I have a Xamarin.Forms application that communicates with an external device which sends string data over bluetooth. When data is received, I would like to trigger something equivalent to Keyboard.SendKeys so that if an Entry is focused, it will send the data from the external device into that Entry. I'm already capturing the data and handling it in the app, but if the user has an Entry focused, it would be nice to send into that as well. Or, is there a way to query for "Give me any Entry which has focus" and I'll just set the text value of it.
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In my application, I'm using the skype web sdk with the conversation control.
I can start and receive chats, but when I try to add audio/video modality, by pressing the corresponding button, the other user wont see the incoming call.
But when I stop the call the user is getting a "missing call" notification.
The other user's audio/video modality gets changed to "Notified", but even a manual accept wont start the call.
Thought, that the CC handles everything itself.
The Plugin is installed.
I have a pool of device tokens (iOS and Android) and in the docs, I find only one parameter sound for both platforms and obviously I have 2 different notification sound, one for Android and one for iOS.
Do I have to split device tokens by device type for sending to 2 separate device types? Or did I just miss something ?
Thanks.
Solution 1
You could name the same both audio files, like 'your_app.mp3'.
Same name, but different music file on each app. This not allow the user choose the notification sound, but at least allow each app to have a different sound.
Solution 2
Migrate to the new Firebase HTTP v1 API which allows you to customize notifications across platforms
Personal experience
Solution proposed by #daniel-raouf to send Data Messages is great; but in my experience, some Data Messages could not be delivered to your users when:
An user has a power save mode on his phone (by default on Huawei, Xiaomi, One Plus...)
When iOS users clear your app from recent apps (multitask).
So, in my opinion, Data Messages are not a reliable solution for notifications.
You had missed something,
A- If you want to allow the user to select his preferred notification sound at any device so
don't send notification
send only data to force the received content to pass by the onReceive event
In on receive add the sound the icon and data you want to the notification builder.
B- If you want the app to use the default sound
so in the notification body set sound:'default' and it would work for all types of devices
I just have a general question. Can you send a url from a button on the band. I have a home automation system that you can trigger events by sending a RESTful url (endpoint) to. Basically I can put the url in any web browser and trigger the event. It would be great if this could be done through the Band. I don't really need a response from the Url, just to send it.
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
Scott
No, the Band communicates only via Bluetooth to (applications on) its paired device. On Windows (Phone), the application must be running, with a connection to the Band, and subscribed to the Tile button pressed event in order to receive such notifications. This generally rules out scenarios that require ad-hoc input from the Band unless you're willing to use voice commands via Cortana.
But i think its possible by creating custom tile and handling custom tile events. Haven't tried it in my project but can see from sdk documentation.
For android you can implement broadcast receiver and listen to tile events. Check: sdk doc
Chap 9, page 51
In short, yes it is possible.
However, the problem would be that the button would be single use to only send that ONE URL command and it actually wouldn't be done via the Band.
You can create custom layouts for your applications with the Microsoft Band SDK which will allow you to create a button. You'll then need to register to the click event from the Band which then would get fired on the device the app is running on. From there, you'd be able to send the URL but it would be sent from the Windows Phone or Windows PC rather than the Band so you'd need to be connected. The documentation covers how you can do this here: http://developer.microsoftband.com/Content/docs/Microsoft%20Band%20SDK.pdf
A downside to doing this with WinRT is that as soon as the app is closed and the connection to the Band is lost, your button click won't have any action. The best way to get around this is to create the connection to the Band in a background task but unfortunately, you can't keep hold of the connection to the Band for an infinite amount of time and you'd have to live with the possibilities that you may have times where it doesn't work. I have a GitHub sample which shows you how to connect to the Band in a background task for an indefinite amount of time.
The Microsoft Band has really been developed for the Health aspect and collecting data rather than interactions with other apps which it does in some way support.
I have a hardphone that register to asterisk 11.8. When someone call this phone, information about user input ivr and user phone number is inside asterisk, is it possible to expose these information to the outside app. For example, I have a webapp, that when the user type in the account number via ivr, the web app, can pull this information back to display the user information. I am a bit new to asterisk and was previously use Freeswitch.
I start reading something about Asterisk AMI, that there are manager event that sending from asterisk to AMI client. So can it be like this. When the phone rang, there will be an event that send to me web app, this event contain information about the phone number of the caller, and what he/she type in for IVR? Can AMI do something like that? I check asterisk AMI event documentation https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/AMI+Event+Documentation, but I dont see any event like "calling"
Please guide me, you can just provide me high level general information and I can start looking further. THank you
Yes. Asterisk does store that kind of information - the incoming number, the duration of the call etc. It is present in the form of a csv file that can be accessed at:
/var/log/asterisk/cdr-*
You can write code to access these logs and get needed information about them.
EDIT to answer comment:
While I am not sure if this information is stored after a call is disconnected, you can write a dialplan to get what you are doing. As soon as a call is received on the extension, the dialplan should:
- Get the incoming call number and send that to a webapp. I think this should be very easy.
I am sending a XML with the "Count" parameter for tile update, and the tile is updating with that value, no problem here.
But I don't know how many pending notifications the user actually has, to increment. I see WhatsApp increments the counter immediately after I got a message. The only way to do this is to store the "unread" count in the server? I wouldn't like to do this because the user can: receive the notifications, disconnect, open the app (that will reset the counter), close, and connect to internet. When it happens, the "unread" count will be incorrect after a new notification.
(I'm using a standard tile for WP 7 compatibility)
Maybe this is a hint from the design gurus -- you might not need to show the user exactly how many unread notifications s/he has. Instead, you could make the push notification simply set a visual flag that there are some unread notifications. When the user opens the app, it displays all the queued notifications and resets the visual flag. Like a knock at the door: once you go to the door, you're going to let in however many dwarves you find waiting there.
Alternatively, you could use raw push notifications sent directly to the app, and let the app locally update the count on the tile.