Twitter: easy script for HS tweets

[DJF3]

Hi,

Just finished testing my Twitter script for HS. It allows you to call the script with your twitter text that includes date/time/device-values/device-strings.

Example:

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("Main","Temperature is vv[T19] at dd[hh:mm] and front door is ss[^8]") 

The result would be: "Temperature is 21 at 11:20 and the front door is closed"

How does it look?


Where can I get it?
http://www.domoticaworld.com
Click on 'Twitter' under 'Scripts'

[DJF3]

Added Prowl support for APNS (Apple Push Notification Services - works great!)

[drmacchi]

Please let me understand: you publish home's info on twitter, do you? But isn't it better to connect directly to HS by ip?

[Alexander]

I don't understand either. What is the benefit?

Alexander

[DJF3]

I use Twitter quite often and now in my list of 'tweets' I see information about my house.

Sure I can browse to HS, use my touch-screen, call my home IVR, look at the TV, look at the IP phone to get similar information.

It's about getting specific information send to an app that I use on a daily basis anyway.

If you're not a Twitter user this won't be useful for you.

Bye!
DJ

[8r1an]

Been using DJ_Twitter and it works very well. One thing missing is sending prowl messages with different priority.
Would it be possible to add this?

Brian

[TANE]

@DJ
Thanks for the great script.
found some small bugs.
It will not work with devices using "("
(3 is my instant power usage device.

see my Dutch blog about Homeseer and Twitter
http://www.tane.nl/wp/?p=58





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[DJF3]

Good point Enver!
I haven't tested this. Hope to have more time fixing some of these bugs next month
Cheers
DJ

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[TANE]

DJ,
Volegnede optie regel geeft een foute week dag aan
("Main","Incoming Transmission -Telefoon op dd[hh:mm DDD, D MMM YYYY] HS-script")

Incoming Transmission -Telefoon op 18:25 maandag, 8 november 2009 HS-script

8 november is een zondag

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[DJF3]

Updated website with Twitter/APNS version 0.4:
-Fixed double string/value issue where 2nd string/value isn't shown
-Fixed (chak!) day-of-week-name issue (where monday should be sunday)
-Updated trace information shown

http://www.domoticaworld.com and click on 'Twitter' under Scripts.

[I-1]

Hi,

I am using the twitter script now.
I have a question ...

I now discovered after 2 hours that you I need to give in a parameter after the script to make it work...

Anyway... I don't understand the parameters and how to use them.
For example ...
- When my harison curtains (on A1) and closing or opening or stoping I want to generate a twitter message.

Now what parameter do I have to put in in order to say:
"On <date/time> the <curtains A1> - status changed to <open/close/stop>"

Thanks,

[I-1]

In the documentation there are only these parameters explained:

- 'vv[<device>]' to insert VALUE of a HS device
- 'ss[<device>]' to insert the device STRING

Can you please give me more examples ... of how this works ... because
when I use "vv[A1]" it gives me back the value "4"
when I use "ss[A1]" it gives me back the value "STOP"

What also a pain in the ass is, is that it only twitters when I hit the RUN button ... it will not run when my curtains open/close or stop.

See my twitter page --> http://twitter.com/tikadomo

When I set the trigger to "Device Status Change" I can select a device "Living Room Curtains" and there is no OPEN/CLOSE/STOP status to choose from ...

This is really driving me crazy

[DJF3]

Hi I-1

Make sure you check out this information: http://www.domoticaworld.com (click 'Twitter' under Scripts))

One remark: have you tried device-VALUE change instead of device-STATUS change? You might get a list with open/close/stop.

- "vv[A1]" will be replaced by the device VALUE of device "A1"
In HomeSeer 2.4.0.2 or higher you can open device A1 and click on 'Additional information'. You can now see the device value/status/string of a device. Right now the script can only be the value or string of a device (or a date/time)

- If you want to want any status to be twittered you can select "Status=Set Any Status" and send the device-string through the script
- Alternatively you can find out what the device-values for OPEN/CLOSE/STOP are, and trigger based on a device value change

To generate "On <date/time> the <curtains A1> - status changed to <open/close/stop>"
Call script: DJ_Twitter_xx.vb with parameter
("Main","On dd[DD MM] the curtains - status changed to ss[A1]")
("Main","On dd[DD MM] the curtains - status changed to ss[A1]|no")
-- to not send it, only put it in the logfile
("Main","On dd[DD MM] the curtains - status changed to ss[A1]|prowl")
-- send to iphone using Prowl's APNS
Again, the status "open/close or stop" should be in the device-string (as it cannot be in the device-value)

If it doesn't work as expected, set the strDebug parameter in the script to 2 and post the HS log (double check if there's no passwords in the traces).

Cheers
DJ

[I-1]

Hi DJ,

I kind of have it working ...
How do I use the prowl option AND the twitter option?
Is that done only by adding the "prowl" keyword?

Thanks,
Iwan

[Maarten]

Hello homeseer say 13-12-2009 21:14:36 - Warning - VB.Net script exception(310), re-starting: Lengte kan niet minder dan nul zijn.Parameternaam: length

Whate is the problem? my script looks like thit:

("main","Temperatuur in Hellevoetsluis is ss[13] dit was op dd[DDD, DMM YYYY] HS-script')

Whate i am doing rong?