Twitter authentication

It has been talked about before. Twitter will STOP supporting Basic Authentication (see post June 23rd below). With help of a friend I was able to find, test and document this workaround which is really easy to implement. See the Twitter project page.

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Car Tracking

Goal Integrate Car location in HomeSeer to enable location/presence based services (heating, security, power consumption) More information is added on the Car Tracking page. How Using Xexun TK-102/TK-103 GPS tracker Application that receives and processes the received data HS acts based on defined rules Cost €80-120 Tracker €0 Software (just read more…

GPS Tracking

Even though I have not been using it because it takes time, I still wanted to post the script that’s working. Based on the Orange GPS trace service I created a script that allows you to put your car location & speed in HomeSeer devices. More info is available on read more…

Update: Database script

I have updated the Database Write script with a new feature. You can now write a device VALUE or STRING to the Database. Examples of how you could use this: Write the temperature to a DB Write free diskspace to a DB Write security status to a DB More info read more…

After 30 hrs: iPad

30 hours after the official availability of the iPad in the Netherlands I couldn’t take it anymore. I found an excuse to go near an iCenter and bought the iPad. 6 hours later the Homeseer Touch client was up and running. It is a great device! Now I need TIME read more…

Twitter Authentication going to break..

Twitter announced that they will stop supporting basic authentication starting June 30th. This will break my Twitter script! With the basic authentication that is currently being used you send a password to authenticate. Having multiple applications/websites talking to Twitter you almost need password management ;-) As an alternative they want read more…

World population

Looking at my counter scripts I noticed that the world population script wasn’t posted on this website. Now it is! You can find it in the left menu in the “Plugins/Scripts” section (‘Counters‘). It’s extremely easy to install and it will give you a HS device that contains the current read more…