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You seem to be stuck in the dark ages if you think that controlling your lights from twitter is black magic or some hocus pocus. Even at its most basic you could do this with a CM11a connected to a PC+gsm modem[+optional internet]+ a few X10 modules and very little software.

You're supposed to be tech people. Act like it.

here, try joining us in 2008...

http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
http://www.smarthome.com
http://www.xplmonkey.com/

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They first have to figure out how to let you edit your posts. You know, it's a really complicated matter.]]>May 21st 2008 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/Any developer can build this in 15 minutes.
Ask my Mother-in-Law: I demoed exactly this 1 year ago.]]>May 21st 2008 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/
I used this sort of script to report the weather from the weather network webpage. The issue was that as soon as the layout or the path to the exact page changed, the entire script was pooched.

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But if it does then I fucking called it.]]>May 21st 2008 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/A comedy poking fun at geeks looks to have inspired a geek.
The circle is complete.]]>May 21st 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/May 21st 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/
I even added some zork style grammar parsing so you could almost converse with the thing. Here's the basic idea...

House says: Hello Chris
Chris says: Go to Bedroom
House says: Okay, I'm in the Bedroom, the lights are off.
Chris says: Turn on the sconce lights to 15%.
House says: Okay, I turned on the sconce lights to 15%.
Chris says: How hot is it?
House says: The current temperature in the Bedroom is 70 degrees.
Chris says: Make it warmer.
House says: Okay, I'll make it warmer.
Chris says: Play some Barry White.
House says: I'm playing All Time Greatest Hits by Barry White.

And so it goes on... this was in 2002. Shame Premise got bought by Motorola and they pretty much killed it - meh.]]>May 22nd 2008 12:51AM