How can my company (3-4 people) be notified that we have a new text within Twilio via our phones when we are out of the office?
Use the Twilio Programmable SMS product to notify one or more phones.
https://www.twilio.com/sms
You can either use a Webhook pointing to your own backend setup or use their Functions console.
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I'm using Twilio Conversations for a chat service in my project. Currently, we have only normal 1-to-1 chat which is handled using frontend SDKs. It's working properly. My new requirement is something like WhatsApp broadcast: the sender can send messages to multiple participants, but on the receiver's side, it should be a normal chat message. Is it possible to implement using Twilio? How can I implement this?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can definitely do this with Twilio Conversations! Here's a way to do it using the Twilio CodeExchange.
Here's the JS version of that CodeExchange app on GitHub as well.
Edit: A Messaging PM says that Conversations is not the right product for notifications/bulk messaging. They're positioning Conversations and its features for bi-directional/conversational messaging and Messaging for transactional messaging (notifications, bulk messaging, verifications, etc.)
What they've seen people do in the past:
get list of numbers, iterate through them with Messaging API to send out bulk marketing message
set up the 'from' number (twilio sender) with Conversations autocreation, so that if someone replies it creates a Conversation
Handle the interactive dialogue with the person who wrote back using Conversations
Let me know if this helps at all!
Hi I've integrated Twilio with Bitrix and am able to send outgoing sms that do reach the receiving number, but the incoming reply texts do not appear on the contact profile or generate notifications. To summarize, I need help making incoming sms appear in contact profiles and generate notifications for all/most employees.
I heard one method was to use Bitrix24 webhook for authorization and API REST for data. If this method works then I need a step-by-step on how to do it.
I have limited coding experience.
I've tried generating a Bitrix webhook and setting that as the incoming URL for the text messages in Twilio but the replies still did not appear.
Thanks.
We have an app built with Twilio Chat for iOS and everything is working very well. However, we now have a requirement to invite the other chat participant to join a video room, and we would like to send the invite signal through the Twilio Chat channel that is already established (similar in functionality to the Typing signal.)
I know Push Notifications are supported by Twilio Chat, but that seems like overkill for this use case, where a simple signal is all that's needed.
What is the easiest way to send a very small amount of non-message data between Twilio Chat channel participants?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
When you send a message with Twilio Chat you can also set an Attributes field which can contain JSON. You can then use this to signal that the message is not for printing on the page, but a service message or invite. You will then need to updated your UI to read the attributes of a message and decide whether to display it or use it to create the Video chat.
Let me know if that helps at all.
I want to develop sip voip application. I want to communicate between two users of sip voip server but not communication between our phone contact users. I have seen many example like siphon, linphone, idoubs but it is not direct communication between logged users of sip voip.
I don't want to dial and sms to our phone contact users. I want to only communication between sip user to user.
so, please give any suggestion or source code which is apply in my app.
Thank You...
Yes, you can create button on your softphone which will call pre-defined number.
You also can create users list and call from that list.
Or you can get any softphone with sip&jabber support and use that.
I've spent days now searching for a way to route calls from an iOS application through a voip server to mobile number or fixed landline number (or send an SMS)... Essentially like voIP-GSM
I want to essentially have a similar system set up to Skype but with out the other user having the app, just directly call someone's phone using your data/wifi rather than your limited voice minutes or numbers if SMS.
One company who I know of that has worked out how to do this is: http://callsfreecalls.com/
I don't just want app-app communication like from twilio or rebtel!!
1) Would Asterisk or PJSIP help me in any way?
2) Would there be anyway I could do this all for free?
3) Will I have to create my own VoIP network or SIP server??
4) Will I be able to accomplish all this and put it into an iOS app?
Any ideas or help would be much appreciated. Thank you
Twilio evangelist here.
With Twilio Client you can make a VoIP connection from a mobile app into Twilio, then route that to any other number (mobile or landline). You are not restricted to app-to-app only calls.
When you create a Capability Token for Twilio Client, one of the parameters you can pass it is a TwiML Application SID. That TwiML Application maps to a URL that you can use to return TwiML instructions that Twilio will execute when a user initiates an outbound call from your iOS app. In those instructions, you can use the <Dial> verb to tell Twilio to dial a regular phone number, which we will bridge to the Twilio Client connection.
Hope that helps.