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Hi. Your setup is very clever with a two bot system, but the Telethon component does not seem to be able to capture messages from groups unless I am the admin of the group.

I.e. if I create a group "test", and add that group to "input_channel_names", then the bot works fine. But if I add some other group to "input_channel_names" which I did not create myself, then nothing happens. It does not detect a single message from any other groups.

I even put a debug print in forwarding_handler and it is never called. Any idea why that is? Something seems to be wrong with the initial setup.

I can see in the Telethon debug output that it's receiving updates from these other groups, but in the code the forwarding handler is never triggered.

Hey Kelvin,

Clueless about python. I do a bit of PowerShell for my work but that is it. I ran the first python run_bot.py with no issue, and I do see 'message' as I type the messaged but on the secondary window I am seeing below error. Any ideas to where I might be going wrong?

C:\Program Files\Spyder\telegram-sentinel-master\telegram-sentinel-master\forward_msg>python main.py config.yml
Entity-check successful!
Listening on 2 channels. Forwarding messages to chatSentinel_bot.
Unhandled exception on forwarding_handler
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Test\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\telethon\client\updates.py", line 454, in _dispatch_update
await callback(event)
File "C:\Program Files\Spyder\telegram-sentinel-master\telegram-sentinel-master\forward_msg\main.py", line 69, in forwarding_handler
await client.forward_messages(output_channel_entity, event.message)
File "C:\Users\Test\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\telethon\client\messages.py", line 985, in forward_messages
result = await self(req)
File "C:\Users\Test\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\telethon\client\users.py", line 30, in call
return await self._call(self._sender, request, ordered=ordered)
File "C:\Users\Test\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\telethon\client\users.py", line 79, in _call
result = await future
telethon.errors.rpcerrorlist.PeerIdInvalidError: An invalid Peer was used. Make sure to pass the right peer type and that the value is valid (for instance, bots cannot start conversations) (caused by ForwardMessagesRequest)