Home Security with a Webcam and Twitter


	Home Security with a Webcam and Twitter

Sheroug

6-19-2008 6:36 PM

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Sheroug says:

Very cool. I'm going to give this a try.

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6-19-2008 6:44 PM

ericskiff

that's awesome! I didn't realize the twitter API was so easy to call from the command line

6-19-2008 6:54 PM

Sheroug

Neither did I!

6-20-2008 5:51 AM

ofcapri

Sheroug - Seems interesting. tks
Please keep us posted on the results.

6-20-2008 12:36 PM

Sheroug

Will do

I'm having a tad bit of a problem right now, maybe it's because I'm running ubuntu on a virtual machine, even though I don't think it should cause any problems. Anyway, I'll mess more with it and come back with better results.

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<DIV>wget -O - --user=YOURUSERNAME --password=YOURPASSWORD --post-data=”status=Motion Detected! Check Immediately” https:<SPAN>//twitter.com/statuses/update.xml </SPAN></DIV>
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