guiguan

Hi,

 

I discover the workflow: great and very useful!

 

Just a question: when I write "callm" and a contact, there are 2 options: email or iMessages.

I just want to have iMessages (I use very iMessages to contact someone).

Is it possible?

I don't know how to do it.

 

Thanks.

 

I guess that the email option is another way to send out iMessages to your friends. Normally, those email addresses could be your friend's Apple Ids. However, you could nominate a phone number or email address as the only target and opt out all other options for a person using "nomination". Check out this for details: http://unicall.guiguan.net/usage.html#messages-call

v6.031 (09/03/15)

• Fixed a bug that could automatically add phonetic names for non-Chinese names when Uni Call starts

v6.03 (09/03/15)

• Minor fix for WeChat Call

Improved international name support: by normalising Unicode characters to their single code point representation at very beginning. This solves searching issues with non-standard English alphabet names, such as German, Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

OMG.

 

Really good work for me.

 

Your assistance like Thunderbolt2(powerful and fast)

 

Thank you very very much.

 

If you don't mind distributing it to my friends, I will do that and introduce it. 

 

Best regards,

YCY

 

Nice to hear that, haha.

 

Not at all. Please introduce Uni Call to your friends

 

I am going to make a release soon about this fix.

 

Ok, This is specific cases.

 

Thanks your quick response.

 

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Hi ycy3723,

 

Thank you my friend. Your screenshots were pretty helpful. It turned out that the problem was indeed unicode grapheme cluster problem, where a Korean character could sometime be represented by multiple unicode code points and other times be represented by just a single unicode point. Although they all represent the same Korean character, they were treated differently in Uni Call.

 

Now I normalised all query string at the very beginning, so it should work now. Could you please try out this build that I compiled just for you to test out? Let me know how it goes.

 

Best regards,

Guan

I was thinking more of: "callm + NAME" then hit return then the workflow will produce a text box where i can enter the text and then hit Return again to send it. At this point the message will be sent and the workflow closed and i should be back to what i was doing before. 

 

I just don't like hitting small keys (especially if they require pressing modifier keys) when you are working away. Hitting big fat keys like spacebar or return is so much easier and quicker (at least for me). 

 

Also i think separating logical steps with Return key is more natural and somewhat reflects you thinking and decision making process than writing one complex expression in one line. 

 

but when you type "callm + NAME" then hit return, Uni Call leads you directly to Messages‘ text box, from where you can type your messages and just hit return for sending. This is exactly what you want So adding an extra UI (text box) in between is redundant. 

Dear Guiguan

 

First, Thanks to you about your nice Uni call workflow.

 

And I have a question.

 

I'm Korean.

 

I searched my friend name in Korean.

 

But Uni call can't search my friend.

 

How can I search with Korean language.

 

Thank you.

 

Hi ycy3723,

 

Could you please provide me a concrete example with Korean characters (like what's the search string, what's the Korean names) so that I can tackle this problem on my machine? My first guess is something related to unicode grapheme cluster problem.

 

Cheers,

Guan

Hello, guiguan!

Thank you for this awesome workflow.

 

Is it possible to add an option of composing a message right in the Alfred drop-down box and send it without opening iMessage?

Th be clear, for example when i type "callm + name" Alfred will present me with a drop-down box (i'm not sure of proper name this function) where i can compose a message and then send it from within the workflow without opening iMessage.

Yes, I can add it in the future version. The syntax will be something like: callm TARGET NAME //hello world!. What do you think?

Hi

 

I think, I found some bug/conflict with packal...whentrying to packal update all my workflows, I get this message for Uni call:

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Hi mrgreen,

 

Hmm. I am afraid this is a bug of packal. I did update the corresponding packal information every time when I released a new version of Uni Call. But from your screenshots, it seems packal is still keeping an old version of Uni Call. I recommend you to rely on Uni Call's auto update checking feature (http://unicall.guiguan.net/#upgrade) for future versions.

 

Thank you for your support.

I think I may have found a bug. Does it support accentuated characters? When I type an accentuated character, the workflow doesn't give any result.

 

Hi tbnv,

 

You may be right. Although Uni Call is expected to support unicode characters nicely, I may miss considering some of them. Could you please give me a concrete example? Like what accentuated characters did you type in Uni Call? And what were the names (names in accentuated characters or so) in your Apple Contacts that you were trying to search for? By providing me these things, I could work out a bug fix.

 

Thank you for your support.

 

Hi Guan,

 

New to Mac and currently looking at Alfred and your Uni Call workflow.

 

1. Do you have any plans to support BusyContact as an alternate address book?

 

2. Any possibility of you supporting a fax-via-email option using the industry standard format fax-number@3rd-party-fax-service.com?

 

Thank you,

Malcolm

 

 

Uni Call is built for Apple Contacts (iCloud). However, it looks that BusyContact can sync with iCloud. You may use iCloud as the bridge to bring Uni Call to BusyContact.

 

Is there a dedicated app on Mac OS X to support fax-via-email? Uni Call needs to communicate with such app in order to implement such functionality.

 

-g

Hey, great workflow : )

 

I've got only one problem though: when I send a new (i)message with Uni Call, it's going to open a new message thread on the Messages app, starting with "New message with...." It's not possible to merge it with previous threads already existing?  

At the moment, using URL scheme, the only way to select the right target in Messages is to create a new thread, but after you actually send out a message, it will join existing conversation.

If you are manually upgrading from an old version, please kill the old "Uni Call Satellite" process before proceeding. 

Uni Call v6.02 is released.

 

Recommend all to upgrade. This solves a potential crash of Uni Call.

Very nice work. Thanks!

Hi Shawn,

 

I have submitted a new version on Packal for my workflow (Uni Call). I did receive the confirmation email from your Packal bot, and the status on admin page also says `Published`. However, my workflow page on Packal still displays the old information with a broken icon.

 

Any idea?

 

Best regards,

Guan

Ops, a minor bug fixed for Messages Call's alias `callm`. Uni Call v6.01 is released

I think you can only reply to SMS instead of creating a new SMS based conversation

Quick issue: When trying to callh (Handoff Yosemite),

the call is initiated through Skype for some reason.

 

Might be due to some faulty system settings.

Does anyone know how and where to fix it?

 

I think your Skype app is taking over your FaceTime app as the default handler for the URL scheme "tel://". You need to change it back for FaceTime app to handle that URL scheme, so as to allow Yosemite iPhone continuity function properly. You can use a little utility called RCDefaultApp to do so.

 

I have added this issue to Uni Call's FAQ. You may want to check this out as well

Hi, guys

 

Happy new year!

 

Sorry for the delay. Now, Uni Call v6.0 is finally released. Please try it out and give me some feedback.

 

Here is a long list of what's new in v6.0. 

 

Best regards,

Guan

Hi Guiguan,

 

Maybe you can help me. I have been using a very useful workflow to call numbers that are displayed on my iMac. (Calling them with the iPhone.) Workflow is called Dial with Pushdialer, by Martin Kopischke. 

 

Could you help me (with a workflow?) to call the numbers with a voip app on my iPhone? The free app (in the app store) is called Triiing and is issued by a Belgium telecom provider, Telenet. It is used to call with the iPhone using the Telenet data subscription. (Like Skype, but you don't have to buy extra credit, since i'm using mu paid Telenet subcription.)

 

Would be great. Thank you.

 

Regards,

 

Herman/Belgium

 

(I hope i'm clear:-).)

 

Uni Call supports Pushdialer. Check this out: https://github.com/guiguan/Uni-Call#pushdialer-call

 

Regarding your Triiing app, does it have an API for developers? I couldn't find one from its official website. If no, I don't think that is possible.

 

-g

From the first day I love your workflow and still using it avery day for work and privat with two iPhone's and the phone amego app.

Just want to say thanks again for your great work and the ongoing development.

 

That's all I need to know. Thank you.

It would be nice if you could "call using your iphone" on yosemite. When you try to call via facetime it assumes it's a facetime call with video.

The new version will include both audio FaceTime and Yosemite iphone call, which is coming very soon!

Hey guiguan, I figured out what you need to do to get growlvoice texting to work and it's very simple.

open "growlvoice:${query}?text"

I tested this on the command line and it pulls up the growlvoice window in texting mode with the correct phone number:

open "growlvoice:123456?text"

If you could add that in, that would be great!

 

Thanks again for the great workflow.

 

mkm

 

hi mkm,

 

I am currently working on a new version. I will include this text feature for growlvoice.

 

cheers,

Guan

Would it be possible to add support for "call via iPhone" on Yosemite? Here is a workflow that calls numbers (not contacts): http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/5047-call-via-iphone/

Thanks!

Yes, that is what I am gonna include in the next upcoming release. Please stay tuned