Hi, as mentioned earlier in some thread I started working on a Telegram Binding. As a byproduct, I had to customize the existing Telegram action from @paolo_denti Example command for the action: var String json_keyboard = '{"inline_keyboard":[[{"text":"Erledigt","callback_data":"trash_done"},{"te…

I have mentioned this before here, with the same bot… And I think it is recommended for everyone, because you can’t get the chatId any other way if that API endpoint is empty…

Could it be empty because it was already consumed by the binding? Maybe you would see it when you stop the binding first, send your message and then open the link. Of course, using the bot you mentioned is easy, but it’s not an official bot and we don’t know how long it will exist.

I noticed that you can just start a chat with your openHAB bot (send a random message) and in the log you will see an entry that the chat id is unknown and needs to be added to the config. I really love that “feature”!

Not really… it only worked a few times for me. And if you use an already created group (which you’ll do if you want to deliver these automated messages to multiple people and not individually deliver - which doesn’t make sense if you have to make a decision in my opinion… Whose answer will be the c…

[image] ZzetT: Maybe you would see it when you stop the binding first, send your message and then open the link. IIRC I tried that, too. Yes it likely was consumed by the binding because I had another telegram user active that I kept sending the message to. It’s ages back that I had set that …

Hi @JensH , is there a chance to have a textual configuration for the thing itself? Many thanks & KR, Chris

I configured thing in PaperUI, because didn’t found syntax for textual configuration at the binding site. But would be interested too :wink:

[image] JensH: But would be interested too Thing telegram:telegramBot:gbot "Telegram" @ "Internet" [chatIds="xxxxx", botToken="yyyyy", parseMode="Markdown"] and String Telegram_MessageText "Last Message Text [%s]" { channel = "teleg…