Create a ChatBot for Telegram using Node-RED and RedBot
If you want to automate part of the processes you do every day for your customers or maybe create a simple text interface for controlling your smart home then everything will be straightforward with Node-RED and RedBot extension.
RedBot also supports Facebook Messenger, Smooch, Slack, Alexa, Twilio, and Viber. You can also extend RedBot to support other platforms like Discord.
Install the RedBot plugin in the Node-RED
Connect to the Node-RED web interface by accessing your Raspberry IP and append :1880, e.g.: http://192.168.0.156:1880 or http://raspberrypi.local:1880/ like here.
Don’t have a Raspberry Pi? Setup everything using IBM Cloud for free or on Heroku, also for free.
Navigate to the 🟩 green box “Manage palette” then to the “Install” tab and press the 🟦 blue box “install” button at the right of “node-red-contrib-chatbot”:
