Android Question WhatsAPP - not sending text but asking to push a button

DonManfred

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• Feb 28, 2018

• #2

This is by design. Whatsapp did NOT provide an Api for this. The User MUST be involved to prevent someone being a BOT.

 

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IamTrying

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• Feb 28, 2018

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Oh no. Thats disaster in my case.
My app has to run in an unhuman existing datacenter rack rooms (per rack),
to send notification via WhatsAPP for emergency: site down, booting, server mulfuntion etc.

I cant put human in datacenter rack-rooms. Is there any other notification built-in apps (from B4A or others) which can be used just like WhatsAPP but completely automated?

 

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DonManfred

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IamTrying said:

My app has to run in a unhuman existing datacenter rack rooms (per rack),

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Use Firebase Messaging to inform your app about something.

 

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IamTrying

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• Feb 28, 2018

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Skype has URL-Scheme.

B4X:

- (IBAction)skypeMe:(id)sender
{
  BOOL installed = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"skype:"]];
  if(installed)
  {
   [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"skype:echo123?call"]];
  }
  else
  {
   [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://itunes.com/apps/skype/skype"]];
  }
}

Can we from B4A execute/notify via Skype on iOS, Android ? (few years ago i did cant remember exactly). I do not want to put my own app to random end users because of GDPR and other terms and conditions.

I am trying to keep it simple and cheap.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/skypeuris/skypeuritutorial_iosapps

https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/dn745885(v=office.15).aspx

 

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DonManfred

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IamTrying said:

Skype has URL-Scheme.

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And now????? Whatsapp is NOT Skype!!!
You are free to use Skype if you want. I can´t help on this; never tried to use such thing with Skype on Android.

 

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IamTrying

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• Feb 28, 2018

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OK - I hate WhatsAPP let me down on my project.
I will use Skype (i am mostly robot apps implementer), it has what i needed.

thanks anyway!!

 

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DonManfred

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• Feb 28, 2018

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Away from that; You should create a NEW Thread if you want to work with Skype now! Skype and all Documentation about how it works with Skype is not relevant to this thread.

 

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BillMeyer

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• Feb 28, 2018

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I agree with @DonManfred - provided you get the subscription topics correct - it works like a dream

OR

Given that you have access to racks and servers you could possibly also take a look at MQTT by installing the Mosquitto Broker (now called Server) and use a lightweight B4J Non-Gui server to handle your messaging centre with a Chat Type module in your app that is invoked by running a service on the respective device.

 

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IamTrying

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• Feb 28, 2018

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I did that but iOS release refused so i drop all those projects and decided to use third party apps WhatsAPP. But they want human operator and refuse the way i needed. So its a fail approach.

I have my push-server's running on CentOS which works with Android but failed to release on iOS so i drop that project and decided to not waste time on that it was done project for me.

Thanks i have figured out how i will hack this i have few alternatives except WhatsAPP.

- Asterisk (Voice call from server, SMS)
- Texting using Xmpp protocol from server
- Fallback calls, using Skype

 

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