Missing Bot Identification in Telegram Integration Events #149799
Description
The problem
After adding support for multiple Telegram bots in Home Assistant, there's no way to distinguish which bot received a message in automation triggers. This causes all automations listening to telegram_text events to trigger regardless of which bot actually received the message.
Current Behavior
When a message is sent to any configured Telegram bot, the telegram_text event is fired with the following data structure:
event_type: telegram_text
data:
id: 5357
chat_id: 1234556789
date: "2025-07-31T21:51:27+00:00"
message_thread_id: null
text: "status"
user_id: 1234556789
from_first: "Vasiliy"
from_last: null
Issue: There's no identifier indicating which bot received the message.
Expected Behavior
The event data should include bot identification information, such as:
event_type: telegram_text
data:
id: 5357
chat_id: 1234556789
bot_id: "987654321" # or bot_username, config_entry_id, etc.
bot_username: "my_water_bot"
config_entry_id: "01K1H4Z8VPC00JCCP7V7PBRAQN"
date: "2025-07-31T21:51:27+00:00"
text: "status"
user_id: 1234556789
from_first: "Vasiliy"
from_last: null
Use Case
I have two Telegram bots configured:
Water Monitoring Bot - handles commands like checkstatus, testwater
Gates Bot - handles commands like status, open, close
Both bots receive messages from the same users, but currently there's no way to create separate automations that respond only to their respective bot's messages.
Proposed Solution
Add one or more of the following fields to the telegram_text event data:
bot_id - Telegram bot ID
bot_username - Bot username (without @)
config_entry_id - Home Assistant config entry ID
bot_name - Friendly name from HA configuration
This would allow automations to filter events like:
yamlconditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.bot_username == 'my_water_bot' }}"
What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?
core-2025.7.4
What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?
No response
What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant OS
Integration causing the issue
Telegram
Link to integration documentation on our website
No response
Diagnostics information
No response
Example YAML snippet
alias: Telegram Water Bot Commands
description: Telegram Water Bot Commands
triggers:
- event_type: telegram_text
trigger: event
conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.bot_id == 123456789 }}" // <- Not working
enabled: false
actions:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ trigger.event.data.text in ['/start', '/menu', 'menu', 'Menu']
}}
alias: menu
sequence:
- data:
target: "{{ trigger.event.data.chat_id }}"
message: Бот мониторинга воды
inline_keyboard:
- Проверить статус:/checkstatus
- Тест датчика воды:/testwater
- Тест светодиода:/testled
config_entry_id: 01K02EC6xxxxF11YQHFCP3
action: telegram_bot.send_message
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ trigger.event.data.text in ['/checkstatus', 'checkstatus',
'Checkstatus', '1'] }}
sequence:
- data:
target: "{{ trigger.event.data.chat_id }}"
message: Проверяю...
config_entry_id: 01K02EC6xxxxx11YQHFCP3
action: telegram_bot.send_message
- data:
target: "{{ trigger.event.data.chat_id }}"
message: >
🔍 Статус системы: 💧 Уровень воды: {% if
is_state('binary_sensor.botwater_water_level_high', 'on') %}🔴
ВЫСОКИЙ (ОПАСНО!){% else %}🟢 НОРМАЛЬНЫЙ{% endif %} 🚰 Насос: {%
if is_state('binary_sensor.botwater_water_pump_status', 'on')
%}🔴 НЕТ НАПОРА{% else %}🟢 НАПОР ОК{% endif %} 📊 Sensor: {{
states('sensor.botwater_pump_led_sensor') }}V
config_entry_id: 01K02xxxxF11YQHFCP3
action: telegram_bot.send_message
alias: checkstatus
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.text in ['/testwater', 'testwater'] }}"
sequence:
- target:
entity_id: button.botwater_test_water_level
action: button.press
data: {}
alias: testwater
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.text in ['/testled', 'testled'] }}"
sequence:
- target:
entity_id: button.botwater_test_led
action: button.press
data: {}
alias: testled
default:
- data:
target: "{{ trigger.event.data.chat_id }}"
message: Неизвестная команда
config_entry_id: 01K02EC65xxxxxx1YQHFCP3
action: telegram_bot.send_message
enabled: false
mode: singleAnything in the logs that might be useful for us?
In automation trigger this data:
variables:
trigger:
id: "0"
idx: "0"
alias: null
platform: event
event:
event_type: telegram_text
data:
id: 5357
chat_id: 1234556789
date: "2025-07-31T21:51:27+00:00"
message_thread_id: null
text: status
user_id: 1234556789
from_first: Vasiliy
from_last: null
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2025-07-31T21:51:28.005542+00:00"
context:
id: 01K1HxxxxxxWB0PAEEX1RGYMQ
parent_id: null
user_id: null
description: event 'telegram_text'
context:
id: 01K1H7FZxxxxxAEEX1RGYMQ
parent_id: null
user_id: nullAdditional information
No response