Twitter supposedly used to control house lights
Posted by peachey via Engadget on 22 May 2008 - 08:13 · 7 comments & 2961 views
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#1 Posted by XerXis on 22 May 2008 - 09:12
- why wouldn't it be possible, it's not even that hard to accomplish from the ground up yourself if you have a basic knowledge of electronics and programming
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#5 Posted by +Octol on 22 May 2008 - 20:07
- If you can make a hard drive spin through software, why would you not be able to turn lights on and off the same way? Just get yourself a USB light switch [as soon as somebody invents one!]

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#6 Posted by Nodiaque on 26 May 2008 - 02:38
- This does not actually require any electronic knowledge. Insteon already feature computer interface to turn on/off lights. Also, there's already a bunch of way to control your whole house electric/electronic appliance via a computer and a remote. Not very hard to put all that via a software that start a macro when a certain trigger happen. In fact, a simple plug-in via 2 programs will do. Nothing hard in there.
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We're told it's a mixture of Insteon, SMS and Twitter, all of which are utilized in order to give one particular homeowner the ability to activate / turn off lights remotely by sending a specific message to the latter.
If you're interest is unquestionably piqued, click on through to check out the video -- 'tis a shame there's no how-to guide to be found.