Use Twitter to Control Your Home Lighting

Check out this hack from a guy named Justin Wickett (found via Hacked Gadgets), where using iLink software and an INSTEON automated lightswitch you can control lights in your home via instant messages to the Twitter microblogging service:

Control Lights with Twitter from Justin Wickett on Vimeo.

This is a pretty easy project but might not be for first-time do-it-yourselfers--get the full skinny on what you need and how to do this hack yourself here.

--Aric A.

Comments

[lighting on June 05, 2011 at 08:50 PM]

wow! This is great! I know its not easy to do, you are amazing! :)

[coach outlet store on June 30, 2011 at 12:31 AM]

now if you go to www.ucentric.com it redirects to a motorola.com page about a cable box that does just what the directv system was supposed to do. what happened there