[SOLVED] Telegram Bot issue

markymark · December 23, 2019, 8:27am

Good morning community,

I am currently integrating the Telegram Chat Action into my openHAB system.

But if I want to call the telegram JSON to get my chat ID, I get an empty array back.

I know at this point it des nothing to do with openHAB.

Many greetings and Merry Christmas already,
Mark

vzorglub · December 23, 2019, 8:42am

I had to try again and again and again and eventually I got the chat id…
Only advice so far

markymark · December 23, 2019, 8:49am

ok you also did it with web browser or curl?

vzorglub · December 23, 2019, 8:56am

web browser

Vradatta · December 23, 2019, 9:04am

Maybe i’m wrong, but i think you have to add the bot to a chat, and write one message (or write a Message in the private Chat with the bot)

Afterwards you will See the chat with the id there.

HaKuNa · December 23, 2019, 9:30am

If you are on OpenHAB 2.5, I suggest to use the telegram binding.

markymark · December 23, 2019, 10:05am

no you are not wrong now i have the chatid
thx

vzorglub · December 23, 2019, 10:06am

Please tick the solution, thanks

vzorglub · December 23, 2019, 10:08am

Nice one, I set mine up years ago and all I remembered was trying again and again until the chat id came up.

Vradatta · December 23, 2019, 11:22am

I had the same Problem some years ago

But this is even documanted in the old v1 binding description…

Create the destination chat

Open a chat with your new Bot and send any message to it. The next step will not work unless you send a message to your bot first.

markymark · March 22, 2020, 6:29pm

ok thx @Vradatta now it works

mstormi · March 22, 2020, 6:44pm

See the (now updated) binding docs.

mstormi · March 22, 2020, 6:53pm

Just fix it yourself (see link at the bottom).