From 8666161044d3b8a459704050e559e2abe2bb8b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hanwg Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 16:15:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Explain how data is fetched for Telegram bot (#42349) --- source/_integrations/telegram_bot.markdown | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/_integrations/telegram_bot.markdown b/source/_integrations/telegram_bot.markdown index 4ff41d66179..76b1b95e257 100644 --- a/source/_integrations/telegram_bot.markdown +++ b/source/_integrations/telegram_bot.markdown @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Telegram implementation to support **sending messages only**. Your Home Assistan ### Polling Telegram chatbot polling implementation. +This implementation fetches data from Telegram via long polling with a timeout of 10 seconds. +(In long polling, the bot will wait until the timeout expires before fetching the data again if there are no updates from Telegram.) + Your Home Assistant instance does not have to be exposed to the internet. ### Webhooks