The group and the button

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The group and the button#

Two Telegram elements, two jobs:

Red Escudo <Village>The group. Alerts arrive, neighbours organise.

Botón EscudoThe bot. One tap raises the alarm.

The bot is the virtual version of a panic button — not an assistant, and not a chat you converse with. It lives on the phone, always in the same place, and pressing it tells the village.

Setting it up in your village

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Setting it up in your village#

Nothing to buy and nothing to subscribe to. This layer runs on a laptop for nothing, and only needs somewhere permanent once the community decides to carry on.

1. The names#

Element	Name	Notes
The group	`Red Escudo <Village>`	e.g. Red Escudo Bercianos.
The bot, display name	`Botón Escudo`	The same in every village.
The bot, username	`@Escudo<Village>Bot`	e.g. `@EscudoBercianosBot`.

A bot has two names. The @username is unique across all of Telegram and must end in bot, so every village registers its own. The display name can repeat, so Botón Escudo works everywhere — it’s what appears in each neighbour’s chat list.

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The group and the button

The group and the button#

Setting it up in your village

Setting it up in your village#

1. The names#