1.8 KiB
| title | description | ha_category | ha_release | ha_domain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram broadcast | Telegram support to send messages only |
|
0.48 | telegram_bot |
Telegram implementation to support sending messages only. Your Home Assistant instance does not have to be exposed to the internet and there is no polling to receive messages or commands sent to the bot.
Information on how to send a message via the service telegram_bot.send_message can be found here.
Configuration
To integrate this into Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
telegram_bot:
- platform: broadcast
api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
allowed_chat_ids:
- 123456789 # example id of a user
- -987654321 # example id of a group, starts with a -
{% configuration %}
allowed_chat_ids:
description: A list of ids representing the users and group chats to which messages can be send. Default the message will be send to the first alllowed chat_id. By using the target service data attribute the message can be send to other chat_ids from the list.
required: true
type: list
api_key:
description: The API token of your bot.
required: true
type: string
parse_mode:
description: Default parser for messages if not explicit in message data, either html or markdown.
required: false
type: string
default: "markdown"
proxy_url:
description: Proxy URL if working behind one (socks5://proxy_ip:proxy_port).
required: false
type: string
proxy_params:
description: Proxy configuration parameters, as dict, if working behind a proxy (username, password, etc.).
required: false
type: string
{% endconfiguration %}
To get your chat_id and api_key follow the instructions here.