Telegram

The telegram platform uses Telegram to delivery notifications from Home Assistant to your Android device, your Windows phone, or your iOS device.

The requirements are:

• You need a Telegram bot. Please follow those instructions to create one and get the token for your bot. Keep in mind that bots are not allowed to contact users. You need to make the first contact with your user. Meaning that you need to send a message to the bot from your user.
• The chat_id of an user.

The quickest way to retrieve your chat_id is visiting https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates.

The result set will include your chat ID as id in the from section:

{
   "ok":true,
   "result":[
      {
         "update_id":254199982,
         "message":{
            "message_id":201,
            "from":{
               "id":123456789,
               "first_name":"Your first name",
...

Another way to get your chat ID directly is described below:

import telegram
bot = telegram.Bot(token='YOUR_API_TOKEN')
chat_id = bot.getUpdates()[-1].message.chat_id
print(chat_id)
123456789

To enable Telegram notifications in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: telegram
  api_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
  chat_id: YOUR_CHAT_ID

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is notify. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
• api_key (Required): The API token of your bot.
• chat_id (Required: The chat ID of your user.

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.

Photo support

...
action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send an images
    message: That's a example that sends an image.
    data:
      photo:
        - url: http://192.168.1.28/camera.jpg
          username: admin
          password: secrete
        - file: /tmp/picture.jpg
          caption: Picture Title xy
        - url: http://somebla.ie/video.png
          caption: I.e. for a Title

• url or file (Required): For local or remote path to an image.
• caption (Optional): The title of the image.
• username (Optional): Username for an URL which require HTTP basic authentication.
• password (Optional): Username for an URL which require HTTP basic authentication.

Location support

...

action:
  service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  data:
    title: Send location
    message: Location updated.
    data:
      location:
        latitude: 32.87336
        longitude: 117.22743

• location (Required): For local or remote path to an image.
• latitude (Required): The latitude to send.
• longitude (Required): The longitude to send.