Twitter + ioBridge = Home Automation
Thanks to Oprah, Twitter is a household name. You can’t avoid it. But, Twitter uses are starting to flourish thanks to an API and dedicated developers. Matt Morey has developed a two-way, home automation application using Twitter to control lights and LCDs and monitor temperature and light sensors. His app interfaces Twitter with the ioBridge IO-204 by using the PHP Widget Control API.
Follow MattsOffice on Twitter
Matt’s Twitter application allows him to make updates to his Twitter feed and send commands to his IO-204 to turn on lights, send messages to his serial LCD screen, and get temperatures and light sensor readings. He also has a nifty extension that allows you to see a view from his office by sending him a tweet, which takes a snap shot from a digital camera and posts it on TwitPic.
Go ahead, follow MattsOffice and send Matt a message to his LCD screen -- “@MattsOffice lcd Awesome ioBridge Project”. For more details, check out matthewmorey.com, a brilliant article on ReadWriteWeb, or YouTube video demonstration of the home automation project in action.
24. July 2009 at 12:44 am :
[...] Twitter and ioBridge, Morey has built a house monitoring system which allows him to control lights, LCDs, temperature, and [...]
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9. October 2009 at 4:14 am :
[...] the complete article at ReadWriteWeb.com, read our original ioBridge Projects post, and interact with Matt’s Office on [...]
12. October 2009 at 4:57 pm :
As far as obscure uses for Twitter go, this is up there… It does really show the potential of the ioBridge however!