Setup Telegram Bot

This document helps to setup your telegram to receive messages from MyController.
MyController needs a telegram token and a chat id and/or group id to send a messages.

• Create a bot and generate a token
• Get user chat id
• Get group id

Create a telegram bot

Open Telegram messenger, sign in to your account or create a new one.

1. Enter @Botfather in the search tab and choose this bot.
   Note: official Telegram bots have a blue checkmark beside their name
2. Click START to activate BotFather bot. In response, you receive a list of commands to manage bots.
3. Choose or type the /newbot command and send it.
4. Choose a name for your bot. And choose a username for your bot, the bot can be found by its username in searches. The username must be unique and end with the word bot
5. After you choose a suitable name for your bot, the bot is created. You will receive a message with a link to your bot t.me/<bot_username>, recommendations to set up a profile picture, description, and a list of commands to manage your new bot.
6. To connect a bot to MyController you need a token. Copy your token value and add it in to Telegram handler.

Get user chat id

User chat id can be extracted via API or with a supported bot.
Here the details are given to get chat id via MyController.org bot

• On your telegram application on the search input enter mycontroller_org_bot.
  You can see MyController.org bot bot as shown blow.
  
  

• Click on the START to get connect with MyController.org bot
  
  

• MyController.org bot info will be as below,
  
  

• Send a text chat id, you will get a response with your chat_id
  
  

Get group chat id

Group id can be extracted via API or with a known bot.
Here the details are given to get group id via MyController.org bot

• Open your group and click on Add members
  
  

• on the search input type mycontroller_org then select MyController.org bot and click on ADD
  
  

• Send a text chat id, you will get a response with your group_id and chat_id