Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Currently, you'll have to make them multiple accounts. Although this sounds like a good feature. I may or may not try to pursue that idea. But for now, go though and create them separate accounts, verify their phone numbers, and add your team.

As a note, you can do this by using the quick register feature. Just make sure to confirm their phone number!

frcmega.com/register/3061




Update: Anyone that had issues with deleting events should no longer have a problem. And if you do - let me know.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Hatboro-Horsham notifications stopped going out after Match 50 because the FMS stopped updating. This is the same issue that happened with Traverse City. I've contacted FIRST and requested details on this issue. Hopefully they'll get back to me.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Could you please add a test button for the win/lose/tie text messages to see if they work?

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

That's the purpose of the Confirm Phone Number feature. I make sure you'll receive the messages by sending you a confirmation code. If you get it, then you'll for sure get the rest of the texts. If you don't get it, then you won't get any of the other texts. If you aren't getting the confirmation code, feel free to email me and I'll help you try to figure it out.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Is there a way to test Twitter functionality?

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

There isn't. But I like that idea. I'll try working up that code this weekend. Something super simple like, "We're using FRC Megaphone to tweet match results"

Ranking texts will be a feature soon also. There'll be an update post when both of these features go live.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

You are awesome!

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

If you think so and you happen to see him at an event you should buy him a diet coke...

Zach puts in a ton of work into this stuff purely for the love the hack. If he makes it to Champs this year dinner is on me.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Will do.

EDIT:There will be a diet coke wanting for you at bedford.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Just a suggestion for a feature: the ability to completely disable text alerts at any time. I'm headed out of the country so I didn't want to get charged out the wazoo for texts. I know you can individually delete notifications for specific events, but that might be tedious for someone who is following multiple teams.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Direct Facebook posting would be a very helpful feature.

We have a larger and more engaged following on Facebook than we do on Twitter. Even though we have Tweets auto-posting to Facebook during competitions, they show up sometimes several hours late, or not at all (I assume Facebook does this on purpose).

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

I wasn't aware of that. I'll look in to doing Facebook integration for next year. Adding it requires a lot of changes to my database, and trying to put that into the already cluttered web interface would be difficult, so I don't want to try to add it between weekends.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

This weekend, I was receiving texts just fine from Megaphone for our team(for TCNJ I forgot to add an event...) but for some reason, despite linking the account(registered with my email address) with our twitter(registered through twitter with a DIFFERENT email address), we didn't have a single tweet sent out this weekend...I have absolutely no idea what could have been done wrong; on the megaphone page it says that it is linked and megaphone has the right permissions in the app listings of our twitter account.

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

Zach,

Just a shout out for a great addition to my FRC toolkit. Got the texts, twitter feed and Facebook link (via Twitter) configured prior to this weekend's regional. Saved me the headache of remembering to update status in two or three different places.

Might seem like a small thing, but when you're at the competition this is really one of the last things you want to do, but it's very important for folks who support a team from home.

Again, thanks from Winnovation - great work!

POLLY

Re: [FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics
 

D: Shoot me an email. It's on the bottom of the Megaphone front page. I'd like to try to track down the issue for this. Tweets were going out for other teams all weekend, so I don't know if it's on my end or not, but I'd like to figure it out for sure.

Thanks Polly for the great feedback! I'm glad you like Megaphone.