i do this at home with all my lights using a software called indigo by perceptive automation. I don't see the need to use twitter. You can email commands - im command - or sms to email. x10 is dead - insteon is the new way to do home automation.
I used to work at Premise Systems back in the day. One of the things I did for fun was write a bridge to MSN messenger to test out the SDK. The way it worked was that your house showed up as a buddy on messenger so to control stuff all you needed to do was open up a chat window with him/her :)
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.
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i do this at home with all my lights using a software called indigo by perceptive automation. I don't see the need to use twitter. You can email commands - im command - or sms to email. x10 is dead - insteon is the new way to do home automation.
I used to work at Premise Systems back in the day. One of the things I did for fun was write a bridge to MSN messenger to test out the SDK. The way it worked was that your house showed up as a buddy on messenger so to control stuff all you needed to do was open up a chat window with him/her :)
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.