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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I just did this. I'm with ATT, I got initial text so far. |
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Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | luluwhit - 2016-02-03 12:15 PM i signed up as draw 123 also with ATT and i think it ended up being 279 or something... but the opt in email was immediate.
I signed up with 208 and gave me draw 279 also.  |
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Elite Veteran
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| I got my info!
I think the page asked for feed back. I got one message, but it came through saying that it was 1 of 2 and 2 of 2, but the way it came through (the way it displayed on my phone) it looked like I was supposed to enter my draw number to continue. Took me a bit to realize it was saying message 2 of 2 because it came in as one message. |
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Veteran
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| This morning this thing has been going crazy. I have texted "stop" and "quit" but now it keeps sending updates
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | hey steve just a thought..... if im draw 123 and they are already up to draw 150 i sure would have liked a text as to what time i ran because after going 9-0 around three barrels im out of breath, trying to stop a fire breathing dragon and never heard a dang thing the annoucer said after "draw 123 lu......". so if that is an option that it would text me my time after a run i want that!!!  |
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Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I just got a new text with correct draw number that I initially put in, current draw number and time winning. |
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 Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | i havent received anything after the initial text. it has been an hour.
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Worked great for me. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I'm with US Cellular and I finally got my draw updates about thirty minutes ago! :) |
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Veteran
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| It finally stopped |
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| Thanks again for all 60 of you that signed up.
I had to opt in all ATT and US Cell accounts manually. The program had a bug where manual opt-ins could not Stop or opt out - fixed.
ATT and US Cell accounts could not reply to the server, maybe some other smaller carriers as well - for this we have signed up to a professional text aggregation service. This will solve that two way communication problem and the messages should be immediate.
At a real barrel race the messages will go out during every drag or two. The stats person at the race will be the primary person to send the alerts. Only the next 50 numbers get the alerts.
We will be having another short test soon. You will see it here in the forum.
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Elite Veteran
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| Thanks! This would be a fantastic service! How would this work? Will this be an app or a website that promoters can rent/or subscribe to in order to offer this? |
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Elite Veteran
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| Also, I'm not sure if this is because it's in the testing stage, but would it be possible to make the texts all come from the same number? Mine came through with the same first few digits, but with each addition text, the last number changed. So, my phone didn't string them together in one conversation? It was only 3-4 today, but if this was really used in a show with 1500 entries, and someone ran 4 horses, that would be a lot of messages coming through that the phones interpret to be different sources.
If someone was at a huge race, running multiple horses, it may be difficult to keep track of the last known fastest time, which draw, etc. |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | i never got another notification after the first |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | OutlawsLastDance - 2016-02-03 3:21 PM Also, I'm not sure if this is because it's in the testing stage, but would it be possible to make the texts all come from the same number? Mine came through with the same first few digits, but with each addition text, the last number changed. So, my phone didn't string them together in one conversation? It was only 3-4 today, but if this was really used in a show with 1500 entries, and someone ran 4 horses, that would be a lot of messages coming through that the phones interpret to be different sources. If someone was at a huge race, running multiple horses, it may be difficult to keep track of the last known fastest time, which draw, etc.
Mine all came from the same number. |
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Expert
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I am with US Celllular and mine finally worked after 1:30 pm today. It would be nice if your time would also be shown to you after you run also. |
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| I have T-Mobile and all of the texts came from seperate numbers (970-6, 370-0, 960-3,950-4,950-5, ect) and I was draw 127 and recieved draw 110 and then Im guessing it was "my turn" and recieved one more text after saying the winning time. Would be nice if they wern't seperate but it went well. I didn't text any "?" in though |
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