA

  - platform: polling 
    api_key: 222222222333:asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasf 
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - BBBBBBBBB
      - 2222222222
5

Yes ok, but i was meaning in terms of creating a new api_key…

6

Tbh there’s no reason two (or more) people can’t use one bot, but basically you would generate a different bot from the second user and generate that api_key.

1 Like
7

With a new phone number. In my case it’s for my girlfriend.

8

Yeah, but there’s no reason your girlfriend can’t use the same bot. We only have one bot here, with 3 of us using it in 3 separate chats :+1:

9

Okay. Would be fine for me.
Could you post your confit than. Cuz it does not work for me with only one api

10 
telegram_bot:
  platform: polling
  api_key: !secret telegram_bot_api_key
  parse_mode: html
  allowed_chat_ids:
    - !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_mf
    - !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_ls
    - !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_cg


notify:
  - platform: telegram
    name: mf
    chat_id: !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_mf

  - platform: telegram
    name: ls
    chat_id: !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_ls

  - platform: telegram
    name: cg
    chat_id: !secret telegram_bot_chat_id_cg
11

This does not work for me.

When I use the api of chatid1 it won’t work with chatid2 getting this error:

Error sending message: Chat not found. Args: (560....chatid, 'Testmessage!'), kwargs: {'parse_mode': 'HTML', 'disable_notification': False, 'disable_web_page_preview': None, 'reply_to_message_id': None, 'reply_markup': None, 'timeout': None}
11:07 AM components/telegram_bot/__init__.py (ERROR)

When I change it back to the API of chatid2 it works only with chatid2

12

Api_keys are for the bots, the chat_id is for the user that is interactive with the bot.

So, basically, you need to start a chat between your girlfriend and your bot.