Today we are taking a look at how to set up Telegram notifications in home assistant.

I still prefer using the telegram notifications to the current state of the android app notifications and the integration is fairly simple to set up.

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Guides used https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/telegram/ https://core.telegram.org/bots

Code for configaration.yaml telegram_bot:

• platform: polling api_key: YOUR_API_KEY allowed_chat_ids:
  • CHAT_ID_1
  • CHAT_ID_2
  • CHAT_ID_3

Example configuration.yaml entry for the notifier

notify:

• name: NOTIFIER_NAME platform: telegram chat_id: CHAT_ID_2

Code for automation message message: The alarm triggered title: alarm ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHdWirJ2v8M