Telegram Notifications Plugin (discourse-telegram-notifications)

Perhaps a dumb question, but what notifications should I expect to see via Telegram? The bot is up and running, I send it a message and get a Chat ID, I put that ID into my user profile, but despite having gotten a couple of email notifications since that time, I haven’t seen anything on Telegram. Should I have, or is there someplace else I need to set up those notifications?

If logs are needed to help figure this out, I’m fine with posting them, but I’ll need some guidance on where to look for them.

Proofreading always helps–turns out I’d (apparently, though I never saw the error) entered the Chat ID incorrectly. Now that it’s re-entered, notifications work as expected. Cool!

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Hi. I’m trying to get this configured but I’m stuck on trying to get the Bot to send me the Chat ID. No matter what i type, I get no response.

First I created the bot following the directions.
Then I created a Group in Telegram and add the bot as a member.
Then i try to send a message, even tagging the bot and still no response.

I even try to create a channel and message the bot but still no response.
I even tried doing it through the desktop pp and through my mobile phone app, still no luck.

Im not sure what else to do.

Also, Do i need both, discourse-chat-integration and discourse-telegram-notifications installed?

I don’t see anywhere in the docs that it says to create a group, and in fact I see a recommendation to disallow the bot from being added to a group. Send a message directly to the bot, not to a group that includes the bot.

According to the OP (it’s even in a shaded box at the top), they do different things:

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thanks for the input, ill try again.

Can I use Chatroom Integration Plugin & Telegram notification plugins at the same? I have integrated chatroom integration plugin successfully and its working fine, but Telegram notification plugin is not notifying users. The bot just show me this!

testbot, [28.12.19 15:58]
Hi Administrator, I'll message you when you have new notifications on Engineer's Asylum. 
Replying to a notification will post a reply on Engineer's Asylum.
To disable, visit your user preferences.

From the OP:

I haven’t done it myself, but that appears to answer the question.

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I found where i went wrong, i was putting the access token in the chat integration plugin area, i found the one in the plugins settings area for telegram, messaged the bot and I got a response!

Blockquote Im still not getting the bot to respond and provide me the chat id via telegram. I tried to send a message to the bot itself. i tried to create a channel via telegram and tag the bot with a message. still i got nothing

Have you found a fix for this? I got this issue too.

I have just opened this PR to the plugin:

It adds support for that string, and also for the Discourse Follow Plugin
I hope staff merges it soon

Looks great, I just merged it - thanks @barreeeiroo :smiley:

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If you plan to expand this to offer Viber and SMS notifications, look at my project GitHub - Sprachprofi/notifications_sample: Demonstrating how to cleanly handle opt-in/opt-out and notifications via a variety of platforms

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@david
Very useful plugin, Thank you! :blush:

Can I use {name} instead of {username} in translations?

Unfortunately not, that would require a change to the code of the plugin

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Hey @david, my bot sometimes not working … Checked the token and site SSL, all ok… Any ideas?

I had checked the logs and those all about private messages:
Failed to send Telegram message. Message data= "… private message …"

/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/logster-2.5.1/lib/logster/logger.rb:112:in `report_to_store'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/logster-2.5.1/lib/logster/logger.rb:103:in `add_with_opts'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/logster-2.5.1/lib/logster/logger.rb:54:in `add'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.6.0/logger.rb:543:in `error'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-telegram-notifications/services/discourse_telegram_notifications/telegram-notifier.rb:46:in `doRequest'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-telegram-notifications/services/discourse_telegram_notifications/telegram-notifier.rb:7:in `sendMessage'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-telegram-notifications/plugin.rb:234:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:232:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rails_multisite-2.0.7/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:63:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:221:in `block in perform'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:217:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:217:in `perform'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:196:in `execute_job'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:164:in `block (2 levels) in process'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:138:in `block in invoke'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sidekiq/pausable.rb:138:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:140:in `block in invoke'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:143:in `invoke'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:163:in `block in process'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:136:in `block (6 levels) in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:111:in `local'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:135:in `block (5 levels) in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq.rb:37:in `block in <module:Sidekiq>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:131:in `block (4 levels) in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:257:in `stats'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:126:in `block (3 levels) in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:13:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:125:in `block (2 levels) in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:78:in `global'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:124:in `block in dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/logger.rb:10:in `with'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:33:in `prepare'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:123:in `dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:162:in `process'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:78:in `process_one'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:68:in `run'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/util.rb:15:in `watchdog'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/sidekiq-6.0.4/lib/sidekiq/util.rb:24:in `block in safe_thread'

Greeting.
Same problem with installation of this plugin…

Problem & Lösung:

Problem:
Ich war sehr verwirrt zwischen den beiden Plugins, zwei Telegram-Bots, zwei Telegram-Chats (Telegram-Kanal und Telegram-Gruppe). In dieser Verwirrung wurde mir immer ein Feld namens „Telegram-Token

Wäre es möglich, eine Benachrichtigung zu erhalten, wenn ein Beitrag zur Freigabe aussteht?

Hey @david!
Zunächst einmal vielen Dank für das Plugin. Es ist alles eingerichtet, funktioniert und ich kann es kaum erwarten, es der Community vorzustellen.
Ich habe jedoch ein paar Fragen:

  1. Wie kann ich es in meine Sprache übersetzen, um es für unsere Community noch einfacher zu machen?

  2. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, entweder über Telegram oder Discourse, das Erscheinungsbild der Telegram-Nachricht zu steuern? Die Schriftart sieht nicht gut aus, und zwischen den Wörtern des eigentlichen Nachrichtentextes, der von Discourse gesendet wird, befinden sich doppelte Leerzeichen (die Plugin-Texte sehen hingegen völlig in Ordnung aus).

Mir auch. Ich mag nicht wirklich, wie es aussieht.

Schön zu hören, dass das immer noch funktioniert. Ich denke, ich werde es in meiner Community ausprobieren.