I just wanted to say what an awesome ADD this is to AS!
Great job on the implementation and videos explaining how to use it!
I was able to get this working in short order! Finally I can create a web-sockets implementation!
I was very disappointed with the first implementation of websockets as I could never get it working on my server, which in all honesty is probably an issue with the backend at zebrahost rather than AS but I digress...
So easy to not only get THIS working but to tweak it, I mean really the pointer makes it easy to pass in just about anything and of course then DO anything with what is sent.
So here is how I am using it.
A technician goes to a job and checks in - well we can see in real time WHERE it happened and because we can pass in just about ANYTHING we can then update a table, send an SMS, or an email!
Same tech, then checks out of the location, and we can do the same, maybe even then send the customer a text using twilio to say the job is done - maybe even send them an invoice or a job update!
While I could do most of that already - it is super cool to be able to now build a LIVE dashboard showing it happening in real time and since we can even do some db inserts we can then log it all for later. It is very much like a webhook in a way - and speaking of that Pusher even has webhooks of it's own!
I think 200,000 msgs/day is pretty fair - makes for a no cost startup!
VERY COOL indeed!
If you haven't checked it out yet give it a go!
Great job on the implementation and videos explaining how to use it!
I was able to get this working in short order! Finally I can create a web-sockets implementation!
I was very disappointed with the first implementation of websockets as I could never get it working on my server, which in all honesty is probably an issue with the backend at zebrahost rather than AS but I digress...
So easy to not only get THIS working but to tweak it, I mean really the pointer makes it easy to pass in just about anything and of course then DO anything with what is sent.
So here is how I am using it.
A technician goes to a job and checks in - well we can see in real time WHERE it happened and because we can pass in just about ANYTHING we can then update a table, send an SMS, or an email!
Same tech, then checks out of the location, and we can do the same, maybe even then send the customer a text using twilio to say the job is done - maybe even send them an invoice or a job update!
While I could do most of that already - it is super cool to be able to now build a LIVE dashboard showing it happening in real time and since we can even do some db inserts we can then log it all for later. It is very much like a webhook in a way - and speaking of that Pusher even has webhooks of it's own!
I think 200,000 msgs/day is pretty fair - makes for a no cost startup!
VERY COOL indeed!
If you haven't checked it out yet give it a go!
Comment