# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Telegram **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, flow, homey-pro\ **Created:** [July 28, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622 "2022-07-28T13:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![basvanderploeg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/basvanderploeg/32/83556_2.png) [@basvanderploeg](https://community.homey.app/u/basvanderploeg)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/41 "2022-08-11T17:57:42Z")
Thanks! You can reproduce it by using a random generated placeholder image like this: ```auto https://picsum.photos/200/300 ``` It should return a new image on each request. But somewhere it gets cached. I found a temporary workaround by adding `?t={{random(0,1000000)}}` to the url, which adds a random number to replace the cached image. But this isn’t possible with the snapshot tag card of course. ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/42 "2022-08-11T18:15:45Z")
> [@basvanderploeg](#): > > You can reproduce it by using a random generated placeholder image like this > [@basvanderploeg](#): > > I found a temporary workaround by adding `?t={{random(0,1000000)}}` to the url, which adds a random number to replace the cached image. Thank you for the hint! It is a problem on Telegram side, but I quickly found a workaround. Check out the latest test version and tell me if this workaround is working for you. Both Image Tag and URL based images 🙂 Best regards ✌ ---
**Author:** ![basvanderploeg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/basvanderploeg/32/83556_2.png) [@basvanderploeg](https://community.homey.app/u/basvanderploeg)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/43 "2022-08-11T18:21:28Z")
We’ve got a winner! Works perfectly now! Thanks for the quick fix! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/44 "2022-08-11T18:22:43Z")
Thank you for testing. ❤ I pushed the update now to the live version! Best regards ✌ ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/45 "2022-08-29T19:37:25Z")
Hey Homey community! I just added a [italian translation to Telegram Notifications](https://homey.app/en-gb/app/com.spkes.telegramNotifications/Telegram-Notifications/test/). Thanks to @ilpaolino for the translation. Best regards ✌ ---
**Author:** ![thobu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thobu/32/18357_2.png) [@thobu](https://community.homey.app/u/thobu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/46 "2022-09-25T14:57:39Z")
How would I activate the bot for a group or add a group as a user? /start pwd @… tells me already in the list but it’s not ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/47 "2022-09-25T15:16:26Z")
Add your Bot the group chat then enter `/start ` (Groupinfo → Members → Add → @your\_telegram\_botusername) (/setjoingroup and /setprivacy has to be set to ACTIVATED) ---
**Author:** ![thobu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thobu/32/18357_2.png) [@thobu](https://community.homey.app/u/thobu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/48 "2022-09-25T15:26:15Z")
I guess I confused the addon/bot by adding the same token to 2 different Homeys. Guess I need to create one for each Homey ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/49 "2022-09-25T20:15:33Z")
Never tested that case. Currently I also don’t know a simple fix, since the config is saved inside the homey. What I could do is a export/import function for the config. I’ll take a look at this next weekend. ---
**Author:** ![thobu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thobu/32/18357_2.png) [@thobu](https://community.homey.app/u/thobu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/50 "2022-09-26T08:20:40Z")
no worries, I just created a second bot ---
**Author:** ![TheMac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/themac/32/25871_2.png) [@TheMac](https://community.homey.app/u/TheMac)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/51 "2022-09-27T12:31:55Z")
So for now I have an advanced flow asking a question to a group chat, expecting an exact text reply to trigger the action. Something that would be very neat is to send a question to the chat presenting two buttons, yes / no, for example. Eliminating the typing and you can then quickly action whatever you need. Have no real experience from buttons in telegram, assume it requires a separate instance and additional coding on the bot owner side? Nevertheless, I second the request for improved ability to reply back to Homey via Telegram with a decision. ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/52 "2022-09-30T09:12:37Z")
Hi @spkesDE , I was just thinking today that there isn’t any Homey app that could call you instead of sending notification or message- eg. I can imagine when there is some Alarm, I would like to get disturbed and sometimes notification is just hidden among others notifications… do you think it would be possible in the future with you app or it’s not possible, that nobody ever implement it yet 😉 Thank you, it’s just an idea 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/53 "2022-09-30T09:57:28Z")
> [@Sharkys](#): > > isn’t any Homey app that could call you The callmebot app supports voicecalls via telegram. The receiving party must have telegram installed though. ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/54 "2022-09-30T10:09:03Z")
I know, thank you, that app however do not support image tags however. I was looking on that already before but decided to stay with Telegram only. ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/55 "2022-09-30T16:52:31Z")
@Sharkys Possible is everything but i don’t know how long this project will take since I would have implement some kind of text-to-voice lib and find out how telegram calls works. This is something I can take a look at it when I’m have a couple days of aka Holidays. > [@TheMac](#): > > Something that would be very neat is to send a question to the chat presenting two buttons, yes / no, for example. Eliminating the typing and you can then quickly action whatever you need. I’m already one it 🙂 But working fulltime as a paramedic is currently something different. 🎉 I don’t know when I’ll complete this project. Edit: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/1/f1fbb8557d2b4361dbbf02fbb80572d146958c72.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/c/bcfd339a155fbd112c236adf216cb4edbf2421c1.png) ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/56 "2022-09-30T18:05:56Z")
No worries, it was just idea…btw, paramedic as developer? Wow , nice combo 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mats007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mats007/32/61455_2.png) [@Mats007](https://community.homey.app/u/Mats007)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/57 "2022-10-03T07:22:38Z")
Hi, Just installed the app and am able to send messages to the Telegram Bot. However I am unable to receive texts in Homey from the telegram bot group. I followed every single step but I am probably missing something. Could someone lend me a hand? @spkesDE : thanks for putting in the work since this does the trick I need (if I get it running properly)! ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/58 "2022-10-03T11:58:12Z")
> [@spkesDE](#): > > /setprivacy has to be set to ACTIVATED This should help @Mats007 Only needed to be activated if the bot is inside a group chat ---
**Author:** ![Mats007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mats007/32/61455_2.png) [@Mats007](https://community.homey.app/u/Mats007)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/59 "2022-10-03T17:21:15Z")
Hi @spkesDE, Thanks for the tip but this doesn’t do the trick I am afraid. I have set the following: - /Setprivacy: disabled - /setjoingroups: disabled Sending text or pictures from Homey to the Telegram bot works great. However I don’t get it running the other way around. The log file shows time and date from me sending a message in the group to the bot but is says: “[object Object]”. Don’t know if this is normal? Regards ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622/60 "2022-10-03T17:32:42Z")
> [@Mats007](#): > > I have set the following: > > - /Setprivacy: disabled > - /setjoingroups: disabled Has to be **ACTIVATED** / **ENABELD** > [@Mats007](#): > > The log file shows time and date from me sending a message in the group to the bot but is says: “[object Object]”. Don’t know if this is normal? Could you create a diagnostic report? [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-telegram/66622.md?page=4)