#commands on elggVoices

Marcus Povey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:55:08 +0000

Building on the @ commands I talked about in a previous posting, I would like to introduce elggVoices #commands!

These commands offer a plugable framework for third parties to add channel specific information oriented commands.

To see this in action, text or post one of the following to a channel (assumes you have validated either a phone number or an email address previously).

#weather – Receive the weather forecast for the location.
#stock – Receive a stock quote.

I have found #weather very useful. Contact Curverider directly if you want to talk about adding your own commands!

@commands on elggVoices

Marcus Povey — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:19:57 +0000

Some of you who have been using elggVoices recently, may have noticed some rather odd looking shouts appearing in the channels.

Shouts beginning with “@” can be used to execute commands in a channel – especially useful when used remotely via SMS.

I thought it might be useful to give you a quick run down of the commands currently available. I say “currently”, since we are adding to this all the time.

SMS and Website

@status message: Updates your status on a channel.
@sleep on|off: Set your sleep status on and off, when @sleep is on you won’t receive SMS messages.
@location city: Updates your location.
@country country: Updates your country.

SMS only

@signup desired_username your_email: Send this to a channel’s SMS number and you will create a elggVoices account and automatically be signed up to the channel. Your password will be emailed to your email address.
@join: Send this to a channel’s SMS number will join the channel.

Just a few commands for now, but there will be more to come.

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#commands on elggVoices

@commands on elggVoices