receiving messages from other bots

[Marcopolox13]

Hey
I use the Telegramm bot for my openhab server and for connecting ifttt to it.
The problem is, when the ifttt bot writes a message to my node red bot it isn't receiving it, I checked via debug.

[lstefanlombard]

I'm having a similar problem. I think it might have something to do with the /start command which starts the chat with the bot

[windkh]

@Marcopolox13 maybe you have to show this to me, because I can not really get what your problem is

[Marcopolox13]

@windkh I have a group chat with the node red bot, the ifttt bot and me.
If I send a comment to the group my node red server reads it but if the ifttt bot writes the same comment the node red bot ignores it. I checked it with debug, node red just reads my messages and completely ignors everything from the ifttt bot.

[windkh]

https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#why-doesn-39t-my-bot-see-messages-from-other-bots

Is that the explanation to your problem?

[Marcopolox13]

Yes, thanks.

Isn't there a way around it?

[windkh]

It depends on what use case you have… maybe what you wantbto achieve can be done in a different way. But there is no way to let bots play ping pong with messages as this can lead to endless loops.

[Marcopolox13]

Ok thanks