Division notifier- Get a text when divisions are released
 

Since last year's notifier is not running this year, I decided to make my own.

championship.evanforbes.net

It works for any phone number that can receive texts in the USA or Canada.

I made it rather quickly, so if anything goes wrong or you have any questions just let me know.

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Thank you very much, I signed up and there were no bugs for my Andtoid phone.

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seems to work in Canada! :D

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Excellent, thanks for testing.

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Looks good. Might want to redirect port 80 to port 3000. Simple to do with iptables.

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Thanks. Port 80 is already in use by the guy who owns the server unfortunately. Is there any way around that?

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Sure, with virtual hosts this is not a problem. Is this node.js? You can run alongside nginx or apache by setting up a virtualhost that proxies to node.js. Lots of info on Stack Overflow about this depending on your exact configuration.

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Yes it is node.js. Thanks for the information, I'll look into this more tomorrow if I have time.

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Requiring a team number is sort of weird. My team won't be attending CMP this year (I'll be there volunteering though), so I just put in a bogus team number that will.

What usefulness is having the team number?

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In the text message it will tell you which division that team is in. Whether or not that's useful... I don't know.

Team numbers for teams that aren't registered are still accepted and will get a generic divisions are out message.

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It turns out at my university port 80 doesn't allow outside connections for some reason.

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Fun stats: There are about 280 people signed up to be notified so far from 172 different teams.

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Small update:

With almost 600 people requesting notifications, I was concerned about the amount of time it will take to send all the texts. It takes 1 second per text, which would mean the last people wouldn't be notified until ~10 minutes after I received all the divisions.

I went ahead and added a second phone number so that the notifications can be sent in ~5 minutes. This means you may receive the notification from a different phone number than was used to send your verification code.


Is ~5 minutes fast enough?

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you mean to tell me i have to wait 5 minutes? yeah i guess :rolleyes:

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The High Roller team motto is "It's not enough"... :) But certainly appreciated!