Send Telegram bot message

[jkandasa]

Now it is possible to send telegram bot message from MyController.

Add telegram bot token from your bot(BotFather) into MyController notifications settings.
I followed this link to set up a bot in my telegram account.

We can get chat_id in two different steps,

Options #1: Thanks, @jl277013 for the information
The solution was to go to Telegram and search for the bot called "userinfobot" with the questionmark as an avatar. Click start and it gives you your userid.

Option #2:
From the video

• to join your bot to a group, from 04:20 to 05:52
• to get channel username(chat id), from 09:20 to 13:20.

Valid token will be looking as follows after saved,

Create Operation to send telegram bot message, Here Channel username is important. The custom message can be empty.

[betows]

Which version of MyController is this feature available?

[jkandasa]

@betows Currently it is available in SNAPSHOT version, soon(in couple of days) will be released along with 1.3.0 version

[betows]

@jkandasa Thank you!

[fsgrazzutti]

Hello @jkandasa ,

I wanted to update Telegram configuration on my Mycontroller setup, version 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT,
Git commit:branch
263b61248fe66e251519c606ecd6f48a73d75b07:development
Built on
2021-05-08T18:35:53Z

The Id I got is 537757xxxx, and I get an error message :
Numeric value (537757xxxx) out of range of int.

any chance to get it fixed ?

[jkandasa]

@fsgrazzutti It is possible we have to change the Integer to Long in https://github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller-rest-clients/blob/master/src/main/java/org/mycontroller/restclient/telegrambot/model/User.java#L38

I worked while ago in 1.x version. I have to setup the development environment in my local laptop. might take sometime to get the fix.

Have you tried MyController 2.x? I believe we have almost all the features from 1.x in MC 2.x

[fsgrazzutti]

@jkandasa thanks,

no, I did not tried it yet, I am a bit scared about the installation. I recently migrated v1.6 to a windows 10 PC

[jkandasa]

@fsgrazzutti ok, I will update you, when I fix it in v1.x. thanks!

[jkandasa]

@fsgrazzutti with the help of GitHub action I built the bundle and pushed it in to SNAPSHOT location. Have not tested yet. Let me know if you face a difficulty.

[fsgrazzutti]

@jkandasa I finally had the chance to test the SNAPSHOT and it works !

Now I have just to remember how to send the sensor states.

Thanks a lot !