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Minimum Temp

Nicholas Johnson — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:45:54 +0000

How cold is safe for twine to go? I have an outdoor application but for it to work twine needs to survive as cold as -40c, do we have any idea if it will be ok that cold?

Another Product that Works with Twine

m sweaton — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:12:36 +0000

As an early user of Twine for a project that I was developing, I'm
offering those that have Twines a free upgrade for your Twine. My
product is a HVAC filter monitor which you can read more about on our
website (www.airflow1.com). The CFM-GM Clogged Filter Monitor has an
option to connect directly to the breakout board for Twine, you then set
rules to send yourself a text message when the switch closes to check
your air filter.

I've had this running now for over a year and it works great!

Sorry
for informing everyone about it here and on other discussion channels
but hope you take the time to at least see what else the Twine can do!

SMS notification for free

Stefan Ries — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:59:27 +0000

Like others in this forum I'm not amused by the new SMS pay per month model. Clear that they need to earn money but I don't think it's the appropriate model for this community.

However making use of IFTTT.com does the same for you, but for free (at least in the US and for some other providers worldwide). Simply make twine to send a mail to IFTTT and create a receipt launching a SMS.

How do I attach an external wifi antenna?

Arthur Gleckler — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:34:35 +0000

I'm trying to use my TWINE in my garage, but my wifi signal is too weak there, so I'd like to attach an external wifi antenna. (Attaching a USB cable, as some people have done, didn't help.) I see that the circuit board has what appears to be an attachment point for an antenna, but I'm not sure where to get a compatible antenna cable and connector.

Has anyone succeeded in installing an external antenna, and if so, did it help, and where did you get the cable?

Thanks.

Available PHP scripts with logging? (mysql?)

Aron B — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:48:15 +0000

Im trying to find a simple PHP script with db possibileties to logg HTTP requests to my twine.

Id like it to send a temperature variable to it every hour and for it to logg it.

Im having a hard time finding a script like this available, any ideas?

Changed Routers and Twine Stops Talking

Glenn Miller — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:47:21 +0000

Upgraded to an Amped router to get extended range on several devices and the Twine seemed to setup okay, but it hasn't communicated data since the setup. Any ideas?

twine account

mohamed elmehdi khalil — Sat, 24 May 2014 09:04:14 +0000

i have delete my rules from my account and when i want to reconnet the twine on my account it said that :

I've already been claimed

This Twine is connected to another account. If you own that account, you can sign in now to finish the setup process.

Can't Get Passed - 80 Seconds Looking for Twine

Michael Kenney — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:47:05 +0000

I get all the way thru the setup and through the 80 seconds screen but I can't seem to get the unit recognized. It's a brand new unit and batteries. Any ideas are appreciated

Wrong [temperature] in http-request

Robert Plum — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:06:29 +0000

I figured out, that my http-request always tell me its 25°C but the e-mails send out state the "real" temperature...
Has anyone else noticed such a problem?

What url's does twine need access to. A bit more info about how it works..?

Sapient Nitro — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:36:41 +0000

Hello, in order to get the network manager to allow our twine access to the internet he needs to know what ports etc it uses (found that in another help topic) and also what urls it's communicating with. I'm finding it hard to get this information, and couldn't see any info on the web.

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!

Celsius as default on web page

Barry Caplan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:33:48 +0000

Is there a way to change the default temperature unit on the web page from Fahrenheit to Celsius?

FAQ's

Paul Freeman — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:02:37 +0000

Hey Supermechanical-ites,

Can you please put up a FAQ's page?

It seems that many of the questions posted in the discussions could be summarised quite easily into a FAQ's section. I'd expect that would save a lot of workload for you answering the same questions. And it should be a pretty simple thing to incorporate to your web page. It would also simplify peoples searches if they can find official answers quickly, rather than sifting through opinions.

Rules display is weird today

Ken Robinson — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:01:12 +0000

When I went to my rules display today, every "when" condition shows "WHEN tzoffset" instead of the real condition. They still seem to work.

Notifications stopped working

Wayne MacLaurin — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:51:52 +0000

Hi folks...

I've got a Twine doing duty as a remote sump pump monitoring tool. Its happy connected to the wireless network and the Twine dashboard tells me its checked in regularly. A couple weeks ago, we changed the batteries and ever since, it seem stop have stopped sending notifications of any sort. The dashboard looks right... temperature ad orientation look right and the moisture sensor is showing dry.

I'm using an AllThingsSpeak api call to graph the cycles of the sump pump (simple shake test).. pressing the "test url" button does generate a blip on the graph so I know that part is working.

The sump has never NOT run at least once a day in 16 years so I would be astonished if it hasn't really cycled at least once in the last couple weeks. Notifications are setup to send both an email and graph the incident.

I did notice that my rules page looks wonky.. I have no idea what "ZLxvleTK" is ... Any ideas ?

Expansion of variables

John Oram — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:12:25 +0000

When sending a text/email/tweet, I see [orientation], [temperature] and [shaking/still] as variables that I can insert.

Are there any others? [mg] comes to mind.

Why won't my Twine work?

Sean Clark — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:04:10 +0000

It only worked for a day and now I can't do anything with it. When I flip it over the light either flashes once or stays on for a maximum of 4 seconds and isn't detectable as a wifi network. Is this easy to sort or just a crap item?

If you do another hardware version...

David Abigt — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:05:24 +0000

Might I suggest making the external port do A to D? Would REALLY open up the options. For example light level not just light or dark.

Decrease update time

iH smartizer — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:52:55 +0000

Hi everyone!

I've been working for two months with twine and i'm wondering about if it would be possible to reduce Twine, update time to, for example, 10 minutes only.

Thanks

Is there a way to delete a twitter account?

Butch Mayhew — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:51:32 +0000

I created a test twitter account and verified everything was working the way I wanted it to, and now added a 2nd twitter account but I am unable to delete the original twitter account. I was able to de-authorize access on the twitter side, but on the twine side the account is still there and my 2nd (new main account) is listed in the drop down. I want to remove my first account created. Any way to currently do that?

Bug with magswitch HTTP requests

Aashay Desai — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:07:58 +0000

This is pretty easy to reproduce with the help of RequestBin (http://requestb.in/), an online webhook tool.

I made a temp RequestBin and checked out what happens if I close my magswitch.

HTTP request: http://requestb.in/wzhrtkwz?o=[orientation]&t=[temperature]&m=[open/closed]

Actual request result:

m [open/closed]
o bottom
t 76

Notice that the "m" value is literally [open/closed]. It should be either open or closed!

Power

Sabrina LeBlanc — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:41 +0000

My twine was working great under battery power. Then I plugged it in using a micro USB leftover from an old cell phone. The white light comes on when I plug it in (for a second) but the twine is no longer communicating with the router and the dashboard says it hasn't heard from it. Any tips?

Sensing low voltages (Thermocouples)

Kellen Westman — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:15:53 +0000

I'm considering using my Twine to measure the exhaust gas temperatures in my wood stove, so I can hopefully be notified via text message when it needs to be stoked (or when my roommate has stoked it for me)! In an effort to keep things simple, I am hoping to use a simple thermocouple circuit that will produce only very low voltages to be measured by my Twine via the breakout box. The voltages produced by the thermocouple are only about 40 µV per °C, within a range of 0-800°C. I only need a resolution of about 10°C, so hopefully I'd be able to have Twine accurately distinguish a difference of about 0.0004V at a time, between 0 and 0.03V. Is this possible? Or will I need to increase the complexity of this to have my voltages range between 0 and 3V? I guess I could pull out my old EE texts and figure out how to do it, probably using resistors or something (I'm a little rusty).

Also note that the thermocouple will produce voltage, so I don't plan on using the 3V supply in the breakout box as a part of this circuit.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Get spammed every time I update the programming..

John Adler — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:43:04 +0000

Seems like every time that I change and update the programming every action gets executed for every condition (so I get a bunch of emails and SMSs).
Its helpful because it acknowledges that the Twine received the updated program, but its also a nuisance because of how many messages there are.
I assume that this is a known "feature" and is being worked for the next version?

Another Product that Works with Twine

m sweaton — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:10:44 +0000

As an early user of Twine for a project that I was developing, I'm offering those that have Twines a free upgrade for your Twine. My product is a HVAC filter monitor which you can read more about on our website (www.airflow1.com). The CFM-GM Clogged Filter Monitor has an option to connect directly to the breakout board for Twine, you then set rules to send yourself a text message when the switch closes to check your air filter.

I've had this running now for over a year and it works great!

Sorry for informing everyone about it here and on other discussion channels but hope you take the time to at least see what else the Twine can do!

How long do rules "live" in Twine's memory?

Todd Andrews — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:19:25 +0000

Is there anything that can clear out the rules? For example, going through the twinesetup.com process? What about removing the batteries (or dead batteries) for an extended period?

How do I tell if there are rules saved in the Twine's memory?

I'm trying to figure out if the reason rules aren't sending me email notifications is because the Twine's memory got wiped. For now I guess the only thing I can do is to keep re-saving the rules to my Twine.

Need help making breakout rules!

Kurt Peeters — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:47:47 +0000

Hi, I connected my twine with a breakout board to my home domotica system. I made a rule when breakout board is closed for one second then twitter 'closed for one second). I made another rule when breakout board is closed for 5 seconds then TWITTER 'closed for 5 second's. Now when I close the breakout board for 5 seconds i get both TWEETS. I can't figure out how to make the rules with the AND comment so that I can get different TWEETS for different events in my home. Is it possible? Can anyone give me an example of how I should make the rule?

Rules disappeared?

Ryan O'Dwyer — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:22:36 +0000

Hi,

I logged in tonight to check my rules as I wasn't receiving emails about the humidity sensor and vibration, and all my rules have gone, the temperature changed back to F, and my vibration threshold went back to 1000g(default??)

Any one else had the same?

Thanks,

Ryan

Moisture Sensor Stops Being Recognized

Paul Packbier — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:57:36 +0000

Out-of-town a week ago, the Twine started alerting me at 5:00 in the morning that the washing machine was overflowing. Anxious calls to me wife confirmed this and I enthusiastically proclaimed "my investment paid off!' Alas, one week later, a leak again, but no alarm ... What happened? Batteries are good, Twine's on wifi and reporting temp, motion, but no moisture ... Unplugging the moisture sensor and plugging it back in, drying it off did not work, but taking the batteries out and restarting it did. This morning (no leak), but a quick online check showed the moisture sensor missing again. Again I needed to restart the unit. Any ideas?!

Establishing a connection when wi-fi is down.

Bill Spencer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:55:03 +0000

Another wi-fi device on the market had a problem when there was a power failure and the device continued to poll the router trying to connect and eventually depleted its battery, preventing it from connecting after power was restored. Have the twine designers thought about this?

I suggest that in the case of longer than expected delays in establishing a connection, twine should switch to making less frequent attempts to connect, perhaps in a progressive fashion. This mode would be suspended when a connection was reestablished, or by flipping twine over.

Monitoring temp in cooler outside

John Hoefer — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:23:31 +0000

We just had my daughters birthday party and have an excess of food and a small fridge. Fortunately it's cold outside. So I loaded up the cooler with the excess food ans am using Twine to watch that it doesn't freeze. I figure the cooler should keep the cold out as well as it keeps the cold in. Twine is there in case I'm wrong.