Wiring a Telegram channel (admin)

Each calendar in the club can have a Telegram channel attached. When that’s set up, the bot posts to the channel on event changes, and families with the bot get phone notifications via Telegram.

This is an admin-only setup task. Once a channel is wired, all coaches benefit.

Prerequisites

• A Telegram channel (not group) you control.
• The bot account @teamsummitbot (or your club’s equivalent) added as an admin of that channel — required so it can post.

Screenshot: Telegram channel admin list with bot

Step by step

1. From the coach top nav, go to Groups (admin only).
2. Click into one of the groups under the calendar you’re wiring.
3. Tap Telegram setup.
4. Paste the channel’s channel_id (e.g. -1003388060864 — starts with -100). Telegram doesn’t expose this directly; you can get it from the @username_to_id_bot or via getUpdates after the bot posts once.
5. (Optional) Paste an invite link (https://t.me/+...) — this is what families see on their chat panel for joining.
6. Save.

Every group in the same calendar shares one channel. Wiring one group in a calendar wires the channel for all sibling groups too (post dedupe by channel_id).

Webhook (one-time)

After the channels are wired, register the bot’s webhook with Telegram so we receive channel posts:

curl -sX POST https://ts.onsnowlive.com/api/admin/telegram/webhook \
  -H "cookie: __Host-coach_session=<your-session-token>" | jq

Returns { "ok": true, "webhook_url": "..." }. Now human admin posts in the channel flow into the family-page chat panel and trigger pushes.

Verifying

• Post a manual message in the channel from the Telegram app.
• Within ~1 second, reload a family page in the calendar’s groups — the post appears in the chat panel.
• Families with push enabled get a phone notification.

Adding a second / third calendar

Repeat for each calendar. Three channels for Team Summit: one for Age Class, one for Ability, one for FIS — each wired to their own group_telegram row.