I have a smart speaker with buit-in Google Assistant which I want to automatically make announcements at specific times. The times are determined by a program I wrote running in the cloud which can send HTTP POST requests at those times (e.g. to trigger a Telegram bot or anything else with a usable API).
Is there a way to send POST requests directly to my smart speaker with a message to announce? Or would I need some intermediary app/service to integrate with Google Assistant?
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I can use FCM console to send messages to all users or certain users at a certain time.
Now I want the app send a message to specified users when their in-game energy is full. How to realize it with FCM? And can I know the messages' sends, opens, conversions?
Sending a message to a user can only be done from a trusted environment, such as the Firebase console, or a place where you can trust that the code running is yours (such as your development machine, a server that you control, or something like Cloud Functions/Cloud Run).
For examples of how to send a message by calling FCM's API, see the documentation on building send requests, and this sample use-case of notifying the user when something interesting happens using Cloud Functions.
I am trying to get a list of music services to which the Sonos household has a subscription. Is it possible to obtain such information from HTTP API or from any other source? If yes, then under what conditions?
I have analyzed the traffic between the Sonos Connect and Windows Sonos Controller. I discover, that information about music services is transmitted from Connect to Controller inside the ThirdPartyMediaServersX tag of the NOTIFY HTTP request. But this content is encoded in the base64-like cipher.
<e:propertyset xmlns:e="urn:schemas-upnp-org:event-1-0">
<e:property>
<ThirdPartyMediaServersX>
2:oZoYgaU5pqEq6IauQ1hYVS0oCUJnqbCkJL1vXP/DoeijejEwUBQT8UG0CksUG9VcarvLhCyElhKTUjfhQt0SAcV2oBOyLJ5BCmjd7TcJfPrVuTGHczd5/AS2tgj85n0U9yU9EwwHROFb5uV09syZNLVaZuJnENCWRKatIq1SNMm1SE4tHneLG6ULQoDOR50nf7TwyRQbkit8Bvy+kZyNPlrgBZFGmizoRmYjW8COFvHJpZhREEGruhQ2J6A8gnQOWyFzstAyHNZeLqp2xcNGnts6f2DQ56r/ducstbibFH0SZOZC0XM/BB4DvOT8UalezPL0R9/s8Jibm5T6mS1FWk14GWg2RMmRBIVE5G/gG2c=
</ThirdPartyMediaServersX>
</e:property>
</e:propertyset>
I expect to obtain list of music services, but the actual list were hidden.
As you figured out, Sonos disabled this functionality some time ago.
I've spend a lot of time figuring out how it works, and I now have a "work-a-round". External music services describes what to do.
And sonos-ts has support for external music services. If you read my first link and check the code in this library you should probably be able to figure out how to do that in your programming language.
I know this is no access to the list that is kept by Sonos, but this work-a-round also saves the tokens on the device for every client application to use.
Recently I've found someone who build an music service emulator. So that are both sides of external music services.
This is not supported by the Sonos API.
My app uses Google API and it worked well for a long time but recently Google blocked the IP address of my server for about an hour and every response to the API was as follows: Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot... - they attached CAPTCHA form field as html.
My app is also an API so CAPTCHA can not be done because it is in json format (HTML in json cannot be rendered).
Only app users sends requests so I have a little control over it. Of course, I limit the number of requests per user, but it was not the case. Limits at google console are also fine.
I wonder how can I prevent this happening in the future? Is there any way I can ask them directly? Have you experienced this?
A web service that contains all the methods for processing data is stored by Azure. In this case, only my telegram can process this data. Other applications are not allowed. But there is a possibility of expanding the service.
How do I know that the service is used by my telegram bot?
How to authenticate the application.
Well, I tried to use OAuth2.0, but i think it is not correct, because user is already authentificated with telegram, when he use telegram bot. My idea was to send a link to google auththentification in the beginning of bot job. By th way, ok, we know user`s data. May be I can check: Id, login etc. But some hacker can substitute this id
How can I make sure that Webhook requests are coming from Telegram? If
you‘d like to make sure that the Webhook request comes from Telegram,
we recommend using a secret path in the URL you give us, e.g.
www.example.com/your_token. Since nobody else knows your bot’s token,
you can be pretty sure it's us.
Telegram Bot FAQ
Scenario: Spotify user on the native desktop application is adding and removing songs from the currently playing playlist.
I'm curious if it's possible for me to detect when any addition/removal happens? Basically need a trigger to tell me the playlist has changed without having to continuously poll Spotify's API to see if anything changed. Looking for a solution that could be used either via the Spotify API or something hack-ish using spotilocal or listening on Spotify's 4070 port.
Looking for a solution that could be used either via the Spotify API
or something hack-ish using spotilocal or listening on Spotify's 4070
port.
I wouldn't recommend this approach since the mentioned APIs may change without notice. It's not publicly supported so there's no commitment from Spotify to avoid breaking changes. It also requires the user to have the Spotify desktop application installed.
As you've noticed, since there's currently no way to subscribe to changes in a playlist, e.g. by a Websocket or HTTP PubSub interface like PubSubHubbub, your application would be forced to poll for changes. If you go down this path, I strongly recommend that you make use of the ETags and snapshot_id provided in the Playlist response.
Declaring how ETags are implemented in the Web API deserves a longer response and should be on the developer site. There's however a useful Working With Playlists guide on there that explains snapshots and some other things related to playlists.
It's also worth mentioning that all applications are rate limited, so I urge anyone polling to be aware of this and poll less rather than more. Obviously only poll when the application is actively used by the user, and only poll the playlist if it's actively viewed. You know you're being rate limited if you retrieve a 429 Too Many Requests response.