[Megaphone] Automated Texts/Twitter/Facebook for Teams (2014)

[joelg236]

For the "For Teams" page, I'd like to set it up for our public facebook page. The way it authenticates with facebook right now only allows personal accounts, which isn't too useful for me.

Any way you could implement that functionality?

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by joelg236

For the "For Teams" page, I'd like to set it up for our public facebook page. The way it authenticates with facebook right now only allows personal accounts, which isn't too useful for me.

Any way you could implement that functionality?

For sure. I'll work on it for Week 2. Getting pages people are a part of isn't as easy as getting their personal profile, so it wasn't an initial feature.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by Zach O

For sure. I'll work on it for Week 2. Getting pages people are a part of isn't as easy as getting their personal profile, so it wasn't an initial feature.

Yeah I assumed such, no big deal - we don't play until week 3

[Libby K]

So glad Megaphone is back. This was super helpful last season, as a distance mentor (couldn't be at all events) and as someone who's in nineteen billion places at once at CMP. I never missed one of my teams' matches, and it's all because of the notifications.

I'm in the process of setting up my texts and @FRC1923's posts as well. Thank you, Zach, for all you do! Will definitely be implementing Cheers as well - whatever we can do to support Megaphone and keep it around!

Originally Posted by joelg236

For the "For Teams" page, I'd like to set it up for our public facebook page. The way it authenticates with facebook right now only allows personal accounts, which isn't too useful for me.

Any way you could implement that functionality?

I know Zach said he's working on it, but you can also link your FB page and twitter account to post the same thing - so you could have it post to a team twitter and then automatically post that tweet as an FB page status.

[Navid Shafa]

Can't thank you enough for another year of Mega!

I don't seem to be getting all the updates though. It very well may be my carrier, or perhaps the fact that I'm requesting updates for 21 teams this week.

*For example, 118 is one of the teams I'm signed up for. I just got a score from the last match, but I didn't get a notification before the match started that they were up soon. However, I just got a notification that 148 is up soon.*

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Any ideas?

[StAxis]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Can't thank you enough for another year of Mega!

I don't seem to be getting all the updates though. It very well may be my carrier, or perhaps the fact that I'm requesting updates for 21 teams this week.

*For example, 118 is one of the teams I'm signed up for. I just got a score from the last match, but I didn't get a notification before the match started that they were up soon. However, I just got a notification that 148 is up soon.*

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Any ideas?

I too am having this issue, but it very well could be that I am also receiving updates on a lot of teams and just not all of the pre match alerts are going through.

[Navid Shafa]

Not getting any texts for GTR.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

*For example, 118 is one of the teams I'm signed up for. I just got a score from the last match, but I didn't get a notification before the match started that they were up soon. However, I just got a notification that 148 is up soon.*

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Any ideas?

Hm. I'll take a look. My first inclination is to think FRCFMS is being spotty. That seems like the most likely cause. Can you PM me with the match number(s) in question so I can take a look?

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Not getting any texts for GTR.

This one doesn't appear to be on my end! FRCFMS tweeted some practice matches for GTRW, but none of the qualification matches https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FRCO...ash&f=realtime. Feel free to email goodfrcquestion@usfirst.org for support for this one

[fovea1959]

FRMFMS is being spotty. Bunch of missing elimination matches from Twitter feed.

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by fovea1959

FRMFMS is being spotty. Bunch of missing elimination matches from Twitter feed.

Unfortunately, that's nothing new.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Hm. I'll take a look. My first inclination is to think FRCFMS is being spotty. That seems like the most likely cause. Can you PM me with the match number(s) in question so I can take a look?

Sorry, not sure of the matches in question. FMS was certainly spotty for MAR and GTR.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by joelg236

For the "For Teams" page, I'd like to set it up for our public facebook page. The way it authenticates with facebook right now only allows personal accounts, which isn't too useful for me.

Any way you could implement that functionality?

Done! Megaphone now has Facebook page support. Connect your Facebook account in the Settings panel to get started.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Done! Megaphone now has Facebook page support. Connect your Facebook account in the Settings panel to get started.

Cool, that'll be great for us!

[joelg236]

It isn't appearing to work, am I doing something wrong?

[Navid Shafa]

My Mega updates have been coming from two different sources this morning. At first I thought one number might be sending prior notifications and the other post-match scores, but I'm not seeing any trends. It appears to be random...

In case this helps, the numbers I'm receiving texts from:

Spoiler for Number 1:

1-(415)429-7332

Spoiler for Number 2:

1-(269)849-9967