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Old 07-22-2017, 02:40 PM
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Default vBulletin Latest Posts on Amazon Alexa!

Create an Alexa skill to enable Alexa to speak vBulletin Latest Posts updates from your forum and reach 8.2 million Echo users in the comfort of their couch or living room without having them to visit your site.

Watch the YouTube demo below for my forum https://vbmods.rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkyI2hBRkA0
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Old 07-24-2017, 01:41 PM
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I made some core PHP hack to existing vB code to allow Alexa to speak the poster's username, post title and the channel where it was posted to.

Previously, Alexa was just speaking the post content only.

Now, it would be like this:

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glennrocksvb started a topic entitled "Hi there!" in "Introductions" channel: Hello everyone!

Here's the updated video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0t0FSJcnBU
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Old 07-26-2017, 07:32 AM
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Good news! Amazon has certified and approved this Alexa skill named "vBulletin Mods That Rock Latest Posts" and it's now available on the Amazon Skill Store.

This means if you have an Amazon Echo device (Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Show), you can get this skill and enable it on your device and hear Alexa speak hourly updates of latest posts from https://vbmods.rocks without visiting the site. Your utterence will be:

Quote:
Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?
or

Quote:
Alexa, what's in the news?
This looks like the first ever vBulletin-powered Alexa skill on the Amazon Skill Store
If you search for "vBulletin" in the Amazon site or in the Alexa app, "vBulletin Mods That Rock Latest Posts" is the only skill in the search results.

Get it now and enjoy!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07454QW2Q...ords=vBulletin
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Question, does this has the hability to filter the forum/subforum you want to choose?

Additionally, how often does this checks the post creation? For instance is instant or does it checks each minute, etc.?
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Yes you can choose selected forum(s) to get the latest posts from and set the topic cache lifetime. You can also configure on Amazon side to check latest posts hourly or daily.
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