Sinch, presence info - sinch

Is there a way to get presence info of each sinch user (sinch sdk, user online/offline)?
for example, I would not want to make a voip call to somebody who is not online currently,
cause it takes too much time for Sinch to find out whether the call can be made or not.

Currently, it is not possible to query for a user's capabilities before placing a call. Instead, an error specifying the user has no call capability will be returned when calling that particular user.

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Microsoft teams getting incoming call number

WE have a very simple use case where when a user is being called in the teams all we need is the number of the caller. The idea for us is to pass that number to our backend system and pop relevant information if it exists. so just need a way to read the number of the person calling.
i have looked at call records API but they will give info of already happened calls plus seems there is no event to subscribe when that happens.
is it supported?
As of(2/3/2021) we don't have this feature available. If you want this feature to be in future releases please raise a uservoice here

Disallow user to make a call when there are no more credits: Sinch Javascript SDK

My application allows unlimited instant messages for free, but takes credits for calls. I want to be able to disallow user to make a call when he does not have any more credits. How in a ideal scenario is this managed using javascript SDK?
I am coming from a standpoint, that although I am able to control this behavior through some validations in code itself, but what happens when the user is a hacker? He can go to console and call javascript methods of its own such as removeListeners and then callClient.callUser(userId). How do you protect sinchClient in such case? Thanks.
Note: I am open to provide more information if the question is not clear.
Sinch exposes a REST based callback mechanism to control your call flow. You can set a callback URL in the Sinch Portal under Applications >> Voice and Video settings. Each call will then trigger a Incoming Call Event (documented here: https://www.sinch.com/docs/voice/rest/#callbackapi) and you can control whether or not to connect this call via the callback response.

Slack logon trigger

I want to create something in Slack that sends a message (starting by calling someone with '#') to a channel when specific users login. I've checked ifttt and zapier. I also checked the slack api to create something myself, but I couldn't really find anything usefull.
Anyone has any ideas?
Slack does not track user login or logoff in a traditional sense. Instead, users are always always "logged in" and available to receive messages once they have joined a team / channel.
There also is the concept of "presence", which is related, but not the same thing. User presence can change multiple times during a few minutes, e.g. if the user is on a mobile. I am guessing you would not want to send the user your message that often.
Still you can poll the presence information of a user with the API users.getPresence , which could be used to implement a script that polls this information on a regular basis and send your message. You also want to filter out presence changes below a certain duration threshold.
Keep in mind though that the rate limit for API methods is 1 per second. So depending on how many users you have in your workspace there will be a significant delay between the user becoming "present" and your script being able to send the message.
There is a workaround for that to have a google sheet as a database for the users and you can trigger by day once and timestamp it.
So the best trigger is a private message or public and you can use filter when mentioning or signin or signout it depends on the trigger word then you pass the filter since zapier won't count your zaps if you used fiter as a second step.

Glympse API event handling

I am trying to launch glympse app by using an intent and receiving the information through broadcast. Is there any way that I will be notified about the events occurring like ticket removed, expired, updated etc?
There sure is.
We created a library project to make this easier for you. It can be found here: https://github.com/Glympse/glympse-app-sdk/tree/master/Android/GlympseIntentsLib
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Tutorial: https://developer.glympse.com/Content/client/app/guides/Glympse_Intents_Tutorial.html
Reference Docs: https://developer.glympse.com/Content/client/app/guides/Glympse_Intents_Reference.html
Specifically, check out the method CreateGlympseParams.setCallbackAction(String). This will allow you to set an action which will be used to broadcast a message back to your app.
Another option is to use CreateGlympseParams.setEventsListener(EventsListener). With this method, you can supply an object that implements GlympseApp.EventsListener. Using this method, our library handles the broadcast under the covers and your object's methods will be invoked as the event occur.

Problem while Making a Call and SMS in same Process on Windows Phone 7

I am developing a application for Windows Phone 7 in which on a button click I need to first send some text messages and then make a call. But as both process are user dependent so I am not getting how should I make it such a way that unless user first finishes the sending messages my app should not initiate call. Because unless I do so it will give thread abort exception.
Thanks;
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With the current SDK there is no way to know if the SMS was actually sent. It could also have been changed by the user before being sent!
Lots of people have asked for this functionality (or similar but for other tasks). Let's hope it comes in a future update.
I believe you can't do it in parallel, because WP7 isn't really multitask.
Do you really need to do it in parallel?
Search for the events deactivated and activated. They are in App.cs.
After you make a call, and back to the program, the activated event will detect it, so you can add code there to send SMS.
Done in reverse way. First make a call and then when user comes back after tombstoning send an Email...but flag manipulation need to be saved in isolated storage.

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