Tag Archives: Tweet-A-Watt

A Nimbits Gadget: Minding the Data Store

Posted on May 21, 2011 by dwatts

Updated June 4: I’ve corrected a couple of things, as marked in blue. Also, developers might be interested in my follow-up blog entry A Nimbits Gadget: Programmer’s Show And Tell Updated Dec 3/11: I fixed a broken feature: autoscaling of … Continue reading →

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Tweet-A-Watt: Beyond the Twitter, Part Deux

Posted on March 28, 2011 by dwatts

This article continues my earlier post about web-based services for monitoring your electricity usage using Tweet-A-Watt. Last time I focused on Pachube – today I’ll explain the process of connecting a Tweet-A-Watt to Nimbits. Nimbits Overview Nimbits has a lot … Continue reading →

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Tweet-A-Watt: Beyond the Twitter

Posted on March 10, 2011 by dwatts

As I’ve written before, I really like the idea behind Adafruit’s Tweet-A-Watt project, which uses a modified Kill-A-Watt box and an Xbee transmitter to create an inexpensive home energy monitor. I’ve been running one 24/7 for over a year, and … Continue reading →

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Surviving the Twitter OAuthcalypse with Tweet-A-Watt

Posted on September 22, 2010 by dwatts

When Twitter recently made the OAuth API mandatory for 3rd party applications, the resulting OAuthcalypse silenced the tweets of a lot of code. Among those affected was Adafruit‘s innovative Tweet-A-Watt system, which interfaces with a low cost Kill-A-Watt monitor to … Continue reading →

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