Sending FT Optix Messages to WhatsApp

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Description
Sending WhatsApp Messages from FactoryTalk Optix. Take advantage of your new Optix Edge and get alarms directly from your machine or process in your mobile phone. This is done with developers API and sending an http request from FT Optix. Integrated ChatGPT in Visual Studio Code has helped a lot.

Download the sample code:
https://github.com/xavierflorensa/FactoryTalk_Optix_to_Whatsup

Contributed by Xavier Florensa – YouTube – LinkedIn – GitHub

Transcript
(00:01) Hi everybody. In this video, I will show you how to send WhatsApp messages from Optics. Here we do with Optics Edge. So, first of all, have to have um Facebook develop account to be able to send messages. I show you how to do this. And if I show you my here at the right my mobile phone screen can send a message test message.
(00:40) Here we have it. Then you have to adapt this code the token on your optics application. Let’s go to the optics application. create a runtime logic and as soon as I start the application you will see the message arriving. So I start now. Yeah, this is the new message. I can close and it’s time. I start the application.
(01:27) You can see message arriving. like this way. So let’s see the code how this is done. You have to use this system HTTP libraries and then use the same HTTP request as you do in your developers Facebook web application. And well, this is how it works. I hope you enjoy. Let’s try it again. Let me make this big. Here is my mobile phone. And when I
(02:35) click start optics, you will see here the message this one. Okay. So, thank you very much. I hope you enjoy it.

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