Alternative to Conversational Actions for audio streaming - actions-on-google

As many others are, we are severely impacted by the sunsetting of Conversational Actions and have no viable solution to our live streaming (audio) action. We're looking for a solution for our radio station using the "Hey Google, play (station name)" and plays a live audio (MP3/AAC) audio stream.
Does anyone know/have a solution for this before the sunset deadline of 2023?
What are other people doing about this?
One of the only things I can see is "Media Actions" but this seems to be closed to a limited number of people at the moment.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/advice.

Currently we do not have a solution or update to the successor of this feature. We will update our public documentation as soon as we have any update in this regard. In the meantime, you can open up a ticket on the public issue tracker in this regard.

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Send transcribed, spoken text from smart speakers/displays to server after Conversational Action shutdown?

If I need to explain how insanely important and useful this functionality is, please let me know. However, I suspect this is obvious to everyone except Google.
Please, please tell me there is another way to accomplish this.
I need to do all speech parsing, processing, and responses on my own. And from a smart speaker/display. Conversational Actions allowed for this. As far as I have been able to tell, there is no alternative way to accomplish this. I'm shocked and severely disappointed. You're literally crippling your smart speakers and displays. I have one in every room right now and will be selling them after the shutdown unless something changes. I sure hope you reverse course on this.
We noted your ask here and will continue to monitor for other similar requests involving the Conversational Actions in our support channels. We do collect these requests, share with the teams involved in the planning process, and try to get them in our feature development timeline.
Unfortunately there are no features readily available to replace the capability you mentioned above, but our teams are constantly working towards providing a better Google Smart Home Ecosystem. When we have any updates on these features, we will update our public documentation.

Internet connection change in Unity

Is there an event sent by Unity that notifies about internet connection changes?
Android has a BroadcastReceiver for that as detailed in this link.
In Unity I only found examples of manual connectivity tests, but I'm looking for something similar to Android.
As far as I'm aware, it is possible. I found a thread here on Unity answers.
I know this is old, most of the suggested solutions online are not really reliable nor correct. Pinging google is not allowed (By google itself) and Unity's Application.internetReachability does not always work as it was not designed for that puprose (as stated in the docs).
The proper way is to implement a technique called Captive Portal Detection, which is what all the major OS's use for their internet status detection. If implemented correctly, it can even detect when the network is restricted (hotels or airports) as it relies on HTTP requests of known content. Therefore it is far more reliable.
It is not that hard to implement. You need to make an HTTP request to a known "check page", and check whether the right content were returned.
However, if you want a complete, ready-to-use solution, you can check the asset Eazy NetChecker which I created for this purpose. It also has events and a custom editor. It is not free, but it is super cheap!

Track score from SCORM 2004

I am creating a LMS portal and planning to use adobe presenter as the online training quiz builder. After publishing the quiz (scorm 2004), I am not sure how to track the user's score. I already google it but could not find any working example. After searching google, I came to this point that I need javascript to track the score. But no luck yet.
If anyone knows, could you please help me in regards to this.
Thanks
Implementing a SCORM conformant LMS is a non-trivial task. Get started by reading up on it here and then dive into the technical parts. You will then want to download the official spec documents from ADL and read those.

Platform For Volunteer Management Website

I help out at a local soup kitchen, and they are wanting to create a website. Most of their criteria are pretty simple, they want to be able to have a calendar, post pictures, and have a blog. However they also want to be able to manage volunteer's. They want to be able to post a event, have a list of jobs that they need volunteer's for that event, and allow people to sign up for the jobs. I would like to base this website on a well known platform like DotNetNuke, WordPress, or Drupal. Before I go and code my own plugin for managing volunteers I decided to see if I could find a platform that already has a module available. So far I have not been able to find anything. Has anybody heard of one or used one in the past? I would appreciate any suggestions.
There's a whole range of ways to do this, but I haven't ever seen a dedicated solution (plugin or otherwise).
On the one hand, a blog could do all that you're asking. Posting pictures and blog entries? That's wordpress all over. Want a calendar? We have a plugin for that. Want to let volunteers sign up for stuff? Let them post comments.
On the other hand, the problem you're describing isn't unique: In my own experience I've wanted the software you describe. May I suggest that, if you have the time, you make something totally awesome for the volunteer community?
Our company, Wired Impact, recently released a plugin called Wired Impact Volunteer Management that provides exactly the functionality you're looking for. You can learn more and download the plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wired-impact-volunteer-management/.

Development team collaboration via Google Wave

I hope I am not repeating any previously asked question.
Anyway, so Google Wave is nice and shiny and sounds like a lot of folks(at least at Google I/O :) used it in a useful for work(!) way. I've been beta-testing Google Wave for sometime now, but can't quite grasp how to improve our workflow using it. We have a medium size team of developers that are spread out around US and Europe and naturally most of communication is happening via IM and Skype and email of course. So what are specific things that could be offloaded to Google Wave to improve collaboration by leaps and bounds(meaning not just replacing IM with nicer IM)?
I do not think Google Wave will ever replace "communication" tools, so you won't be able to offload much in terms of IM/Skype/email (and imho the ping feature in Google wave kinda sucks).
What's it's great for is collaboratively and concurrently editing content in the chaotic initial phase, be it documentation, emails, press releases or whatever. Then once documents are stable I find it's easier to manage them as Google docs, which can still be versioned but in a more mature environment.
Also, I think Wave would be great for concurrent programming, and I am hoping someone will put together a code-completion/syntax-highlighting extension for concurrent programming (would do it myself if I had time). it would change "pair programming forever", and at least that way the other wouldn't just sit there occasionally trying to grab your keyboard!
Notifications.
Unload the daily/hourly/whatever notifications about people pushing git updates, how many errors were found, etc onto Wave for people to monitor and respond to instead of making them filter all sorts of email notifications.
Hey, youll be happy to know Devunity.com is finishing up a Google Wave/App Engine + Eclipse Perspective team collaboration. it will let you post your code automatically into a created wave and syntax highlight it side by side with your current code.
be sure to check for updates http://beta.devunity.com.
coming soon! :)
We're working on a desktop app here that leverages email communication to help teams succeed with projects. The app represents email communication in channels, as chats, and adds project related info so that all ownerships and requests could be tracked.
It is in "beta" but check it out, may be there is a fit for your team: http://yoxel.com/personal-commitment-manager.html