Homey’s push notifications has critical, normal and confirmation. So you can send a push notification, critical notification and a yes or no notification. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a notification you could send and get text input or number input back? For example a flow asks how many of that do you want, then you can send 3 back or like what do you want to say? And send a text back to the flow.
Maybe interesting, I made just this with use of the Telegram app:
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The flow sends a predefined question for the alarm clock alarm time setting to my Tgram, and it shows me what input format it expects
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The Tgram app then sends me that question to my phone;
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I responded with the desired time in the format I determined in the flow:
09:00
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The flow responds with a predefined acknowledgement, with the actual received time value, just for clarity (which is optional of course)
The line between [ brackets ] is just the very long flow name; I add this info to each notification and log card
Does this make sense, John William?
Yes, but how do you do the 09:00 part inside of homey? How does homey understand that you want something to happen at 09:00?
That’s what you’d write with flows…
Basic example:
With the neat “Timey” app you can trigger flows with a time value from a variable.
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Ohhh, Thanks!
I added my bot to a group but i can’t make it send anything there? (I mean like announcement channel thing)
Please use the Telegram topic and find instructions there as well (always in post # 1 of most app topics):
Yeah i tried on channel first and couldn’t get it to work, but it worked on group.
