{"id":3182,"date":"2008-05-20T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:30:58","slug":"control-lights-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/control-lights-with-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Room Lights On and Off with Twitter! [Videos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can turn your room lights on and off remotely by sending a text message from your mobile phone to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>! if you thought Twitter was only a Microblogging platform, think again.<\/p>\n<p>Justin used Bob Paauwe&#8217;s iLink INSTEON software and Twitter to network his cell phone with his house&#8217;s electrical system with the goal to implement this on a larger scale at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarthome.duke.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke University Smart Home<\/a>. And it worked!<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Control Lights with Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1025711?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Twitter can be used for strange tasks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/now-plants-can-twitter-for-water\/\">watering plants<\/a> and of course for simpler tasks like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qot\" rel=\"noopener\">following us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can turn your room lights on and off remotely by sending a text message from your mobile phone to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,111],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-social-media","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}