MAX — notifications and commands for RF users

If Telegram is restricted by your ISP, rig notifications and commands can arrive in the MAX messenger (max.ru). One condition: a MAX bot is created by a business profile — a sole trader, a company or a self-employed person.

How to connect

  1. Create a MAX business bot

    Open business.max.ru → the "Chat bots" section → create a bot. Important: the platform serves business profiles — sole traders, companies and self-employed persons; a regular account cannot create a bot. The token is under Chat bots → ⋮ → Settings.

  2. Get the chat_id

    Find your bot in MAX and message it. Then ask the built-in "Get ID" bot for your ID — that is the chat_id. In the setup wizard the ID is picked up automatically.

  3. Connect the channel

    In the setup wizard choose "3) MAX", or in Telegram with OCBot send: /notify max TOKEN CHAT_ID. Internally it is the max://<chat_id>?token=<token> format; the token is masked in /notify listings.

  4. Check it

    /notify test — a test message arrives in MAX with a [rig name] prefix.

What arrives and how it looks

Messages start with the rig name: MAX shows them as one stream — otherwise you cannot tell which rig the event belongs to. Text is limited to 4000 characters by the MAX API; long notices are trimmed with "…".

Each rig has its own channel: its own token or chat_id. To disable — /notify off max; active channels — /notify.

Control lives in MAX too

The channel is two-way: type the usual commands (/status, /tune 3, /stop — all of them) straight to your bot in MAX and the replies arrive there as well. The only limitation: files (CSV tables, the preset catalog) are sent to Telegram only.

MAX officially recommends webhooks and rate-limits the long polling the bot uses — for a personal rig it is unnoticeable: a command goes through with a few seconds of delay.

FAQ

"not a MAX channel" / format error

The MAX channel uses exactly the max://<chat_id>?token=<token> format; /notify builds it from two arguments. Order: token first, then chat_id.

Missing token or chat_id

One of the arguments is empty. The token is the long string from business.max.ru, the chat_id is a number from "Get ID".

Messages do not arrive

Message the bot in MAX (the dialog must exist, "Start" button), then repeat /notify test. The chat_id must match the one "Get ID" showed.

MAX API error / timeout

A one-off issue on the MAX side or in the network: repeat /notify test later. Channel states are visible in /notify.

Can anyone see my token?

No: the token is masked in /notify lists and stored in full only in config.json on the rig itself.

Can I skip the business profile?

That is how the MAX platform works: a bot is created by a sole trader, a company or a self-employed person. If that is not you — take ntfy (zero registration at all) or Telegram.

Terms: connect with /notify …, test with /notify test, disable with /notify off …; full terms and disclaimer are in the guide.

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