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Hey, wouldn't it be cool if homey notifies you about an incomming whatsapp message and asks if it should read it so you could answer handsfree? You could use a flow for this, e.g. if your smartphone is on the charger and its not in the middle of the night Homey could use this profile... And so on.
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There are a lot of other apps waiting
If homey would know if you are under the shower or in a loud kitchen it would be handy.
Being interrupted if you are having a conversation with a friend who came over would be annoying as well.
WhatsApp does have a web interface now, maybe that could be abused for this purpose.
Ciscospark now also has a channel in zapier, built.io and ifttt.com for webhooks. Looks interesting to me as Ciscospark adds free Audio and Video (SIP URI dialing to any public URI) soon and has incoming and outgoing webhooks as well.
Afaik the only way to add any meaningfull support for whatsapp is to add GSM SIM support to Homey. You could use one of those free Lebara SIM cards to register on whatsapp and send commands to Homey by whatsapp message. Or text\SMS. Or call.
I say: put GSM SIM support on the wishlist for Homey 2!
Or just stick with Telegram...
https://www.messagebird.com/en/chat-api
Now I use the /manager/speech-input or output website for it but that only supports one way and a webinterface.