openweather plugin ?

[therealdb]

As another one asked for it on the other forum, I finally created a new plug-in for Telegram notifications: https://github.com/dbochicchio/vera-Telegram/

You can:

• send text messages
• send (still) images
• send videos (gif or mp4)
• send silent notifications

I remember @CatmanV2 was searching for something similar (maybe?).

I'm using it to send push notifications to me and my wife, using a group. I have my own code streaming my cameras and sending a video as gif based on certain events (ie motion sensors or door/entryways left open). While this part is not included into the plug-in, if you're able to get a video yourself (by pointing to a URL), you'd good to go. Still images from cams (or, let's say, your favorite weather map, or any video/gif/image on the Interner ot local) are supported as well.

100% compatible with bot Vera and openLuup (where it was developed, anyway).

Feel free to ask questions or suggest new features.

[akbooer]

I gave you a 'like' there, but you can have one here as well

[PerH]

Installed and tested, can't get it to work.
I just dropped the files into cmh-ludl and created the device.
No error messages, but i noticed that the BotID turned into a date value when I pasted it in at the variables tab? its only the number before ":" that goes in there?
is the user ID including the "@"?

Tried to send a message using both Reactor, and the "Actions" tab in the device. bots returns "OK" from the telegramservice.
Is the "DisableNotification" a boolean value?

[therealdb]

@perh disablednotification is a Boolean.

The first part is a number, so altui tries to display as a date. Skip @ and try to set debug mode to 1 to further debug.

[akbooer]

Yes, once again an issue of Vera variables not having a reliable data type. AltUI (and openLuup) display large numbers as dates. For openLuup the threshold is 1234567890, for AltUI, a little lower, IIRC.

[PerH]

Ok, so the value seems to be correct even if the gui thinks its a date.

2020-11-15 12:13:45.817   luup.call_action:: 755.urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraTelegram1.Send 
2020-11-15 12:13:45.817   luup_log:755: VeraTelegram(send@201): send({ action="Send", serviceId="urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraTelegram1", Text="reqrqe", DeviceNum="755" })
2020-11-15 12:13:45.948   luup_log:755: VeraTelegram(nil@194): executeCommand("curl --data chat_id=perhusaas --data-urlencode \"text=reqrqe\" --data disable_notification=false \"https://api.telegram.org/bot1460220026:AAHOtQStG8xnTxnV1oAmPfy8MhwQam3Yb-w/sendMessage\""): "{\"ok\":false,\"error_code\":400,\"description\":\"Bad Request: chat not found\"}"
2020-11-15 12:13:45.948   openLuup.server:: request completed (30 bytes, 1 chunks, 132 ms) tcp{client}: 0x5624bd630508

(token above is now revoked and renewed)
So, does this mean that it can't find the bot, or my username?
Also tried to create a channel and added the bot to it, no difference.

[akbooer]

@PerH said in Telegram Plug-in to send text, images and video notifications:

Ok, so the value seems to be correct even if the gui thinks its a date.

Yes, that's the case.

[PerH]

Anything missing here, or is it correct?

[therealdb]

To send a message to Telegram, you'll need a ChatID. From the error message, it's clearly missing.

It's different if you want to send it to a user (UserID is enough or a group).

Here you can find one of the many articles giving instructions: https://medium.com/@sean_bradley/get-telegram-chat-id-80b575520659

[PerH]

But - i did try to send it to my user ID. Does it have to be to a group?

This is what i get when i use the generated chatID:

2020-11-15 17:01:19.487   luup_log:755: VeraTelegram(send@201): send({ action="Send", serviceId="urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraTelegram1", Text="Test!", DeviceNum="755" })
2020-11-15 17:01:22.147   luup_log:755: VeraTelegram(nil@194): executeCommand("curl --data chat_id=-362200779 --data-urlencode \"text=Test!\" --data disable_notification=false \"https://api.telegram.org/bot1460212826:AAGUroMlLkhnneQkmX9rf0H5SggkGMK1QuA/sendMessage\""): "{\"ok\":false,\"error_code\":401,\"description\":\"Unauthorized\"}"

[PerH]

I'll let the token stay up a while if you want to try sending to it..

[therealdb]

@PerH try the new release from GitHub:

GitHub - dbochicchio/vera-Telegram: Notifications via Telegram bot for Vera/openLuup

Notifications via Telegram bot for Vera/openLuup. Contribute to dbochicchio/vera-Telegram development by creating an account on GitHub.

and let me know. It should migrate the keys to a unique key, so we should avoid any problems in the future.

[PerH]

Will do, thanks! Any plans on getting this one into AltAppstore?

[therealdb]

Uh oh, I was sure it already was. I’ll add lately.

[therealdb]

@perh It should be ready to install from AltAppStore!

[toggledbits]

FYI, Reactor's direct support for your plugin (in the Notify action) is now available in 3.9-20321, the stable branch release (so in AltUI, go to Plugins, and on the Reactor row enter "stable" as the version and click the update button).

[PerH]

Contact!

Had to make a new token to make it work, theres no expiry of them, i hope?

Now i have to learn how to send "special" characters, it didnt even like "!".. But i don't intend to yell in my notifications anyway.

Sent one from reactor too Patrick.

To all you developer guys; Awesome job! thankyou for making this great HA system! Hope to join in on making some contributions myself.

[PerH]

didn't find the Message function in this forum, and couldn't send pictures in "chat":
@toggledbits , there's a small UI bug in the stable release:

Other than that, its f**in awesome.

[toggledbits]

I can't reproduce it. What version of AltUI are you on? (see More > Plugins)

[therealdb]

@perh said in Telegram Plug-in to send text, images and video notifications:

Now i have to learn how to send "special" characters, it didnt even like "!"

It should work out of the box. I have emojis in my notifications and they are correctly encoded.