Telegram
A skill to control your Mycroft instance through a TelegramBot
telegram-skill.luke5sky
Description:
You need to create a telegram bot (via BotFather) and save the Bot Token, your ChatID and your MyCroft Device name on home.mycroft.ai under skill settings. You can now commmunicate with your MyCroft Unit via this bot.
Settings:
BOT TOKEN (MANDATORY): Your bot token you got from BotFather
DEVICE NAME (CASE SENSITIVE | MANDATORY): Your Device name you configured on home.mycroft.ai - Devices - Registered Devices
BOT TOKEN SECOND MYCROFT DEVICE (OPTIONAL): If you have a second Mycroft Device and you want to use this skill with it -> put your second bot token here (it has to be an other bot than the first one because telegram only allows one device to get updates from one bot)
SECOND MYCROFT DEVICE NAME (IF YOU HAVE A SECOND DEVICE): Your Device name from your second Device you configured on home.mycroft.ai - Devices - Registered Devices
PRIMARY USERNAME (OPTIONAL): You do not need to put anything here, the skill does not use this field. It is only for yourself to know which Chat ID belongs to whom
PRIMARY CHAT ID (MANDATORY): You will get your Chat ID from the Telegram-Skill if you have configured BOT TOKEN (first field) and DEVICE NAME, saved and then write anything to the bot.
SECOND USERNAME (OPTIONAL): For second User if you have one
SECOND CHAT ID (IF YOU HAVE A SECOND USER): Same as PRIMARY CHAT ID with Telegram-Account of second user
Detailed HowTo:
Install this skill on your Mycroft Device
Create a telegram bot: Open Telegram App on your smartphone, click on the search symbol in the upper right corner Search for BotFather and click on it Now type /newbot hit enter Botfather should reply with: Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? please chosse a name for your bot. Give your bot a displayname like Mycroft Botfather should reply with: Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris-bot. Give your bot unique username like lukesmycroftbot Botfather should now give you your token for this bot Save this token and don't post it online or send it to people, safety first!
Telegram documentation on botfather: https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather
Go to home.mycroft.ai - skills and search for the telegram-skills settings
Copy/paste your token botfather gave you in the field BOT TOKEN (MANDATORY)
Copy/paste your device name from home.mycroft.ai - devices in DEVICE NAME (CASE SENSITIVE | MANDATORY)
SAVE and wait till the settings are synced to your Mycroft Unit (or reboot your device to trigger the sync)
Open Telegram App on your smartphone and search (upper right corner) for your bot (username or displayname) click on it and write test or hello to your bot It should respond with: This is your ChatID: YOURCHATID
Copy/paste this under PRIMARY CHAT ID (MANDATORY)
SAVE and wait till the settings are synced to your Mycroft Unit (or reboot your device to trigger the sync)
On every reboot your bot should send you this welcome message: Telegram-Skill on Mycroft Unit YOURUNIT is loaded and ready to use.
Platform:
Installation:
This skill is in Mycroft Market and is thereby aproved by the Mycroft Skill testers
Hey Mycroft - install Telegram
Summary:
Github: https://github.com/luke5sky/telegram-skill Owner: @luke5sky Created: 2018 Jul 04 10:49:00 UTC Last updated: 2020 Oct 15 13:43:21 UTC License: Apache License 2.0 Market status: In Market Categories: [ Productivity ] [ IoT ] Tags: #messenger #bot #telegram-bot
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