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Today’s bot outages (the techy post)

Some bots went offline today, which led to web account outages. The reason was one of our bot servers which has died because of a hard drive failure. The affected bots were quickly moved to a nearby server… which got crashed under the extra load, too. This was unexpected.

The good news is that while our server team was trying to reanimate these machines, the development team managed to develop the system which allows SmartBots to quickly detach (or, say, temporary forget) any set of broken bots. This will also help during SL rolling restarts, when large random sets of bots fall offline.

We are sorry if your bots were offline today. Everything is running smoothly now!

P.S. We are going to completely replace the second, unreliable server tomorrow. All bots are expected to stay online during the migration.

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Advanced Notices now allows custom scheduling!

Advanced Notices add-on is designed to enhance your business by sending important notices and announcements using a calendar-based interface.

Recently we conducted a survey asking for feedback regarding the Advanced Notices add-on, as always our users were kind enough to provide very useful feedback. Thank you!

We added a feature to allow custom scheduling, when you visit your Advanced Notices add-on

1. Visit your Advanced Notices and create new notice
2. Enable the Repeat option
3. You will notice the Custom option that you can click.

This option will allow you to enter your own schedule, which our system will recognize, parse it with our scheduling and give you the confirmation.

 

To find out more information and what kind of scheduling rules you can currently enter, Visit Custom Schedule Documentation

You can purchase the Advanced Notices add-on from our add-on store – if you need any help, feel free to contact our 24/7 Live Chat Support

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Bot TotalControl LSL library in Beta!

We are pleased to announce the release of the beta version a highly demanded bot API called TotalControl which is designed to offer simplicity for LSL developers to interact with SmartBots personal bots.

TotalControl API works very much like our AdminBot API in terms of usage, but instead of being focused on group management, we focused this on having control of every aspect of your bot(s).

TotalControl is the LSL library to control your Second Life bot and use 100% of its abilities.

TotalControl allows you to:

  • Move your bot
  • Change its appearance
  • Listen to local chat and incoming IM’s
  • Send messages
  • Manage groups
  • Create note cards, edit send them
  • Manage bot’s inventory
  • Sim Management (if bot has sim rights)

How does it work:

  •  place your script and TotalControl library into the object
  •  your script sends commands using llMessageLinked
  •  your script receives events (local chat, IMs, money transactions) using link_message LSL event

Your bot can do literally everything the regular avatar can do in SL. This allows creating truly alive and useful bots.

TotalControl provides simplicity, and easy in terms of integrating with existing projects with only 1 line of code required to send a command to your bot.

This is a beta release so we appreciate any feedback, requests or issues.

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If you need any further help or have questions please contact us.

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L$ Balance improvement in Bot Control Panel

Bot Control Panel allows you to manage your Personal Bot settings and various options. Such as:

  • Attach/detach current add-ons
  • Set base location and object to sit
  • Edit username/password
  • Configure autoresponder

and more!

We have released a new feature to control your bot’s current L$ balance even more conveniently. Under the Send money option, bot’s current L$ balance will be displayed.

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