Adaptive cards are really sweet now. I dont know how far you can push getting a whole system front end in it, then the operator/user just actions stuff in a conversation...
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostThat's a nice setup. I was idly thinking about the ability to make it 2-way so I can save time. e.g. Elon tweets something stupid at 2am and TSLA starts to crash, you get an alert "you might want to sell" and a way to action that with one button rather than fire up your PC, log in to your broker app, set up the trade.
A little OTT but hey I'm a coder it's a fun thing to do. I'd not considered linking to a bot but it presumably does a lot of the comms stuff 'for free' using code someone else has tested for you.
The bot really is just a number of methods that I can trigger by HTTP that create the cards, and a big switch that takes the replies and calls a range of logic apps. Bot is kind of over selling what ive got but that is the technical name for it. Rather than write a front end, ive just embded all my front end use case triggers in teams and present the range of actions available depending on state.
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Originally posted by minestrone View Postive got a teams bot that sends me a range of activity cards on teams when an event takes place or a decision is needed. The buttons are on the messages it sends. "do this", "SMS back this", "send here". Can basically work from the pub.
A little OTT but hey I'm a coder it's a fun thing to do. I'd not considered linking to a bot but it presumably does a lot of the comms stuff 'for free' using code someone else has tested for you.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostI use slack webhooks, install the slack app on my phone and desktop (which I use anyway so its not "another app" for me)
And then call the webhook like this
Code:curl -X POST -H Content-type: application/json --data {"text":"04:09:44 databaseName backups started"} https://hooks.slack.com/services/*********/*********/*********************
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I use teams now for this stuff, I used to use slack. I use either logic apps or flow to kick off the message.
Zapier and IFTTT just are not in the same league, and flow while it freaks people out ( i dont know why ) is very easy to use. You can literally create a flow, drop a slack or teams box under the trigger and that is it.
I do websites that trap finance applications, the workflow after that is about 6 steps, ive got a teams bot that sends me a range of activity cards on teams when an event takes place or a decision is needed. The buttons are on the messages it sends. "do this", "SMS back this", "send here". Can basically work from the pub.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostI use slack webhooks, install the slack app on my phone and desktop (which I use anyway so its not "another app" for me)
And then call the webhook like this
Code:curl -X POST -H Content-type: application/json --data {"text":"04:09:44 databaseName backups started"} https://hooks.slack.com/services/*********/*********/*********************
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I use slack webhooks, install the slack app on my phone and desktop (which I use anyway so its not "another app" for me)
And then call the webhook like this
Code:curl -X POST -H Content-type: application/json --data {"text":"04:09:44 databaseName backups started"} https://hooks.slack.com/services/*********/*********/*********************
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Originally posted by Paralytic View PostHire a millennial to sit at your desk and give you a call when the specific triggers occur. There's someone on here that needs a few extra £ to boost their meagre £100K income - i'm sure she'll be interested (unless you were born before 1964).
https://www.codementor.io/@garethdwy...rt-1-goi5fncay
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Looks like they often offer WhatsApp, email, etc as well. Seems it would be simple to design my code so I can drop in different services (SMS, IFTTT, etc) to test. Or use them all... anyone remember "Woof!" or when Marty McFly got fired in the future?
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Google SMS gateway API and you will find lots.
Basically you open an account, buy credits which give you so many 1000s of SMS messages. Each API call with a key will send SMS messages to any phone number or numbers
Many give a trial with a few SMS messages so you can check latency. Many of the cheap ones in far away lands have unacceptable latency.
I have used it in a number of projects to notify of things changing.
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Hire a millennial to sit at your desk and give you a call when the specific triggers occur. There's someone on here that needs a few extra £ to boost their meagre £100K income - i'm sure she'll be interested (unless you were born before 1964).
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I was doing a bit of web-trawling last night and I actually wonder if using a 3rd-party SMS service might not be as good as anything. Services like this seem extremely simple to use and pretty cheap: http://api.txtlocal.com/docs/sendsms They also let you receive SMS which opens up some interesting ideas.
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Telegram bots. Or signal. I think there are a few implementations that you can readily use but to be frank I have not played with them so not quite sure what to expect.
you can do one for imessages as well I think.
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Originally posted by eek View PostIFTTT will do exactly what you want - had I a similar requirement I would be using MS Flow for the same thing with something like a http trigger.
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IFTTT will do exactly what you want - had I a similar requirement I would be using MS Flow for the same thing with something like a http trigger.
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