[FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics

[JVN]

Zach,
This is the coolest $*&@&$ thing ever. I'm always trying to keep tabs on my friends and how they're doing. I'm sick of refreshing the FRC event pages.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

-John

PS - I feel like you could get some fun data about who is following who, and which teams are most followed, and some such...

PPS - I bet Zondag could somehow use that data to prove Michigan is awesome.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I know Megaphone is meant for phones, but I check my email more than anything. Would it be a possibility to send updates to email addresses?

I'm guessing he's already using the email gateways for SMS...so probably won't be too tricky

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by JVN

Zach,This is the coolest $*&@&$ thing ever.

...

PS - I feel like you could get some fun data about who is following who, and which teams are most followed, and some such...

Thanks JVN! I plan on putting together a blog post with cool data like that once the season is over.

Originally Posted by dcarr

I'm guessing he's already using the email gateways for SMS...so probably won't be too tricky

Correct. I was using Google Voice but I hit my API limit wayyyy too quickly. There's several texting services that will let you send texts for $0.01 a piece, but that adds up really quickly. So to keep it free I'm using email to send text messages.

Like I said, I should be able to set up email notifications for Week 2. But I'm volunteering this weekend at Kettering, so I couldn't possibly promise it'd get done before matches on Friday.

[PayneTrain]

The Mech Techs seem to be all 'botted up on this whole Match Results-->@FRCMega-->@FRC422-->facebook.com/frc422 integration craze.

Now it's tome for hashtags on Chief Delphi

#omgrobots
#omgtechnology

[lenny8]

This is so awesome! i'm all signed up!

[MattC9]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Quick Sign Up
Give friends or family a quick and easy link to sign up to get only one team's notifications. Just register, confirm your phone number, and you're done. Quick register using the URL scheme http://www.frcmega.com/register/teamNumber

Haha this directs you updates to 2337, sneaky.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by MattC9

Haha this directs you updates to 2337, sneaky.

You got me!

[Kusha]

Best thing ever. This will make our lives much easier at competition. Thank you!

[Greg Marra]

Super cool. Is there a way we could incorporate this into The Blue Alliance? Do you have a deeplink to sign up for Team XYZ? Email me if you want to explore this more

[DanielCH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I know Megaphone is meant for phones, but I check my email more than anything. Would it be a possibility to send updates to email addresses?

This may be a suitable workaround.

https://www.feedmyinbox.com/listings...in-your-email/

[BenB]

Any chance you could add notifications when a team you are following is about to play, so you know when to take a break from whatever your doing and watch the webcast? I would think the easiest way to do this would be to send the notification when the scores for X number of matches ahead gets posted, that way it automatically adjusts for delays at the event.

[runneals]

WOW! I LOVE IT! I'm surprised no one else thought of doing anything like this before! Where are you pulling the feed for scores from? The FMS Twitter account? Have you tested it out to see how long it takes after scores are "released" until your system has it?

Thanks again for making this AWESOME application! I plan on linking it with our twitter account, which is linked with our facebook page

[synth3tk]

Nice site so far! I don't see Google Voice in the list (and I'm probably in the minority there). Any way you can support it?

Also, it would be nice to have the team name listed somewhere on the deeplinked registration pages. I don't know what the state of the TBA API is, but I'm sure Greg would be willing to work with you to make that happen.

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Super cool. Is there a way we could incorporate this into The Blue Alliance? Do you have a deeplink to sign up for Team XYZ? Email me if you want to explore this more

You just add the team number after /register/. For example, http://www.frcmega.com/register/48.

[BJC]

I found a little error:

If you try to set up an account in internet explorer the sign-up boxes start blank (as in they don't say "name" "Password" "Password confirm" ect.) so you have no idea where to put what information. It works perfectly on chrome though.

Other than that I'm already following so many teams it's not even funny. Color me a fan!

Thank for creating this!
Regards, Bryan

[AlecMataloni]

Subscribed last night. This is a REALLY awesome tool. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to make this!