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Dropbox

michael ingmanson — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:06:59 +0000

It would be great if Twine could post text or .csv files to a dropbox folder.

Any thoughts?

-Michael

Door alarm

Shawn Chittle — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:05:57 +0000

I have the mag sensor. I have Twine by my office door. When someone opens my office door it texts me. Now I can't be pranked by my office co-workers; I'll know when they are going in to duct tape my office on me.

What do "Flip me upside down" and "Turn me over" actually mean?

Nic Price — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:24:33 +0000

Can someone please clarify...

Do you have to put the Twine in a specific orientation to trigger Fast mode, and Saving of rules?

Or is it simply enough to CHANGE orientation to cause the trigger?

Waterproof moisture sensor

Grant Hulbert — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:10:02 +0000

The moisture sensor sure doesn't look waterproof. It seems natural that a sensor designed to detect water would itself be waterproof...I can't imagine sticking this thing out in my landscaping to detect plants that need water, if the sensor would short out or get corroded by the presence of water.

HTTP [POST] Persistence in the Ruleset?

Brian Walter — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:09:14 +0000

Hello,

I have a HTTP [POST] rule for my Twine that connects to a API logger when vibration is detected. The rule works great and is fully functional when loaded on the device. When I go back into the rule through the UI it always defaults back to [GET] and I have to use the drop down to get [POST] again. Is this the designed behavior or should the UI be selecting that last-know-load from the device?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

replacing batteries is not easy

doug weiss — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:38:12 +0000

I know designing a cover for twine is tricky, but the current cover is almost impossible to get off to replace the batteries. I had to find something to brace the twine on while I carefully held the flexible cover and slowly pulled it down. While this might be acceptable for a device with a one year or more battery life, my batteries lasted two months (yes, I have it on fast). Some redesign is needed (and then please send us bleeding edge folks the redesigned covers)

Where are rules stored?

John Cooper — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:32:41 +0000

In the twine or on your website?

I have been setting rules from different places, and don't always see rules that I have set elsewhere

John Cooper

I know it's not [officially] supported, but has anyone tried to use a splitter to try two sensors.

Miguel Buenrostro — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:54:52 +0000

Anyone hook up a splitter and try using two of the same [or different] sensors?

Each sensor has a uniqueId, if I understand correctly, so I wonder if a splitter would allow two sensors to work. I could see a problem with the same sensorType (two magnetic, for example since maybe the interface supports only one), but maybe, just maybe, two different sensor types might work?

I'm just wondering and trying to get the most out of this nifty thing.

Temperature sensor is off by 5-10 degrees (F)

Dan Bodenstein — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:30:41 +0000

I've been monitoring the temperature for my Twine, and it's off by 5 to 10 degrees.
I have a non-twine related thermostat. Is anyone else experiencing this?

WEB Browser Access to Twine

Gerry Mueller — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:35:25 +0000

Be aware that as of this time, IE9 access to Twine is totally non-functional, your Dashboard will simply show that your Twine has not reported in.
Chrome and Safari work just fine; I have not tested other browsers.

Pass a URL as an action

Meteotest Informatik — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:59:58 +0000

I am trying to get Twine to send an SMS out when the Server room temperature goes above 26C. We have a mail-to-sms provider and use it currently with Icinga monitoring. The URL I need to have passed seems to be too long for the Twine configuration box so I have to use Tinyurl.com to make it fit. When I pass the url from tinyurl.com through the browser it works fine and the SMS gets through, but when passed through Twine with the 'Test URL' button no SMS is received.

The full URL is: http://messenger1.handybutler.ch/websms/spyce/sendxml.do?originator=ALARM&recipient=07********&message= Server Room Temp Alert - Above 26C

Question about rules.

Nick Bazemore — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:11:03 +0000

I made a rule, and want to delete it from my Twine. How do I do that?

Help bell for sick child

Brian Shotola — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:54:48 +0000

My daughter is unfortunately ill with the flu. While wishing I had a little bell for her to ring like I had as a kid I realized I had my TWINE. Thus I set up a shake notification to txt me if she needs anything during the night without having to get up and find mom & dad. Hopefully she is well enough tonight so she won't need it, but if she does, I'm hoping the TWINE comes through for us. Also, this is my first practical use of my TWINE, so we'll see how it works.

Can't reset or repeat setup

Bo Altes — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:21:47 +0000

After trying to apply last week's firmware update, I can't get my twine to connect to the network it was on previously. I've triple-triple checked the network info and it's correct. I've gone through setup several time and removed the batteries to reset, but nothing has worked. Any suggestions?

EDIT: fixed, setup worked after deleting some rules.

Longer Cable? Two sensors?

Joel Finkle — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:02:03 +0000

Any chance of a longer sensor cable? If you don't supply one, is it straight tip, ring, ring, ring?
Out of curiousity, is there any means of attaching more than one sensor?

Is the moisture sensor food-safe?

Misty Smith — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:27:03 +0000

I'd like to use the moisture sensor to alert me when the level in my espresso machine's water tank has dropped and needs to be refilled. Is the moisture sensor--and specifically the probes, which will be actually touching the water--food-safe?

Notifications not forthcoming but Twine eventually wakes up

Tass Skoudros — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:53:09 +0000

I received my Twine yesterday. I live in the UK so I was probably one of the last to get it. I wanted to share some of the experience of getting my test setup going. My goal with this Twine (i.e for now at least) is to monitor my front door. A few years ago I accidentally left my front door open and went to work. I arrived at work and realised I did not have my house keys. I had left the house keys in the door and left the door open. I had never done this before but I swore it would never happen again. That was about 5 years ago and its never happened again but everyday I do the **touch pockets feel for keys** routine before I leave home. I want Twine to be my door monitor. I want an email or text (i.e text is preferred) when the door is opened and closed. Thats the story anyway.

I unpacked the Twine and was impressed with the packaging its just awesome. Great work with it. I setup the Twine and connected it to my Wifi all with no hitches. First 30 minutes I ran some tests with the built in sensors. It worked great.

Then the Twine went to sleep and became unresponsive. It did not wake up when I changed orientation, it just did nothing at all. I left it and went to bed. This morning it was working and alert. Something tells me that the first few hours for the Twine are a bit slow. Perhaps its running software updates on itself ? Not sure but it definitely is not responsive. I searched around looking for answers when I found none I just left it to do it's thing and I am glad because today it works.

There are some bad parts.

Twine does not support Vodafone which is also the biggest mobile network in the UK.

HTTP requests have a MAX character limit. Why do you limit the amount of characters a HTTP request can have. Had you not done that I could have been up and running with Twilio. We need more documentation regarding your reasoning to limit HTTP request characters.

Finally my Twine does not always send notifications, I setup the LED to trigger when the door opens to make sure my setup was ok. My setup is ok but notifications are not always forthcoming. [edit] Since writing this I have opened/closed the door numerous times and received notifications each time.

Overall I am happy with my Twine its simple and functional and if I can get notifications working like clock work I will be very happy.

Thanks

Building A Better Mouse Trap...

Shannon Pruitt — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:15:01 +0000

We sometimes get mice in our attic above the garage. I used to keep a mousetrap in there, but would always forget to check it.

I used velcro and fastened the mouse trap to the top of the Twine. I checked the level of vibration when the mouse trap is tripped and then created a rule to notify me when that happens.

Now, no more remembering to check the trap... Twine does that for me!

No support for multiple sensors even with splitter

Gustaf Rosell — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:39:18 +0000

I have seen the other discussions here in the forum on multiple sensors, so I just had to try it. I built a splitter which works fine in itself. You can actually add several sensors to the splitter, but only the first connected will be correctly identified. They will then act as two sensors of the same sort, which may be fine in certain circumstances, but often probably not.

I connected the moisture sensor first (which was correctly identified). Nothing happened when I later added the breakout board. When I closed the circuit on the breakout board, the moisture sensor became "wet", and the rule for that sensor was applied (they are all basically just 0/1 contacts anyway).

Everything was exactly the same if I did in the reverse order, with the exception that it was presented as the breakout board.

Can we hope for support for this in the future? Should work, since it is basically just 1-wire IDs.

::g

Number of rules limitation

Stan Vermeulen — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:11:19 +0000

hi guys,

I hardly cannot imagion, but I cannot find it anywhere:

is there a limitation to the number of rules you can add?

I have a 'workaround' for the temperature logging, but takes many rules. wonder if there is a limit to that.

SMS with Twilio and Tropo

Robert Pratten — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:30:47 +0000

I'd like my Twine to send an SMS to one of these middleware providers but it looks like it won't work.
Any suggestions?

Turn off

FAZIRDHEENUmarmukthar Umar-Mukthar — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:42:47 +0000

Hello

Is it possible to turn off twine when it is not in use without removing battery ...to get more battery Life ,,

Twine not working - can't see it in my twine panel

Daniel Prado — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:56:37 +0000

Hello there,

My Twine unity went dead after a few days and i send it back to Supermechanical for replacement. I've just got the replacement unity today.

The question is, what now?

What i did:

- connected new batteries

- the lights blinked (it´s alive!)

- flipped the twine (steady light)

- connected the pc to twine's wifi (\|||Twine)

- first noticed that there was something different: in the twinesetup.com page (the one that displays when connected to twine unity) i´ve just got two options (Wireless and Network Configuration & Administrator Settings)...

- I've inserted my wifi settings (it's an access point with Mixed Network enabled. Check.)

- twine light went off

- flipped the device

- nothing happened in the webpage (as i recall the page self reloaded after a while to redirect to the real twinesetup.com), so i reloaded the page myself

- now it's the regular page, so i inserted my email/password, and... my twine is not detected.

what now?

It´s been quite a while, i'm feeling frustrated and unlucky over here...

Any help is appreciated... Thanks!

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How accurate is the thermometor

James Stone — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:41:48 +0000

Our fridge feels pretty cold but it seems the thermometer said it's 51 F when a fridge should be about 40 F, we actually turned it down (not so cold as it was freezing up)... Just wondering if anyone has had inaccurate results?

Offline mode

Jeremie KLEIN — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:21:21 +0000

Hi

I'm wondering if Twine will be able to buffer data when the wifi is not available and then populate trigger/report/log once the connection is available again.

thanks

Jeremie

Notify on lost Wifi

Brent Forrest — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:04:40 +0000

I want to preface by saying I searched the forums before posting this, as I was sure I'm not the only one...

I'm getting false positives on my magswitch and they're coinciding with the regular wifi interruptions we get with our Bell wireless internet. I was just wondering how to go about a setup where I receive notification like this:

Power outage for (15) seconds - restored at 12:34:00 PM
Lost WIFI for (n) seconds - restored at 12:34:00 PM

Cheers

BF

External Temp sensor + internal sensor

H.Dennis Wallach — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:47:27 +0000

I purchased an external sensor - assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that I would get two temperature readouts - one internal and one external on my dashboard.

I am only seeing one - Can I get both temperature readouts from my twine ? I need to track internal and external temps, hopefully from one device.

-H.Dennis

update: Maybe the external sensor isn't working ? External is out the window (52 degrees) inside is 70.

add an "hour condition" to the internet interface

georges cangiano — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:58:29 +0000

Hello,
I'm adding a photosensor to the Breakout sensor to check if indoor lights are on or off
It could be userfull to add an "hour condition" to the internet interface like :
when breakout is closed and local time is after 11 Pm... then send an email

thanks in advance
georges in Paris, France

Kudos on the mobile version of Twine!

Stella Violano — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:46:29 +0000

Just tried the site on my iPhone and it rocks!

Thanks for the great interface guys!

Breakout Board Tutorial?

James Kelly — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:30:36 +0000

I see how the Breakout Board connects to the Twine with the white cable. I also see GND, In, and 3.3V. So, a few questions:

1. I'm assuming the BB requires 3.3V in... not a problem there.
2. Understand GND... not a problem there.
3. What does the In pin require? Is it simply looking for HI/LOW or digital 1/0 or what?