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Telegram	Instructions on how to add Telegram notifications to Home Assistant.	Notifications	0.7.5	telegram

The telegram platform uses Telegram to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to your Android device, your Windows phone, or your iOS device.

Setup

The requirements are:

• You need a Telegram bot. Please follow those instructions to create one and get the token for your bot. Keep in mind that bots are not allowed to contact users. You need to make the first contact with your user. Meaning that you need to send a message to the bot from your user.
• You need to configure a Telegram bot in Home Assistant and define there your API key and the allowed chat ids to interact with.
• The chat_id of an allowed user.

Method 1: You can get your chat_id by sending any message to the GetIDs bot.

Method 2: To retrieve your chat_id you can visit https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates or to use $ curl -X GET https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates after you have sent the bot a message. Replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with your actual token.

The result set will include your chat ID as id in the chat section:

{
	"ok": true,
	"result": [{
		"update_id": 254199982,
		"message": {
			"message_id": 27,
			"from": {
				"id": 123456789,
				"first_name": "YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_NICK_NAME",
				"last_name": "YOUR_LAST_NAME",
				"username": "YOUR_NICK_NAME"
			},
			"chat": {
				"id": 123456789,
				"first_name": "YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_NICK_NAME",
				"last_name": "YOUR_LAST_NAME",
				"username": "YOUR_NICK_NAME",
				"type": "private"
			},
			"date": 1678292650,
			"text": "test"
		}
	}]
}

Method 3: Another way to get your chat ID directly is described below. Start your Python interpreter from the command-line:

$ python3
>>> import telegram
>>> bot = telegram.Bot(token='YOUR_API_TOKEN')
>>> chat_id = bot.getUpdates()[-1].message.chat_id
>>> print(chat_id)
123456789

If you want to add new chat IDs then you will need to disable the active configuration to actually see the result with the IDs, otherwise you may only get empty results array.

Configuration

To enable Telegram notifications in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry for the Telegram Bot
telegram_bot:
  - platform: polling
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - CHAT_ID_1
      - CHAT_ID_2
      - CHAT_ID_3

# Example configuration.yaml entry for the notifier
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: telegram
    chat_id: CHAT_ID_2

Refer to the platforms mentioned in the Telegram chatbot page for telegram_bot configuration.

{% configuration %} name: description: Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME. required: false default: notify type: string chat_id: description: The chat ID of your user. required: true type: integer {% endconfiguration %}

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.

Text message

...
action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: '*Send a message*'
    message: "That's an example that _sends_ a *formatted* message with a custom inline keyboard."
    data:
      inline_keyboard:
        - 'Task 1:/command1, Task 2:/command2'
        - 'Task 3:/command3, Task 4:/command4'

{% configuration %} title: description: Will be composed as '%title\n%message'. required: false type: string message: description: Message text. required: true type: string keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom keyboard. required: false type: list inline_keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom inline keyboard with buttons with associated callback data. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}

Photo support

...
action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send an images
    message: "That's an example that sends an image."
    data:
      photo:
        - url: http://192.168.1.28/camera.jpg
          username: admin
          password: secrete
        - file: /tmp/picture.jpg
          caption: Picture Title xy
        - url: http://somebla.ie/video.png
          caption: i.e., for a Title

{% configuration %} url: description: A remote path to an image. Either this or the file configuration option is required. required: true type: string file: description: A local path to an image. Either this or the url configuration option is required. required: true type: string caption: description: The title of the image. required: false type: string username: description: Username for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string password: description: Password for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string authentication: description: Set to 'digest' to use HTTP digest authentication. required: false default: basic type: string verify_ssl: description: Set to false to skip the validation of the server's SSL certificate. required: false default: true type: boolean keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom keyboard. required: false type: list inline_keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom inline keyboard with buttons with associated callback data. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}

Since Home Assistant version 0.48 you have to whitelist the source folder of the file you want to include in the notification.

configuration.yaml
...
homeassistant:
  allowlist_external_dirs:
    - /tmp
    - /home/kenji/data

Video support

...
action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send a video
    message: "That's an example that sends a video."
    data:
      video:
        - url: http://192.168.1.28/camera.mp4
          username: admin
          password: secrete
        - file: /tmp/video.mp4
          caption: Video Title xy
        - url: http://somebla.ie/video.mp4
          caption: i.e., for a Title

{% configuration %} url: description: A remote path to an video. Either this or the file configuration option is required. required: true type: string file: description: A local path to an video. Either this or the url configuration option is required. required: true type: string caption: description: The title of the video. required: false type: string username: description: Username for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string password: description: Password for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string authentication: description: Set to 'digest' to use HTTP digest authentication. required: false default: basic type: string verify_ssl: description: Set to false to skip the validation of the server's SSL certificate. required: false default: true type: boolean keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom keyboard. required: false type: list inline_keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom inline keyboard with buttons with associated callback data. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}

Document support

...
action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send a document
    message: "That's an example that sends a document and a custom keyboard."
    data:
      document:
        file: /tmp/whatever.odf
        caption: Document Title xy
      keyboard:
        - '/command1, /command2'
        - '/command3, /command4'

{% configuration %} url: description: A remote path to a document. Either this or the file configuration option is required. required: true type: string file: description: A local path to a document. Either this or the url configuration option is required. required: true type: string caption: description: The title of the document. required: false type: string username: description: Username for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string password: description: Password for a URL which require HTTP authentication. required: false type: string authentication: description: Set to 'digest' to use HTTP digest authentication. required: false default: basic type: string verify_ssl: description: Set to false to skip the validation of the server's SSL certificate. required: false default: true type: boolean keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom keyboard. required: false type: list inline_keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom inline keyboard with buttons with associated callback data. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}

Location support

...

action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send location
    message: Location updated.
    data:
      location:
        latitude: 32.87336
        longitude: 117.22743

{% configuration %} latitude: description: The latitude to send. required: true type: float longitude: description: The longitude to send. required: true type: float keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom keyboard. required: false type: list inline_keyboard: description: List of rows of commands, comma-separated, to make a custom inline keyboard with buttons with associated callback data. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}