[TriEmbed] Twitter Questions

[William Cox]

Have you looked at https://www.lithouse.co/? It's broker/portal for the
Internet-of-Things. It lets you use it as an input trigger for If This Then
That (IFTTT), which lets you post to Twitter.


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Charles McClelland
<chip at mcclellands.org>wrote:

> To all,
>
> I have been building an apartment monitor that can collect information
> around my apartment (temp, light, occupancy, and "knocks" via XBee from my
> wireless knock sensor).  At first I used an internet of things service -
> Xively  - to make the results available to my phone while traveling.
>  However, after reading the excellent book "Hatching Twitter: A True
> Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal<http://www.audible.com/pd/Hatching-Twitter-Unabridged-Part-1-Audiobook/B00GAA28JK>"
> , I thought - why not Tweet the information.
>
> I have this working now with my Arduino having its own Twitter tag -
> @chipduino.  But I have run into the limitations of the Arduino platform as
> the new Twitter 1.1 APIs, SSL connection, and OAuth authentication mean
> that the Arduino cannot Tweet on its own.   In addition, the approach I
> have working today is only one directional allowing me to post Tweets but
> not read and act upon them.   That leaves me three options:
> 1) Be content with simply being able to post Tweets using an intermediary
> service to manage the OAuth identification as I am today with -
> http://arduino-tweet.appspot.com
> 2) Build my own service in the cloud (perhaps using JazzHub and a PHP
> script that is already available<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12916539/simplest-php-example-for-retrieving-user-timeline-with-twitter-api-version-1-1/15314662#15314662>)
> so I can do more than just Tweet.  I would like to tell my Arduino to do
> something via Twitter like turn on the heat when I am coming home
> (security?)
> 3) Move to a more capable embedded system like the Beagle Board, Raspberry
> PI or even the new combo boards like Galileo or Yun where I could run the
> Twitter stuff locally.
>
> I am sure someone has dove into the Social Media pool, what is your advice
> on the best path forward?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chip
>
>
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