XPL Script: Sending Status Messages to Twitter

I stumbed cross twitter a couple of months back, and didn't think much of it.. I thought i'd just leave it to the MySpace teens to play with... Who really wants to know what i'm doing at any waking moment? (well besides my gf :o) )

Then I came across Gordon Meyer's Post on using Twitter to send status messages to his phone, email, web, widget..




BRILLIANT... Now I don't need to code something myself!.. I could even work the above widget straight onto a touchscreen interface!

So here it is.. An quick XPL script I wrote to basically relay OSD messages to a nominated Twitter.com account..

What it Does

• Piggy-backs of another OSD device and relays the message via http get to a Twitter account.

How to Install it

• Download the script and save it to the scripts folder (or create a new user script and cut & paste the code in)
• Change the user/password variables in the script to your own (well hour house's)
• Add a trigger to the device you want relay messages from (eg device script: Slimdev_Slimserv_slim1.xpl)
• Send an OSD message to that device and whalla - Twittered!

Enjoy!

XPL Script: Current Melbourne Weather

One of the first things I thought i'd try with XPL is to get some global variables set up.

A good start was some global varialbles to store the current weather. Which will obviously come in handy down the track when I look at HVAC & garden watering systems.

With most XPL development being overseas (UK mainly) - there was nothing specific that i could use.

Anyway I found a script on the XPL Forums which I based this on (only ended up using the concept & a couple of lines - but thanks clinque)

What it does

• Grabs the last weather reading via http from the corresponding city page on The Beurea of Meteorology (ie. Melbourne)
• Locates the first row of readings, and writes values into Globals for Temperature, Wind Direction & Speed, Pressure and Rainfall.
• Sends an OSD message when done (I've got a Slim Devices Squeezebox setup to recieve them)

How to Install it

• Download the script and save it to the scripts folder (or create a new user script and cut & paste the code in)
• Setup globals in XPLHAL Manager
  BOM_CURRENTTEMP
  BOM_WINDDIRECTION
  BOM_WINDSPEED
  BOM_PRESSURE
  BOM_RAIN
• Change the URL if needed (Should work on any of the location observation pages)
• Add "call Weather_Init()" at the end of xPLHal_Load() (in script xplHal_Load.xpl)
• Reload scripts (or restart xplHal) - and the globals should be populated with the current weather & the current temperature should be sent to all OSD devices.