Non-critical error 'chat_id is none' after update

[laroy-sh]

Hi Swar, thank you for this app so much, it's fantastic, I swear I'll donate as soon as I get my reward!
I've just updated the app and I can see some non-critical error thrown during start:
Couldn't get chat_id!
list index out of range
chat_id is none, nothing sent!
Plot Manager has started...

I guess it may have something to do with the Telegram notification (thank you for adding it!!!) that I've configured with a token, but what is a chat_id? There's no such setting in the config.

I'm still not sure if the notification is working or not.
By the way, I only saw notifications about manager start and plot ready, but never about manager stopped or disk full, which are IMHO the most important. Are there any plans to let us configure the notifications?

[alx741]

make sure to surround your token with singles quotes like (replace with the token you've got from bot_father):

  notify_telegram: true
  telegram_token: '688*****888:AA****nbJW5p*****40T21******v7I*****E'

Then, before starting the manager, send a Telegram message to your bot, you can do that by searching for it with the name you gave it, then send any message to it ("hi" is fine). Now you can start the manager $ python manager.py start and it should work.

[jabreu-soap]

Couldn't get chat_id! list index out of range

[alx741]

@jocieldo-soap "Talked with the bot", but do that right before restarting the manager

[dieg0nob]

@dieg0nob have you tried sending a message (via Telegram) to your bot?, even if you've done that in the past do it again now, just say "hi" to it and restart the manager

Yes, I have tried sending a message to the bot, and restarting the manager many times, approximately 15 times, and without any result and suddenly when I finished a plot, I received a notification to the bot, I cannot explain why it did not work, surely it is some telegram stuff. Now if i restart or finish a plot, receive a msj.
Thanks!

[cherymann]

There is a new pull request In the pipeline that adds the option to insert your chat_id that will fix this problem. #757

[kissaev]

I just hardcoded my id in Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager\venv\Lib\site-packages\telegram_notifier\telegram_notifier.py and notifications works fine

[alx741]

@lipefur Try this:

0. Make sure you ran pip isntall -r requirements-notification.txt
1. run python manager.py stop
2. Make double sure the token you have in the config is what the BotFather gave you
3. Text your bot again (say "hi" to it), and make sure it is actually your bot (it's easy to text another user/bot by mistake instead of your own if the name is similar)
4. Run python manager.py start
5. See if it works this time around

[kissaev]

Everything is cool but to make it works for me I have had to add chat_id: number inside config.

Where do you add chat_id, in config.yaml file near bot token?

[alx741]

There is no way to add the chat_id in the config file... My guess is you made it work and have a phony "chat_id" setting that is doing nothing, but you believe it does.

[k0b1]

Ok that looks like this has second side ( and I have experienced something new as this error has pop-up on my screen) for my setup after python manager.py start fallowing your howto I got error that chat id is missing.

so I have input myself new line to confing - that's help me and solved my problem.

TELEGRAM

notify_telegram: true
chat_id: -XXXXXyour number ( this '-' appear only for my chat_id number - yours might be without...)
telegram_token: 'your token for bot from botfather'

but for purpose of this conversation I have attempt to #chat_id number to see if error will appear once more...
the answer is - no error anymore.

conclusion: chat_id error might appear.... u can solve it by adding chat_id number and from that moment its become useless :) as bot will know where is located your group :)

[kissaev]

There is no way to add the chat_id in the config file... My guess is you made it work and have a phony "chat_id" setting that is doing nothing, but you believe it does.

yea, notifications working fine without "chat_id", thanks
...
I got excited early. It stop working, and i got this error too Couldn't get chat_id! list index out of range

[cherymann]

#757 is coming with the chat_id in the config file

[CheepingItReal]

For me the issue was that I didn't do:

pip install -r requirements-notification.txt

[alx741]

Oh yeah! don't forget that folks! good catch

[alx741]

@galaxy-god

Make sure you ran pip isntall -r requirements-notification.txt, then restart the manager.

If that doesn't work then it might be that the configuration of your bot (on the Telegram side of things) got broken somehow. The BotFather lets you delete a bot (text him for instructions on that), try and delete yours and then start over creating a new one, you'll get a new token, put that one in the config.yaml, make sure to text "hi" to the new bot, and then start the manager.

[galaxy-god]

@alx741 Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that, Can I run it while my plots are running? Thanks!

[alx741]

I believe so... no promises though

[galaxy-god]

@alx741 Thanks man, much appreciated!

[brux88]

hello, congratulations for the wonderful project, but if I created my bot and put it inside a group, how does it open the chat id of that group, is it possible?