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Telegram chatbot polling implementation.

One of two bot implementations supported by Telegram. Your Home Assistant does not have to be exposed to the internet.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To integrate this into Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
telegram_bot:
  - platform: polling
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    allowed_chat_ids:
      - 12345
      - 67890

{% configuration %} allowed_chat_ids: description: A list of users in the user_id Telegram format that are authorized to interact with the webhook. 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.