Gordon Meyer has an interesting blog post on how he’s using Twitter.com to pass his home Automation notifications to his various locations through the web, email and text messages.
“I’ve been experimenting with using Twitter for automated notifications, and so far I really like the advantages it offers over other techniques. First, Twitter supports several methods of delivering messages (which are called “tweets” in Twitter-speak). A tweet can be received through SMS to your cell phone, through several instant messaging services, by going to a web page, or by using specialized apps such as the fantastic Twitteriffic… the best thing about this flexibility is that the recipient chooses how they want to receive their tweets, and changing this setting is easily done “on the fly.”
The sender of the message doesn’t need to know which delivery mechanism is currently active, it’s all handled by Twitter. This simplicity is a boon for home notifications which usually either take a shotgun method and send notifications to several places at once (home, office, and cell phone email), or try to guess (based on schedule of day or other data) what the best destination might be. letting the recipient identify where they want to receive messages, at any given moment, makes delivery much simpler and much more reliable.
Finally, Twitter has a easy HTTP-based interface for sending messages. instead of having to script an email program, or an SMS utility, sending a tweet is as easy as having your home automation system open a URL.”
Source: oreilly.com Related: My Robot
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