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#HowTo-Connect ElGato Stream Deck to non supported IoT devices using IFTTT 😺😹😺
Hi ! I am deploying several new IoT devices to my house and office, and … hey I want to control them using my Stream Deck from Elgato. Sadly, most of my devices does not have an ElGato extension to work with Stream Deck, however, there is a cool solution for this. It involves the… — read more
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#AI Generated – Unlock the Power of Low Code No Code Platforms. Unlock Your Possibilities!
Disclaimer: I didn’t write this. I’m testing some amazing AI platforms, and today I asked Writesonic (@writesonic), to write an article about Low Code – No Code and Microsoft Power Platform. The Output is amazing, very acurate, and for testing purposes I haven’t change a line of the generated text. Image Source: FreeImages The… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 6/N
Hi ! Now that we have all the necessary steps to play with a Trivia question using Power Automate and Microsoft Teams, I think it will be nice to have an online event to build this all together. That’s will I’ll host an event, on Dec 15th to explain and show the step-by-step for this.… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 5/N
Hi ! Now that we have the core steps to request a Trivia question from the API, send the question to a user and process the user’s answers, let’s work on the trigger. My final idea is to use a trigger from Teams, then validate that the message body contains the words ‘start trivia’ and,… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 4/N
Hi ! In previous posts we request a Trivia quesion using the Open Trivia Database API, and sent the question as a message using Teams Flow Bot. Context The process of the quesion is fine, however, the way that we process the answers has a flaw. Let’s take a look at steps in the current… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 3/N
Hi ! In previous posts we request a Trivia quesion using the Open Trivia Database API, and sent a mesage to teams so an user can read the question and pick an answer. In today’s post, les process the user’ answer. The flow is simple: Once the flow is running, we can see in the… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 2/N
Hi ! Let´s analyze the response from the API query for a single question [https://www.otriviata.com/api.php?amount=1]. We have a collection of results (questions) with only one result. Power Automate Flow Steps In order to get this, let’s use a HTTP step. Our next is to use a [Parse JSON] step to work with the data from… — read more
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#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 1/N
Hi ! A couple of days ago, I found a super cool connector in the Power Platform that allows us to get trivia questions from the Open Trivia Database. I started to play around with the API, and hey, I created a bot that ask questions and present the options for the answers. Here is… — read more
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#Coding4Fun – Power Automate and Cat as a Service 😸
Hi ! You probably didn’t request this, but hey, it’s Friday and it’s time to have some fun. Yesterday, thanks to Rishab, I learned about Cat as a Service (cataas). Yes, because we can have ANYTHING as a Service 😸. I was thinking about some cool and advanced scenarios to use this, then I realized… — read more
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#Azure – Formatting Date Time 📅 in Logic Apps or Power Automate ✅
Hi ! Everytime I need to format a date in a LogicApp or in Power Automate I start from scratch; so it’s time to write this down. My most common scenario is to create a string, from the current date / time, with the following format: [Year][Month][Date][Hour][Minute][Second] Translated to date format will be formatDateTime(utcNow(), ‘yyyyMMddHHmmss’)… — read more
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#MSIgnite – Power Automate with AI powered copilot capabilities
Hi ! During this Microsoft Ignite 2022, we had a lot of annoucements about super cool features. As an (long-time) AI and (newly) Low Code – No Code enthusiast, this one goes directly to my top 3: How cool is this? For me, 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ And if you are wondering how this works, is… — read more
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#Tools – TempMail 📨, the best tool to get a temporary email
Hi ! I’ll write and share about TEMPMAIL, because IMHO, is the most easy temp mail service. Just navigate to Temp Mail – Disposable Temporary Email (temp-mail.org) and we can see a simple page with our temp mail, up and running. Let’s send an email and … magic here it is ! You can browse… — read more
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#PowerPoint – Add Stock Videos to create amazing slides 🎥
Hi ! I’ve been doing this for a while, and hey, a couple of days ago someone ask how to create a cool slide like this. Super easy. Open the menu [Insert / Video / from Stock]. Then select a video. Bonus here to filter and look for a video that can be used as… — read more
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[#TOOL] Random users generator 🫂(lorem ipsum for users!)
Hi friends! I wrote this almost 10 years ago, and it’s still a super usefull resource! As nearly all developers, probably at some point you will find the need to create a couple of test for any application users. After the classic John and Mary Doe, sure you do like me and starting to use… — read more
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#PowerToys – The best Text Extractor utility for #Windows11
Hi ! I’m a big fan of Microsoft PowerToys. The new Text Extractor feature, is one of the most useful features ever ! 😀 Let’s take a simple look about how this works. Just capture of a region of the screen, and the text extractor will extract the text from the image and copy the… — read more
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#Tip – How to create a 30 days trial account to learn about #PowerPlatform
Hi ! The Power Platform Bootcamp is on, and one of the most popular questions is: How to create a trial account to test and learn ? The answer is easy in 2 steps. 2 Steps to create a Trial Account 1st step. Sign up for a Microsoft 365 developer tenant: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program Once you created… — read more
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#RaspberryPi – Install raspi-config on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Hi ! This is my current Ubuntu version running on a Raspberry Pi 4. raspi-config is a powerful tool to manage the device settings for the Raspberry Pi. It’s included in Raspberry Pi OS, but not in the Ubuntu distro. So, if yu want to use raspi-config, follow these steps Of course, we start with… — read more
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#Tip – The best way to start with Azure ☁️ for FREE
Hi ! This is a question that I see coming online again and again. So, here is the best way to help you start your cloud path with Azure for free https://www.azure.com/free Simple to remember: azure.com/free 😀 And here is what you got: Get USD200* credit to use in 30 days. (Depending on the country… — read more
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#AzureIoT – Using a Raspberry Pi @Seeedstudio Grove Sensors 👀 in an ☁ Azure IoT Edge Module
Hi ! Last week during my sessions for #JulyOT, I had several questions about how to use SeeedStudio Grove sensors and actuators in custom Azure IoT Edge modules. I’m updating my previous series of posts to how how to access to specifics sensors connected to the device and send telemetry, and more. I’m missing the… — read more
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#RaspberryPi – Install #AzureIoT, a couple of tips to make it work
Hi ! It’s #JulyOT time, and I need to update this post. A lot of amazing IoT content here: https://julyot.dev/ And let’s go with the updated version. The base steps for this posts are described in the official page [Install or uninstall Azure IoT Edge for Linux] (see references). In the official documentation, you can… — read more
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