Miscellaneous - Twine community http://minervakestner.com/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:53:49 +0000 Miscellaneous - Twine community en 100 character limit on HTTP Requests way too small http://minervakestner.com/discussion/345/100-character-limit-on-http-requests-way-too-small Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:24:11 +0000 Miscellaneous Leigh Marble 345@/discussions
Trying to set up a new rule for my Twine, and I'm currently getting a 100 character cutoff when constructing the URL for an HTTP Request. This seems rather too short!

thanks,
Leigh

]]> How does this new Vibration sensor work? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/344/how-does-this-new-vibration-sensor-work Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:03:31 +0000 Miscellaneous Chris Willson 344@/discussions
Any info on this?


]]> Going back to default settings / connect twine to new account / delete account http://minervakestner.com/discussion/338/going-back-to-default-settings-connect-twine-to-new-account-delete-account Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:16:43 +0000 Miscellaneous Guido Alphen 338@/discussions Hi,
I'm going to give my Twine to a friend, but don't want my
information linked to it. How do I clear all the account information
linked to my Twine, so it is basically a clean slate for a new owner?

This has been asked in several posts, marked as "Answered," but I can't find an answer.....Ay help much appriciated.

]]> Site Buttons not working http://minervakestner.com/discussion/336/site-buttons-not-working Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:02:37 +0000 Miscellaneous Michalis Nazos 336@/discussions
The "Add Rule" and "Save to Twine" buttons do not work, so i can not update to the latest firmware. Has anyone else this problem also or is something only on my side?

Thank You!
]]> My Twine doesn't send txt messages anymore....even http://minervakestner.com/discussion/329/my-twine-doesnt-send-txt-messages-anymore-even Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:28:56 +0000 Miscellaneous Chris Willson 329@/discussions
Anyone?
]]> My rules on my dashboard read "_e_ogRA" instaead of "Temperature" http://minervakestner.com/discussion/328/my-rules-on-my-dashboard-read-e-ogra-instaead-of-temperature Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:51:44 +0000 Miscellaneous Chris Willson 328@/discussions ]]> Enormous battery comsumption? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/177/enormous-battery-comsumption Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:04:06 +0000 Miscellaneous Marc Fleischer 177@/discussions
I received my twine last week. As I wanted to use it with the vibrating sensor to signal the end of the washing machine run, I have to play a bit until the update.
Now it only lay on the table with a simple flip-over rule set up, the batteries are signaling low-battery after only 4 days! That is much to heavy! I think the problem is, that my WiFi-network is powered down during the night. So the twine is trying to connect all the time and this drains the power.
A rule for setting the twine to sleep-mode for a period of time would solve this.

Regards, Marc]]> Customer Communications http://minervakestner.com/discussion/306/customer-communications Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:29:56 +0000 Miscellaneous Robert Pettengill 306@/discussions
I've shut mine off and come back occasionally to the forums to see if there has been some progress made that might make my Twine useful to me. However I have to dig through responses to lots of questions and it hasn't been worth the time. There isn't even any one place to find out if new firmware has been released and what it does. Frankly I've just about given up on Supermechanical and it just isn't worth the effort of going through the forums message by message.

Wouldn't it be great if Supermechanical could email or post a monthly update on their status in resolving these issues? It might at least give us a sense that someone is there who is working to resolve these issues and when we might expect them to be resolved or not. What do you all think?]]> compile error http://minervakestner.com/discussion/188/compile-error Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:01:02 +0000 Miscellaneous Jim Bacus 188@/discussions
I just want a simple temp rule #1, and then a moisture rule #2.

Feature request: a little more diagnostic info after a 'compile error' would really be helpful.

Thanks!]]> $35 breakout board, worth the cost? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/298/35-breakout-board-worth-the-cost Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:31:16 +0000 Miscellaneous Mario Juestel 298@/discussions
I initially purchased a Twine only, without any sensors and have been thinking about adding the breakout board. Is there a way to DIY this board?]]> Pebble Integration http://minervakestner.com/discussion/299/pebble-integration Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:46:06 +0000 Miscellaneous Darren Skidmore 299@/discussions
I am thinking a good one will be vibration sensing so for example If you are in the garden and somebody knocks your door your Pepple will notify you

People's thoughts for other useful ideas]]> Setup ASSUMES a pc with wi-fi http://minervakestner.com/discussion/119/setup-assumes-a-pc-with-wi-fi Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:42:43 +0000 Miscellaneous Guy Marsden 119@/discussions Twine very slow to be updated with new rules http://minervakestner.com/discussion/234/twine-very-slow-to-be-updated-with-new-rules Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:45:58 +0000 Miscellaneous Darren Skidmore 234@/discussions Anybody else found this issue?]]> Does Twine support WPA2-PSK with AES algorithm? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/289/does-twine-support-wpa2-psk-with-aes-algorithm Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:34:26 +0000 Miscellaneous Devin Mancuso 289@/discussions Don't assume the supplied batteries are charged.... http://minervakestner.com/discussion/111/dont-assume-the-supplied-batteries-are-charged Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:03:55 +0000 Miscellaneous don mcintyre 111@/discussions
All is well, just doodling with it at this point.]]> Did you need to configure any port forwarding when setting up your Twine? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/288/did-you-need-to-configure-any-port-forwarding-when-setting-up-your-twine Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:53:42 +0000 Miscellaneous Devin Mancuso 288@/discussions
I can complete the setup process, with the Twine even reporting that it has successfully connected to my network. If I check my router's DHCP table (Billion 7800n) it shows Twine with an internal IP. However, it can't be pinged and refuses to work; it doesn't appear in my dashboard.

I saw in the troubleshooting documentation: "To communicate with the Internet. Twine needs to be able to get through on UDP port 32887 and TCP port 32888 outbound. Please check your firewall settings on your router and any other upstream filters that may be in place."

Did anyone need to configure any ports on their router to get Twine to successfully setup?

]]> Celsius as default on web page http://minervakestner.com/discussion/287/celsius-as-default-on-web-page Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:33:48 +0000 Miscellaneous Barry Caplan 287@/discussions log notification to google sheet using google form http://minervakestner.com/discussion/284/log-notification-to-google-sheet-using-google-form Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:17:10 +0000 Miscellaneous Jay Erickson 284@/discussions
1) go to gdocs and create a Form

2) edit the form and add a "question" of type "text" for every dimension you want to log

3) view the live form and look at the source code and look for something like: form action="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/formResponse?formkey=dFVLemRNVS1kNmpIR0JQWC01UmtXOFE6MQ&ifq" method="POST" id="ss-form"

4) grab the url for the action

5) look for something like: input type="text" name="entry.0.single" value="" class="ss-q-short" id="entry_0" for each question

6) append "&" + the name of the form element + "=" to the action url. like so: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/formResponse?formkey=dFVLemRNVS1kNmpIR0JQWC01UmtXOFE6MQ&ifq&entry.0.single=

7) cut and past that into a url shortener

8) create rule with http call and throw that url shorty in there

you could also multiple params/questions to the url before you shorten is like which twine it is or what the trigger/rule is

this didn't end up helping me on my quest but it works. i want a nice RESTful api i can poll to get data or have a time-based rule option and not a threshold-based rule type only

loving the hardware though!]]> Configurable host needed http://minervakestner.com/discussion/26/configurable-host-needed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:04:22 +0000 Miscellaneous Chris Cragg 26@/discussions 1. The wsdl for the webservice being called by the twine device (assuming it is a webservice).
2. The ability to configure on the device the url to call.

It my testing goes well, I plan on adding lots of these devices. I'd rather be responsible for my own data collection/aggregation and data processing.]]> Can I sell my Twine? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/270/can-i-sell-my-twine Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:06:16 +0000 Miscellaneous John Zimmerman 270@/discussions Magnet sensor response http://minervakestner.com/discussion/272/magnet-sensor-response Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:00:02 +0000 Miscellaneous Alan Page 272@/discussions One way to get iPhone Push Notifications from Twine http://minervakestner.com/discussion/146/one-way-to-get-iphone-push-notifications-from-twine Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:35:42 +0000 Miscellaneous Fabian Raygosa 146@/discussions http://www.prowlapp.com

You install the app on your iphone. Then use their API to send pushes and you get the notification on your iphone.
What I did was create a simple php web app that used prowl API. So when a twine rule was triggered, I called this web page, the web page called the API with my custom message and prowl pushes the message to my iphone as a notification. Give it a try.

Example Image in notification center:
http://i.imgur.com/KBBYT.png

I'm sure there are other ways, but this one seemed good for now. I am just trying to avoid text to my phone ;)]]> Appears to be nonfunctional http://minervakestner.com/discussion/259/appears-to-be-nonfunctional Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:19:52 +0000 Miscellaneous Jeff Carpenter 259@/discussions Twine connected to USB generates connection error http://minervakestner.com/discussion/262/twine-connected-to-usb-generates-connection-error Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:06:56 +0000 Miscellaneous Bert Veldman 262@/discussions Is there a solution for this (besides using a mains2usb plug)?]]> Temperature sensor is off by 5-10 degrees (F) http://minervakestner.com/discussion/233/temperature-sensor-is-off-by-5-10-degrees-f Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:30:41 +0000 Miscellaneous Dan Bodenstein 233@/discussions I have a non-twine related thermostat. Is anyone else experiencing this?
]]> A serious question: should email providers' "Junk" filters be allowed to block Twine messages ? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/245/a-serious-question-should-email-providers-junk-filters-be-allowed-to-block-twine-messages Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:45:30 +0000 Miscellaneous Gerry Mueller 245@/discussions In the case of my primary email provider (Symaptico, which is a shell on the MSN Hotmail platform, I have been able to add @supermechanical.net to my "safe" senders list. (Which raises another question, why do I have to specify as safe senders or domains that cannot possible do harm to Sympatico, MSN or Hotmail by delivering my mail; I did not pay these entities to protect me from my mail, but to DELIVER my mail!)
And then there is Apple, aka @me.com, @icloud.com, etc, who will not deliver my Twine messages to me, and do not provide any mechanism for me to specify either my Twine's name, or @supermechanical.net, or both, as safe.
Think for a moment, if Canada Post, or the US Post Office, decided to allow a clerk, with criteria that were secret and vague, to decide that some of your mail should be shredded without notification, some should be held but you would be told so but then couldn't actually get it, and some would be delivered, but some of it marked as BAD mail and you would have to get it from some-place away from your normal mailbox; what sort of uproar would that cause.
Why isn't this happening with email?

Here is a note from me to John Kestner, who has worked valiantly on getting email through to me and many others, but maybe is working on the wrong end of the problem.
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You will be glad to know (but not very much) that as far as the Apple system is concerned, you have managed to get past the 1st two levels of their e-mail filtering. Mail from my Twine now does get put through to my @me.com address (and I assume also to @iCloud.com, etc.) account, but only to be sent to the "Junk" folder, hence not sent on to my iPhone, iPad, or Outlook client. On the iCloud email web client, I can see the email in the Junk folder, and I can select it, and click the Not Junk button, and indeed, it gets moved to my Inbox and pushed to my iDevices and Outlook. But, that does not add either the sender, my Twine's ID, or supermechanical.net, to any safe sender list, as there does not appear to be any such thing in Apple thinking.

Trolling around on Apple support, I learn, with some effort, because they are not exactly open about their policies, that they categorize email in 4 ways:

1. - so very dangerous, that they simply delete it without any other action;
2. - dangerous enough that they delete it, but at least send a notification to the recipient, who nevertheless can't get it;
3. - dangerous, but considered safe enough that they will put it into the recipients Junk folder, but, they have to access it there on the web, and mark it as Not Junk, but that does not do anything to change the actions for further email from the same sender or domain;
4 - safe; so we'll let the recipient read it by sending it to wherever they have said they want to see email.

OK, that got a bit heavy. But, that is the meta-issue here

All this for protection from terrible things - like what? Apple does not give any information about their spam algorithms or parameters used, at least not that anyone in the non-Apple world can see.

Meanwhile, as one trolls around Apple support forums, one gets complaints from people who do not receive receipts for read emails sent to domains that are legitimate, but somehow don't pass Apple standards. Others complain of important email that never arrives. More others complain of email arriving, being replied to, being replied to by the recipient, but that reply never arrives. The whole filtering system that Apple uses, from reports, is arbitrary, inconsistent, and chaotic

John, you're a techie, and you are trying to get a product out, and a company going, but getting in the way of that is a big company big brother mentality that has no place on the Internet (and it is not just Apple, it is also Microsoft, who on the Hotmail platform, were also blocking Twine messages, except there they at least have the option of letting you add senders and domains to a safe list -Apple doesn't even allow that).

I'm just a Canadian retired guy who likes to play with techie things, but even up here we have what we call Charter rights, one of which is what you down there call Freedom of Speech. I am not actually sure what that defines in either of our countries, but I somehow think that freedom does not allow someone to arbitrarily set up a filter that stops me from hearing what someone else speaks, Even more, I think it does not allow someone to set up a filter that stops me from hearing a message from a device that I own, and that I have asked to receive because that message is important to me, just because it is not acceptable to some mechanism.

Up here, I'd call up my member of Parliament, and ask him to take this further, as an issue affecting my rights as a citizen.

Do you have a local member of Congress, that might do something like that?

OK, that got a little more heavy, but that is the meta-issue here. If devices like Twine, and a lot of the future Internet, are going to succeed, we can't have intermediaries of Internet messages decide what information should be transmitted, and what should not.

And, think for one minute, if either the US Post Office, or Canada Post, went into a mode where some clerk decided, based on some unpublished criteria, which mail would simply be shredded, which mail would be retained and the recipient notified and asked to defend why they should get it, but the can't, and which would be delivered, how much of an uproar that would cause?
]]> How does twine work? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/244/how-does-twine-work Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:38:04 +0000 Miscellaneous Evans Arnold 244@/discussions Notifications? http://minervakestner.com/discussion/172/notifications Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:22:33 +0000 Miscellaneous Gerry Mueller 172@/discussions Stuck at "Trouble connecting to the network?" http://minervakestner.com/discussion/241/stuck-at-trouble-connecting-to-the-network Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:32:48 +0000 Miscellaneous Angela Tay 241@/discussions
Any help would be appreciated! :)]]> Not sending email or Text intermently http://minervakestner.com/discussion/232/not-sending-email-or-text-intermently Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:11:30 +0000 Miscellaneous Brian Peat 232@/discussions My question is why sometimes my rules are not followed. I have the moisture sensor set when wet to text & email. This works sometimes and sometimes does not. Always the light on the device is triggered and the dashboard shows the change but it seems most of the time I do not get a notification. I have tried to figure out why it will sometimes and not other times but have not had any success in understanding.
I have also used the other items like breakout board & magnetic and have same hit & miss results.
I know the email & text are correct addresses as I sometimes get messages when I do testing.
I have looked through the forum discussions and don't see exactly this issue.
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