http://www.minervakestner.com/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:31:58 +0000 At work - Twine community en http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/348/frequency-of-report Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:21:54 +0000 At work Meteotest Informatik 348@/discussions ]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/491/what-urls-does-twine-need-access-to-a-bit-more-info-about-how-it-works Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:36:41 +0000 At work Sapient Nitro 491@/discussions
When setting up the device, it's talking directly to my machine, so that's fine.

1) When I'm programming it (adding twines to the device) it seems to be blocked ( starts fine then disappears) so I'm guessing it needs access to twine.cc, right? Or is the client code communicating directly to the twine over the network rather than the internet?
(EDIT: See from someone else's post that it goes via the internet for this bit so I'll need to give it access to twine.cc for sure)

2) Further more once the twine is programmed up is it then independent of twine.cc posting directly to twitter.com or does it send things to twine.cc where the request is processed (eg the tweet is changed slightly to avoid repetition.. I'm guessing that doesn't happen on the device or does it?)

Any help you can provide about what domains it accesses would be great!

]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/383/which-wifi-network-will-work-at-work Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:24:25 +0000 At work Andrew Burroughs 383@/discussions ]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/43/sleep-monitor Sat, 10 Nov 2012 10:38:27 +0000 At work Gene Jaleski 43@/discussions http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/360/connecting-to-wifi-at-work Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:24:16 +0000 At work Eirik Knutsen 360@/discussions ]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/343/pass-a-url-as-an-action Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:59:58 +0000 At work Meteotest Informatik 343@/discussions
The full URL is: http://messenger1.handybutler.ch/websms/spyce/sendxml.do?originator=ALARM&recipient=07********&message= Server Room Temp Alert - Above 26C]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/310/twine-for-social-development Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:27:23 +0000 At work James Sifuentes 310@/discussions
I just got my twine some days ago and while I see a lot of potential on it, I am trying to see what could be its value for social development projects. I would love to hear from you and interchange ideas on this topic.

Please check this video by @waterforpeople that I really like and may get you inspired, it involves the use of mobile devices to monitor water projects in the developing world, to make sure that the water keeps flowing.

http://bcove.me/rorfa8w6

Thanks!,

James Sifuentes
Twitter: @JamesSifuentes ]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/302/twine-integrated-to-enterprise-notification-system Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:55:37 +0000 At work Doug Peete 302@/discussions
We have a cool program for employees that we call "555". It was inspired by Google's 20% Time to allow us to pick fun projects we would like to explore. The fives represent:

* It happens every 5th of the month or thereabouts - you get the whole day to explore whatever you want.
* It amounts to approximately 5% of an engineer's working life.
* On the morning following, each engineer has 5 minutes to demo what they created on their day.

I have been watching the Twine for awhile and thought it would be the perfect marriage: easy to setup sensor's, and carrier-grade alerts.

Instead of re-documenting everything here, you can see my work by going to: http://community.xmatters.com/community/it-management/discuss/blog/2013/01/12/want-to-monitor-temperature-moisture-doors-and-more

And one other note: my original intent was to use an existing service like IFTTT, COSM, Tarpipe or one of the other ETL providers out there to get this done, but it became apparent that our (and everybody else's) reliance on REST leaves a gap. We all speak REST and JSON, but none of our JSON lines up. Nobody it seems provides a simple ability to define a template JSON message with variable replacement as an integration block (anyone want to do a startup with me?). So I wrote some simple, likely flawed, PHP code as glue between Twine's GET and our POST. Follow the blog post above to our community for the source if you would like it to integrate your Twine to other REST services

I had a lot of fun playing with Twine - thank you guys for the platform!

Doug
]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/275/naming-the-different-sensors Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:15:06 +0000 At work John Hefferon 275@/discussions http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/276/confused-orientation Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:24:56 +0000 At work John Hefferon 276@/discussions i've taken out the batteries to no avail, anyone got this problem?]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/246/using-twine-to-monitor-a-small-enterprise-data-center Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:13:48 +0000 At work Paul Moorhead 246@/discussions Some functionality is missing though unless someone can advise me otherwise.
I need a daily (at least) heartbeat message so that I know the thing is working. Is there any way to create a time based rule? Not yet afaics
I would like to be able to insert data into my update emails, so, for example, if the temperature goes above 28C I want to know just how hot it is. I don't want to set a rule for every possible temperature, just have the email that's generated include the actual temperature at the time. the most flexible way would be to allow the use of !sensor value! as a macro in the email text where sensor value can be one of temperature, humidity, orientation etc.
Next I want to be able to use "not" in a rule e.g. the twine is "not" on its back - that's simpler than a rule to cover all the other possible orientations.
I would like to be able to set a "cleared" checkbox in a rule which sends another message when the situation is resolved. in other words if the rule is to send an email when the temperature goes above 28c, then a clear message would be sent when it went back below.
And the very last thing I want for Christmas is a current sensor to wrap around the main power line, so that if the power goes, then while the UPS is still keeping things alive I get a death squawk.

Cool device though - so much potential]]> http://www.minervakestner.com/discussion/215/door-alarm Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:05:57 +0000 At work Shawn Chittle 215@/discussions en