Telegram in Home Assistant
telegram
part of Home Assistant since 0.7.5
Telegram is an official Home Assistant integration for Notifications. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Not rated – Older than the quality scale and not rated against it yet – that says nothing about whether it works.
- Installations
- 8,483 (1.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Notifications
- Provides
- Notifications
Setup
- This integration is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the user interface.
- The documentation lists the exact entries; restart Home Assistant after adding them.
Known issues and fixes
0 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Telegram in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.1.0.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.1.0 Bug fix #160367
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration