Telegram broadcast
Telegram implementation to support sending messages only. Your Home Assistant instance does not have to be exposed to the Internet and there is no polling to receive messages sent to the bot.
To integrate this into Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml
file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
telegram_bot:
- platform: broadcast
api_key: <telegram api key>
allowed_chat_ids:
- 12345
- 67890
Configuration variables:
- allowed_chat_ids (Required): A list of user in the
user_id
Telegram format enabled to interact to webhook - api_key (Required): The API token of your bot.
- parse_mode (Optional): Default parser for messages if not explicit in message data: ‘html’ or ‘markdown’. Default is ‘markdown’.
- proxy_url (Optional): Proxy url if working behind one (
socks5://proxy_ip:proxy_port
) - proxy_params (Optional): Proxy configuration parameters, as dict, if working behind a proxy (
username
,password
, etc.)
To get your chat_id
and api_key
follow the instructions here.