I have an event tomorrow at a Spanish secondary school where there will be 750 students watching a comvai demo that I prepared where we see the 4 astronauts aboard the Orian capsule and we can talk to them! This is really exciting but I have one issue.
When I ask any of the astronauts “In what stage of the mission are you at right now” I get prelaunch information regarding the preparation of the mission.
How can I connect the Convai AI avatars to live information or is that not possible? I think many of the users in this forum could have great ideas on how to resolve this issue so any help would be really appreciated.
Just saw this — hope the demo went great, sounds amazing
What you’re seeing is expected: Convai characters use static knowledge by default, so they won’t know the current mission stage unless connected to live data.
For future demos, you can solve this using the External APIs feature (in the legacy playground for now):
Go to your character → External API tab
Start from the Weather API template, update the name and description
Set input schema to:
{
"parameters": {},
"required": []
}
Fetch from NASA’s feed: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/feed/
Return the latest item and the character will respond with updated context.
You can also use NewsAPI/GNews, but NASA RSS is simpler (no API key).
Note: this gives latest updates, not true real-time mission stage — but works well for demos.