hello everyone, good evening i have integrated telegram with my node red, i am able to send messages and get responds from node red. but now i am looking forward to requesting for a picture from node red and the picture send to me on the telegram bot. i have looked at lots of tutorials and tried the…

You have missed out the camera node Which node is it that takes the picture & can you export the flow again with the camera node included

i have tried using this your flow, i can actually get random pictures. but not local. how can i make this send me pics from my camera

i did not use a camera node, from all the tutorials i saw they just used a function node and did it the way i did mine and got pictures. so i did not used any camera node.

i have a USB webcam connected to my pi wen i request for the picture i get capturing image but the picture never comes thats probably why you dont get an image - unless I misunderstand your setup [image] Chenko: i have tried using this your flow, i can actually get random pictures. but no…

[image] Chenko: i did not use a camera node, from all the tutorials i saw they just used a function node You will need asomething to get an image from camera. I Suggest the USBCamera node Youre gonna need something like this.... [image] Use the flow I posted & replace the HTTP node" or "F…

okay thank you let me try that and see what happens

i have done that and it did not still work i get this message from from the image preview node Input should be a buffer or a base64 string or a Jimp image (containing a jpg or png image)

add a debug after camera - what comes out of the camera node? Did you set it to output a buffer? share your flow

and the telegram node also fires saying msg.payload.chatId is empty i set the file mode to buffer and the same information was displayed

show me your flow and the debug output of the camera add a debug on the output of the telegram command node add a debug on the output camera node add a debug (set to show complete message) just before the telegram reply node - lets see whats in there inspect them - is everything in the right plac…

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eitijupaenoithoowohd 3 August 2020 11:20 28

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Hi. May I ask flow example? Thank you in advance.

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Taking a picture and sending it via telegram

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