message from bot to group

scimmiettarossa commented 3 years ago

Hi everyone I have the following issue:

I've set a bot to be used as a notificator for my domotics implementation, running on a Cubieboard1 SOC
teòegram-cli is started as a daemon on the Cubieboard itself, using the bot account
I set a pair of groups with my personal account, my husband's, and the bot
all three of us are admin of the groups (including the bot)
but, each time the Cubieboard is restarted, (or the daemon is restarted), the bot is not capable to send the messages: the log says the usual error that occur when a destination is not resolved (FAIL: 38: can not parse arg #1), until at least one of us is sending a first whatever message to the group, so the bot receives it and becomes able to reply; this in spite of the bot being and admin

I know that this limitation is intended, to avoid that bot can spam all around.. but I'm wondering if there is a way to overcome it, or to solve in another way; the alternative to use another phone number to create a "service" individual account is something I would avoid, if possible

ic-scm commented 3 years ago

Are you not able to resolve the group by running the commands 'dialog_list' or 'resolve_username' when starting telegram-cli? You can also start telegram-cli with the '-W' option to automatically run dialog_list and resolve chats on startup.

scimmiettarossa commented 3 years ago

I will try.. at the moment I discovered another problem: the standalone telegram-cli works.. while the daemon open the port 2391 on localhost.. but any command sent to this port obtains just the response "sh: 1: 2: not found"

scimmiettarossa commented 3 years ago

I tried your hints on the standalone program, with no success... "BOT METHOD INVALID"

still trying to have the daemon working

kenorb-contrib / tg

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