I am working on a Flow app lately and I wonder if we have any Microsoft services available to send SMS texts to phone without using connectors like Twilio. I have tried Twillio and it works good. But I would like to know if there are any free/paid services available from Microsoft to send text messages.
Simple answer: no, there is not. You have to use a service like Twilio.
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I created an Azure bot with cognitive services, and enabled the direct speech client and skype channels.
I can talk to the bot using the Direct Speech Client application, but I would like to talk to it from my phone, via Skype. I mean place a call to it not text.
I know MS is deprecating the Skype and all its associated components but they are still available.
When I place a call to the bot i hear a MS Azure message saying "You cannot talk to this bot yet but we are working on it" Is there a way I can get it to work ?
I cannot find the documentation on Github either.
As said in the error message, they are working on it, so currently it is not available
I have to integrate 2 different azure bots into a single azure bot application. So thinking of integrating with the REST api. Will this approach work ?
From this links
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-connector-quickstart?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-connector-api-reference?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
I can get the access token from cloud bot. But there is no example on "sending message from client". It have examples on handling client messages from server as Activity object.
It would be better if any samples on "sending message from client to azure cloud throught REST"
what is different between REST and connectors.?
I believe it will be possible with DirectLine, but wanted to know how to do thorugh REST APIs.
Thanks in Advance !!
I can't tell you whether or not your idea will work for dealing with two separate bots without more information. If you are trying to start conversations with both bots and the sending messages to the different conversations based on some set of criteria than that should work.
The Bot Framework API can essentially split into two sections:
The Connector (primary) API that the bot uses to talk to users and the service.
The DirectLine API that you can use to talk to the bot instead of using one of the built-in connectors like Slack or Teams.
Based on your needs, the DirectLine is indeed what you are looking for. The directline.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations/abc123/activities endpoint will allow a client app to send a message to the connected bot.
Until now I have developed bots using each platform API directly, so that communication takes place between my bot and the platform like this:
My Bot <----> Telegram/Slack servers
I would like to use BotBuilder SDK to simplify bot development and unify communication to multiple Bot platforms (Telegram, Slack, etc.).
However, it looks like using BotBuilder also implies using Microsoft servers as an intermediary relaying all chat messages between each platform and my bot:
My Bot <----> Microsoft servers <----> Telegram/Slack servers
Is it like this? Using BotBuilder SDK messages need to be proxied through Microsoft servers?
(I expected that the BotBuilder SDK library would directly provide the features of adapting message format (between the unified format and each platform/channel format) and communicating with each platform API, but it looks like this is really done by Microsoft servers.)
If this is really the case, which components would need to be reimplemented/overriden to be able to communicate directly with each platform REST API? The Bot Connector service? Is there any example available? Thanks
Is anyone aware about api that can be used to send WhatsApp message using node.
Api like whatsmate have stopped their premium services and only provide trial account.
There is no official whatsapp API, whatever you can find on the internet is "illegal" and whatsapp will ban them eventually. Check this one API who was quite good at the start:
https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
I want to trigger a inbuild application in the mobile on receiving a sms. I have codes to read a sms from a mobile but after reading that sms the mobile must automatically trigger an application.
Is it possible to do that? If yes tell me a good idea to trigger another application on receiving the sms.
There is pretty standard solution for doing this using push registry. Here is the link for it.