This repository contains a sample leveraging the Vonage SMS API and Microsoft's Language Understanding (Luis) platform.
You can play with Luis yourself in a manner consistent with the blog post - or you can simply upload DeliverySample.json from this repo as your Luis model
Open in Visual Studio, right click on the project and go to properties. In the Debug tab scroll down to enviornment variables and add the following
Variable | Description |
---|---|
NEXMO_API_KEY | Your Nexmo Api Key from the dashboard |
NEXMO_API_Secret | Your Nexmo Api Secret from the dashboard |
LUIS_PREDICTION_KEY | This is the key from Luis |
LUIS_ENDPOINT_NAME | The endpoint url from luis e.g. https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com |
LUIS_APP_ID | the Guid App ID from Luis |
Alternatively you can access the settings directly in launchSettings.json
Check what port your assigning for IIS express and configure ngrok with the following command:
ngrok http --host-header="localhost:PORT_NUMBER" http://localhost:PORT_NUMBER
replacing PORT_NUMBER with the port number for IIS
Now all that's left to do is to go to the settings page in the dashboard and just change the inbound messages url to http://UNIQUE_NGROK_ENDPOINT.ngrok.io/webhooks/inbound
replacing UNIQUE_NGROK_ENDPOINT
with the random set of charecters produced by ngrok. Thus in the example above the endpoint would be http://dc0feb1d.ngrok.io/webhooks/inbound
that will point nexmo at your IIS express server and allow us to receive messages.
Now just fire up IIS Express and start texting your Nexmo number. You can test with a phrase like Send chicken wings to 7287 North Cottage Ave. Camden, NJ 08105 from Popeye's