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Overnight breaking-news alarm: X check every 5 minutes, then lights on and Alexa announcement
The news you're waiting for may break while you're asleep in another time zone.
What hurt
Tobias Goebel (@tpgoebel) wanted to be awake the moment a rumored European announcement dropped overnight on US Eastern time. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
The bot monitors X every 5 minutes from midnight to 8am ET. When the news appears it calls Voice Monkey's API, which kicks off an Alexa routine: a SwitchBot robot finger flips the bedroom lights on and an announcement plays on every Alexa speaker.
Bots
Night watch
Monitors X for one event and triggers the alarm.
Plugins
X
Optional
Routines
Overnight watch. Every 5 min, midnight–8am. Check X for the trigger; on match, call the Voice Monkey API.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/tpgoebel/status/2108311538272534542 (credit @tpgoebel).
- 2Define the exact news you're waiting for and the time window.
- 3Set up a Voice Monkey trigger that starts an Alexa routine (lights, announcement).
- 4Give the bot the trigger's API details through a secret field, not chat.
- 5Create the routine for that window only, and switch it off afterwards.
Approval fence
Read-only on X. A 5-minute check uses usage fast; limit it to the window you need.
What to tweak
Give it a narrow time window and a precise trigger so false alarms stay rare.
Source
Tobias Goebel (Unsupervised) @tpgoebel · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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