[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Lights/Temp/etc. push notices.
- From: Chad Elish <chadisrad@xxxxxx>
- To: "hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:03:10 -0500
If you decide to opt in, there are a few ways we can setup these features on
your device. Signing up for the email list, setting up push, and following the
@hackpgh_shop twitter feed.
Check them out and find out which option is right for you.
Email List: (This will send you a bunch of emails)
1. Subscribe to hackpgh-shop on freelists www.freelists.org/list/hackpgh-shop
with your email address.
2. Enjoy email notifications!
Push notifications:
This is setup using an service called Prowl. This will work on iOS and Android
devices. Downside it's 3 bucks from the App Store.
Setup goes as follows.
1. Create an account on their web site. www.prowlapp.com
2. Create an API Key. This will give you a key and an email address.
3. Download the app for your mobile device.
4. Subscribe to hackpgh-shop on freelists www.freelists.org/list/hackpgh-shop
with your prowl email address.
5. When you get your first notification... Don't Panic! You can you can confirm
the subscription from another email account.
6. Enjoy push notifications!
Side note: When researching this I ran into another site called pushingbox.com
this may be cool for other projects.
Twitter:
1. Sign on to twitter.
2. Do a find for @hackpgh_shop and choose follow.
3. Enjoy twitter notifications!
If you run into any issues please let me know!
Cheers!
-Chad
Sent from my iPad
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Doug Philips <dgou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Following up from tonight's meeting, we have two new experimental
> "services"...
>
> On twitter, hackpgh_shop and on freelists, hackpgh-shop.
> New member Chad's idea was instead of having to poll the website to see if
> the lights are on (and hopefully therefore the shop already has someone in
> it), why not have push events.
>
> We talked about it last week and worked out the tech side (I'll let Chad post
> links to the services we ended up not needing because they're interesting in
> their own right).
>
> You can follow the twitter account hackpgh_shop or go to
> //freelists.org/list/hackpgh-shop to sign up. That is a notification
> email list; only the shop's "robots" can post.
>
> Reminder that this is experimental. The freelists site sometimes takes a
> while to process emails, even though ioBridge sends them out right away, so
> you might find twitter to be a timelier solution if you need it real timey.
>
> The same accounts will send out alerts if the shop gets too chilly or too
> warm.
>
> At the meeting we also discussed having motion/PIR/etc. sensors that could
> detect if the shop was in use even when a game of Artemis was going on and
> we'd quenched the lights, or if there is enough daylight that we don't need
> to even turn them on.
>
> The interested parties are going to self-organize (Chad and Sarita are the
> nominal ring leaders) to come up with a prototype and once ironed out we can
> wire it up to the same robots (and hopefully webpage).
>
> -=Doug
>
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