Rocket Chat Flash Briefing

Flash Briefing Skill - Powered By Rocket.Chat

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Let's Get Started

Deploy your Flash briefing skill in minutes using Rocket chat and broadcast messages on both channel and skill in realtime.

Repository Contents

• lambdaFunc.zip - Deploy file for Lambda Functions consists of backend code and node modules.
• /src - Back-End Logic for the Alexa Skill hosted on AWS Lambda.

Setup

Pre-requisites

• Node.js (> v8.10)
• Register for an AWS Account
• Register for an Amazon Developer Account
• Rocket Chat Server updated to Release 1.2.0-rc.0 or later.

Enabling Anonymous Read

• Go to Server -> Three Dot Menu -> Administration -> Accounts , and Set Allow Anonymous Read to True.

Note: Requires Admin Access.

Getting Repository Contents

• Clone The Repository,

  git clone https://github.com/PrajvalRaval/rocket-chat-flash-briefing.git

Creating Broadcast Channel

• On Server Homepage click on Create New -> Channel

• Set Private Channel -> Public Channel and Enable Broadcast Channel.

• Then give your Channel Name, and click on Create.

Creating Lambda Fucntion

• Go To Lambda Management Console

• Click on Create Function

• Choose Author From Scratch and fill in your Function name.

• Make Sure Your Runtime is > v8.10 and click on Create Function.

• Now in Function code, choose Upload A .zip file and upload lambdaFunc.zip file and click Save.

• Create Two Environment Variables and hit Save

  1. SERVER_URL https://yourservername.rocket.chat
  2. CHANNELNAME (The name of the Broadcast Channel we created earlier, make sure its in lower case with no spaces)

• Add API Gateway Trigger. Select Create A New API, for security choose Open and then click on Add. Finally click Save.

• We will be using API endpoint in the next step. You can also change skill title as per you need in code.

Creating Flash Briefing Skill

• Go Alexa Developer Console.

• Click on Create Skill, give Skill name , Default language and choose Flash Briefing model then click on Create Skill.

• Write Custom Error Message, then click on Add new feed. Fill details as per you requirement.

• Choose Content type as Text.

• In Feed, paste the API endpoint URL.

• Upload Photo and hit Add.

• Click on Save and that should complete the complete the process.