How to set up Telegram mining notifications
Link Telegram to your mining wallet: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, choose your events and use the chat commands.
Where do I set up Telegram alerts?
You set up Telegram alerts from your own miner dashboard. There is no account to create and no password to remember.
- Open the pool site for the coin you are mining.
- Paste your wallet address into the search box on the miner page.
- Open the Settings tab and choose Notifications.
Not every HeroMiners pool sends notifications yet. If your pool's Settings tab has no Notifications section, that pool does not offer them for now.
Did you start from the HeroMiners hub? Its panel has a button that opens your dashboard on the pool site. Then open the Settings tab and choose Notifications as above.
Notifications belong to one pool at a time. So you always set them up on the site of the coin you are mining.
How does the pool know the address is yours?
Anyone can look up any address. So before you change a setting, the pool checks that the request comes from a machine mining to it. The same check guards your payout threshold.
Most of the time it passes on its own. That is because you open the dashboard from the same connection your rig uses. So open the page from the network you mine on.
Some HeroMiners pools ask for real work first. There, a rig that has just started counts once it has sent enough accepted shares. The page tells you when this applies.
If the check does not pass, the page asks for the IP address of the network your rigs mine from. You can paste it in. The How to find your worker IP address guide shows where to read that number on Windows, Linux and HiveOS.
Copy the verify command
- Press Telegram in the notification panel.
- Press Link Telegram.
- It shows a short verify command with a six digit code in it.
- Copy the whole line with the copy button next to it, not just the digits.
The code works once and expires after ten minutes. If you take too long, press Get a new code under it. So you can never get stuck.
Send the command to the bot
- Open Telegram and find @HeroMinersPoolBot.
- Start a direct message with the bot.
- Paste the line you copied and send it.
The bot works in direct messages only. Added to a group or a channel, it leaves at once, so a code sent there gets no answer. Your alerts arrive in that same direct message.
Sending the code from the chat proves the chat is yours. That is why it goes to the bot instead of the web page. The bot replies as soon as it accepts the code.
Confirm the link and choose your events
Go back to the dashboard and press the button confirming you sent the code. Telegram now shows as linked. The link button is replaced by a switch for each event.
- A block found by the pool.
- A block you found solo.
- A payment sent to you.
- A worker that has gone quiet.
- A meaningful drop in your hashrate.
- A pool announcement.
Only the events that apply to how you mine are listed. A reply to a support ticket is not switched here. You choose its channels on the ticket itself when you open it.
All switches start on. Turn off the events not worth interrupting you for.
What can I ask the bot in the chat?
Once the chat is linked, you can talk to the bot without opening the dashboard.
- /stats sends back your current hashrate and balance.
- /help lists everything the bot understands.
- /mute with a number of hours starts a quiet period. With no number, it uses the default length.
- /unmute ends a mute early.
- /stop switches the Telegram channel off entirely.
- /unlink removes the link.
The bot's /help command states the longest mute and the default length. A mute silences every channel linked to your address, including ntfy and browser push.
A channel stopped with /stop shows as paused on the dashboard, with a button to resume it. The bot has no command to start it again. So resume it from the dashboard.
How do I unlink Telegram?
Turning one event switch off stops that event straight away. Unlinking the channel stops all of them and removes the link. After that, the bot no longer knows which address the chat belongs to.
You can unlink from the dashboard, or by sending /unlink to the bot. Linking again later takes the same few steps with a fresh code. Nothing about your mining changes either way.