The Blue Alliance Text Message Match Results

merybar · February 26, 2009, 5:32pm

Does anyone know if the blue alliance is going to have text message match updates again this year?
Thanks

Greg_Marra · February 26, 2009, 8:38pm

I am waiting to roll it out until after I confirm that the system works again. I haven’t had data to test our realtime match parsing with yet. If you’re adventurous, the signup will be at the same place it was last year.

I will make a “real” post once we’re rolling tomorrow.

rsisk · February 26, 2009, 9:22pm

You can also subscribe to the Regional Twitter Accounts and have Twitter deliver the message to you via text message.

Check http://www.robokong2493.com/twitter_accounts.html for more information.

Another great extension of The Blue Alliance API.

merybar · February 26, 2009, 11:22pm

Where is that at?

Nawaid_Ladak · February 27, 2009, 1:35am

set up an account @ www.twitter.com
go to your profile settings and register your phone
go to a regional account, if im correct Midwest would be @firstil , and New Jersey is @firstnj etc. in other words @first(first letter code for each regional.) so to visit the Midwest page, you would do www.twitter.com/firstil and that should take you stright to the page where you can follow the MidWest Regional
Follow that account and activate device updates
Sit back and enjoy

Elgin_Clock · February 27, 2009, 3:54am

Greg, I’ve just got two things:

Do I have to purge last year’s teams if I don’t want to follow them anymore, or is that automatic since it’s been a year since I’ve used anything. - Basically, is there a way to unsubscribe from a team if I start getting unwanted updates?
I signed up with 1 team who is playing a week one regional this year just now, so I’ll send some updates if there is any problems!

ATannahill · February 27, 2009, 5:49am

This seems to be for the entire regional, is there a way to follow only your team?

Greg_Marra · February 27, 2009, 8:19am

I nuked the database, so no signups from last year or from IRI should have carried over. If testing today is successful, I will announce it all - I just don’t want to pull the curtain off before it works.

merybar · February 27, 2009, 2:30pm

Thanks,
I appreciate it, ill defiantly be looking forward to using the blue alliance again. Not a big fan of twitter, (the volume of texts)
Thanks

Elgin_Clock · February 27, 2009, 2:38pm

The one team I signed up for seems to be working (ie: I am getting the alerts - whether or not I’m getting the correct info is yet to be determined)
I can check that later from the FIRST database for the regional.

ATannahill · February 27, 2009, 2:56pm

I saw the instructions posted earlier for the registration for a full event alerts, how do you register for only one team?

Elgin_Clock · February 27, 2009, 4:24pm

Greg & the rest of TBA are updating the software from what I can tell from his comments, but:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68498&highlight=Blue+Alliance+Text+Message

I signed up for one team, & it’s working fine for me.

Greg_Marra · February 27, 2009, 8:17pm

I am not 100% sure it is working 100% of the time, but it seems to be working ok. If you take the effort to sign up now, consider yourself a “beta tester”. I will launch it officially for Week 2.

ATannahill · February 27, 2009, 8:31pm

I signed up and I am a bit surprised at the lag, but when you are back in the pits, it it better late than never.

bigbeezy · February 27, 2009, 9:03pm

im sure most of you do but just incase, for i’d really hate to see this happen.

make sure you have unlimited text, I’d hate to see someone get a $6,000 bill just from Blue Alliance/Twitter texts.

ATannahill · February 27, 2009, 9:07pm

My suggestion is set it up for your regualr email address, or a new one if you don’t want it in your inbox. Set up auto forward to your phone and if there is a problem turn off the forwarding.

BTW $6,000 would be 40,000 texts at 15 cents each.