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Effortlessly control your smart home with Telegram

Introducing the Telegram bot for Homey Pro - the ultimate smart home hub companion. With this bot, you can control your smart home devices right from your Telegram chat. The bot supports sending and receiving messages, making it easy to stay connected with your home.

One of the most exciting features of this bot is the question system. With this system, you can use Telegram inline buttons to trigger actions on your smart home hub, such as turning on the lights or adjusting the thermostat. This makes it incredibly easy to control your home from anywhere in the world.

In addition, the Telegram bot for Homey Pro supports multiple users and chats, as well as groups, making it perfect for families or roommates who want to control their smart home together. With this bot, your smart home has never been more accessible or convenient. Install now and experience the convenience of controlling your smart home from Telegram.

How to setup

  1. Install the app on your smart home hub.
  2. Create a Telegram bot by searching for @Botfather in the Telegram search bar and selecting the @Botfather bot.
  3. Start the @Botfather bot by clicking the “Start” button or by sending the /newbot command to create a new bot.
  4. (Optional) To ensure privacy, set the bot to private by entering /setjoingroup DISABLED and set the privacy to DISABLED by entering /setprivacy.
  5. Enter the token in the app settings.
  6. Start the bot by sending the /start command in Telegram, and follow the instructions. Each user must also send the bot the /start command. You can share the bot with others by searching for it in Telegram or by sharing the profile link.
  7. Enjoy controlling your smart home from Telegram!

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Feedback / Bugs

Any requests please post them in the Telegram topic on the Athom Community forum
Please report issues at the issues section on Github otherwise in this topic.

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Changelog

2.6.X

  • Translations updated (2.6.2)
  • Bug fixes (2.6.1)
  • Topics support! (2.6.0)

2.5.X

  • New Settings Page

2.2.2 - 2.4.0

  • Bug fixes

2.2.2

  • Updated Translation

2.2.0

  • New Design
  • New Settings Page design
  • Custom ID’s for questions
  • Delete messages by ID (Bot needs the permissions for it though if its a different message sender)
  • Delete messages by ID & ChatId
  • The ability to change the columns of buttons for each question
  • Added Timestamp to the Message received cards
  • Added a Message is received from chat card
  • Code improvements
  • Updated dependencies
  • Updated Translation

Breaking Changes

  • BLL support is currently deactivated. Will be reenabled once WebAPI is fixed on the Homey Pro 2023

2.1.0

  • Added new question has been answered card with both fields autocompletion

2.0.8

  • Fixed the settings page

2.0.7

  • Fixed ‘IMAGE_PROCESS_FAILED’ error

2.0.6

  • Fixed spelling error

2.0.5

  • Added debug logs filter for the settings page

2.0.4

  • Added silent questions toggle (No Notification Sound - found in the Settings Page)
  • Added silent message flow card (No Notification Sound)
  • Internal structure changes

v2.0.3

  • Bug fixes
  • Added toggle for persistent buttons
  • Keep selected button after usage.

v2.0.0

Changelog v1.1.0 - 1.1.5

v1.1.5

  • Bug fixes, Better error handling

v1.1.4

  • Bug fixes

v1.1.3

v1.1.2

  • Workaround for Telegrams’s image caching

v1.1.1

  • Added “Send an Image (Token)” flow
  • Added “Send an Image (Token) with Message” flow
v1.1.0 (Test Version Only)
  • Added “Send an Image (URL)” flow
  • Added “Send an Image (URL) with Message” flow
Changelog v1.0 - 1.0.10

v1.0.10

  • Bug fixes

v1.0.9

  • Added ‘A new user/chat has been discovered’ flow card
  • Added support for a password for the /start command

v1.0.8

  • Status of the bot in the settings page
  • Allowing to remove users individually.
v1.0.7 (Test Version Only)
  • Improved Settings Page
v1.0.6 (Test Version Only)
  • Added Logs to the settings page.
  • Added Dutch translation - Thanks to @Twan_Veugelers

v1.0.5

  • Better error handling
  • Updated settings page
  • Updated Store page
v1.0.4 (Test Version Only)
  • German Translation
v1.0.3 (Test Version Only)
  • Added Homey Community Topic to the manifest
v1.0.2 (Test Version Only)
  • Update flows with more tokens
v1.0.1 (Test Version Only)
  • Added “When a message is received” flow card

v1.0.0

  • Initial release
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Hello, what’s the difference/advantage compared tovthe app Telegram Bot?

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Mostly a more modern app (SDKv3, Telegram API v4). So the more possibility’s. The Telegram bot from Jorden was updated last updated 3 years ago and wasn’t working for me.

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Ok fair. Is it possible to send messages to telegram groups with your app?

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Yes in the upcoming version, private chats, groups and supergroups are supported with version 1.0.3 :slight_smile:

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Nice, were you also aware of the CallMeBot app?

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Yes of course, but I wanted a system where I don’t have to use a 3rd party service to send a message.
Also CallMeBot doesn’t support message receiving :slight_smile:

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I was able to follow the instructions from the first post just fine.
Now I want to add users in the app settings in Homey, but I can’t.
What am I missing?

It says: Empty :frowning:

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Sure you have additional user accounts present @ your Homey?

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Yes, both me, my wife and a guest have been created.

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They have also to contact the bot, since it has to know the user id :slight_smile:

Edit: I will edit the instructions to make it more clear. Each User has to write the bot the /start command and register. To find the bot you can enter the bot name into the search of Telegram or share the bot via profile

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Yeah, found it out now. I was still working in the botfather.

Somehow the part about starting the bot from the link in the message created by the botfather was not clear to me.

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Ah, so it has nothing to do with Homey users (user accounts), but with Telegram users :grimacing:.

And FYI the Test version receiving msgs works fine

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Glad to hear, if u have any questions or feedback, let me know!

Thank you for testing :slight_smile: I hope I get the approval from Athom soon for the test version.

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Would it be possible to ‘answer’ a question from a flow with yes or no and decide the continuation of the flow based on that answer, with the receiving message functionality coming in 1.0.3?

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It would be possible when splitting the flow in 2 flows.
The first flow sends the question, the second flow triggers the flow by ‘message received’ , dependent on the answer (and user).

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You mean like you send a question (e.g. Would you like to close the blinds?) to a chat and answer it with Yes or No?
With the with the version 1.0.3, technically yes. But you would have to store the last asked question in a variable. And check with “A message received” the answer.

I could implement that functionality inside the app. Once I have so free time for that and I have a test version I’ll let you know.

You always beat me with 1m :smiley:
And you could that in one flow with adv. flow :slight_smile:

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Sorry 'bout that hehe.

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Updated the test version to 1.0.5.
Just little minor changes. Most visible is a german translation and updated setup instructions.

Update ist out for everyone.