I have been cleaning up the Telegram Bot by foxcris for my own needs. I have primarily switched to using the Telegram Keyboard feature for communication with the Bot. Also, the main use for now with this bot is to toggle lights in my home.

Simple bot to control your home-assistant via a telegram chatbot. As a requirement, the telegram platform has to be configured in home-assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/notify.telegram/).

Currently the bot provides a simple request/response command interface. The following commands are available:

• /help: Help
• /state_cover: State of cover
• /state_vacuum: State of vacuum
• /state_light: State of light
• /state_climate: State of climate
• /state_person: State of person
• /open_cover: Open cover
• /close_cover: Close cover
• /turnoff_light: Turn off light
• /turnon_light: Turn on light
• /start_vacuum: Start vacuum
• /stop_vacuum: Stop running vacuum
• /restart_hass: Restart hass
• /state_system: State of home-assistant
• /state_sensor: State of sensors
• /get_version: Get version of telegrambot
• /turnon_automation: Turn on automation
• /turnoff_automation: Turn off automation
• /trigger_automation: Trigger automation
• /state_automation: State of automation
• send location message from telegram: for each defined zone in home-assistant the travel time from the current location sent is computed

Just copy the files

• TelegramBot.py
• Helper.py

to your apps folder of appaemon and add the following configuration to your apps.yaml (example data shown for some parameters)

TelegramBot:
  module:                   TelegramBot
  class:                    TelegramBot
  debug:                    True
  extend_system:            sensor.date,sensor.heartbeat
  filter_blacklist:     
    - load_1m
    - load_5m
  filter_whitelist:
    - sample
  routing:
    waze:
      region:               EU
      avoid_toll_roads:     True

extend_system: comma separated list of complete entities to include in the system report filter_blacklist: python regex to exclude entities from being reported/used from telegrambot filter_whitelist: python regex to whitelist entities from being reported/used from telegrambot The following logic is used to apply the blacklist and whitelist:

• If the blacklist is empty - nothing is filtered out
• If the whitelist is empty - nothing is filtered out
• If both the blacklist and whitelist are non-empty, first the blacklist ist applied and then the whitelist

routing: currently only waze is supported. region can be 'US','EU','IL','AU' and is used to select the correct routingserver from waze. avoid_toll_roads is a boolean to enable/disable the use of toll roads in the travel time computation.

The file Helper.py is also used by one of my other appdaemon project. In both projects the same file is used!

• All contributions are welcome!
• A PR must be accompanied with some tests for the new feature
• Please take care that:
  • The code is readable and is optimally documented
  • The code passes all tests

For the unit test the Appdamon-Test-Framework is used together with pytest.

All necessary requirements are listed in the requirements-dev.txt