New Telegram Binding - Tester and Feedback welcome

Bredmich · March 16, 2020, 8:53pm

Is it possible to send a silent message?
The Telegram API has an Option for this called disable_notification
Description:

rkrisi · March 17, 2020, 3:17pm

This would be great!
However I think it is needed to change the code (the called URL for this…).
@ZzetT I’m happy to look into this if you don’t want to.

boris03 · March 19, 2020, 10:21pm

I do have the new telegram binding setup and everything seems working fine.

Now my problem when I do restart my pi3b on OH2.5.2, e.g. when changed some rules or items suddenly the telegram messages aren’t send any more, when restarting again it might work or not, this is strange and I cannot find an error.

I do activate the telegram send activity with a dummy switch, but as I said sometimes it is working next restart it isn’t.

Anyone having similar problems?

mhilbush · March 19, 2020, 10:27pm

It’s probably this.

boris03 · March 19, 2020, 11:25pm

I think I don’t understand, what can I do to get it stable running, the binding is the newest version.
Can I influence the behavior for the proper start of that binding or action?

mhilbush · March 19, 2020, 11:48pm

It’s not entirely clear to me the circumstances that will cause a binding to restart, but when it does restart, the actions will stop working. When this happens, the only solution I’ve found is a restart of openHAB. I wish I had some better advice for you on how to prevent it.

I find this to be a REALLY annoying problem, because it usually happens silently. The only way I notice it is when I stop getting emails and telegrams. Unfortunately, since it needs to be fixed in openhab-core, it won’t be resolved until OH3.

boris03 · March 20, 2020, 11:16am

Yes, this is true I do have the same issue with emails sending getting stopped.
This is strange.

csi_oh · April 2, 2020, 8:06pm

Something strange occured today - I’ve upgraded to latest stable OH and wanted to switch from textual config to PaperUI-config.

The thing is “online” and I can retrieve messages that I’m writing in the corresponding chatID. But, anything that is “outbound” doesn’t work. I’ve declared the exact same parameters as in my textual config, but no success.

For testing purposes I adapted my textual config and put the thingID OH has created for the thing - this works as intended.

What’s also “strange” is that the PaperUI-config doesn’t seem to accept a “NO socket” option as it always resets/defaults to SOCKS5 - I can avoid that via textual config of course.

0user0 · April 14, 2020, 5:48pm

Hello,
I have a question for a rule.
With the preview telegram action, I can send a telegram message when a item is over a precise numeric value using item.state > x .
With a new telegram binding don’t work.
What is the correct syntax for send a message when a numeric item is over a determinate value?
Thanks.

JensH · April 14, 2020, 6:45pm

Please Post your rule here, because the only change is the syntax of telegram.Action

If item.state > x is still the same

0user0 · April 14, 2020, 7:28pm

Hi,
Thanks for the answer.

I have a sensor (myitem) and when the temperature is over x I would receive a telegram message.

With the telegram action I had:
When the myitem changed then if myitem.state > x Telegram send message, but with the new binding not work.

Only with numeric variable not work because with the ON / OFF variable work correctly.

Thanks.

JensH · April 14, 2020, 9:39pm

Again: please post your rule here.

Without seeing your syntax nobody is able to help

0user0 · April 14, 2020, 10:20pm

I try with this rule, but don’t work:

rule “NAME"
when
Item Sensor changed
then
if(Sensor.state > VALUE) {
val telegramAction….
telegramAction.sendTelegram….
}
end

Thanks.

JensH · April 14, 2020, 11:00pm

Its only a part of your rule. How to check syntax if you don’t paste your rule.

Your item is which type?

Value written like 2 ? Or written like 2.0 or written like „2“ ?

Because looks like you don’t want to show what you did in rule I only can give you the hint to check with loginfo if comparison works and your If gives a true or not.

I think you have some log entries too due to a type mismatch.

But unable to help anymore with cutted parts of rule.

Sorry.

JensH · April 14, 2020, 11:07pm

Try if(Sensor.state as number > VALUE) {

Then I‘m out. To heavy to guess what you written

0user0 · April 15, 2020, 6:35am

Thanks for the suggestion, later I try.

I paste my syntax, but I write VALUE because I have 2 cases.
The first is a temperature sensor and I write 22.5 and the other case is a power consumption value and I write a integer value.
Both the Items are number type.
I didn’t check if I had error in the log file but after I will check.

Thanks.

0user0 · April 15, 2020, 8:03am

I find the mistake, in the rules file I write Item Item (double) in a other rule, deleted the word “Item” extra and all rules work correctly without your syntax.

Thanks.

JensH · April 15, 2020, 8:44am

That was the reason I wanted to see the original code

0user0 · April 15, 2020, 11:07am

Another question, I test a rule when the Bot receive a message and work correctly.
How can I do for receive into the answer the state or the value of items?
Do you have an example for me? For example when I write Temperature openhab sent a temperature of the sensor.
Thanks.

Foxejoe · April 16, 2020, 4:09pm

Hi, I upgrade to 2.5.3 and install the official Telegram binding.
The sendTelegram seems work but I have the following warn message:

[ng.telegram.internal.TelegramHandler] - Telegram exception: GetUpdates failed with error_code 409 Conflict: terminated by other getUpdates request; make sure that only one bot instance is running

With 2.4 and beta binding I never had.
Can you help understanding what’s wrong?
Regards
Lorenzo