01-08-2016, 04:25 PM
A little update on the web access.
I've got the web alerts sorted out, these are the ones I plan to add for starters. I won't have them all added for a while as I'm going on a holiday soon, today I only have the external IP change working. I should have the equipment related ones working but the parameters won't be done because the GUI needs a bunch of work.
![[Image: web_alerts.jpg]](https://www.robo-tank.ca/pictures/web_alerts.jpg)
There is some setup required to get them working, I'll have a pictured tutorial ready when its ready. It's not hard and in the end it works the smoothest that's why I've chosen it.
The alerts are sent from the arduino as a tweet but you receive them in an RSS feed. It basically requires you to setup up a twitter and google account, using google scripts a one time script is run which works with twitter. This puts all the tweets from the controller into an RSS feed which allows you to receive almost instant alerts on any device. You never need to visit your twitter or google account once its setup or need to be logged in. You simply download any RSS reader program to see the alerts. I'm using Feed Notifier on my computer and RSS reader on my android, when an alert goes off my phone makes noise and vibrates and shows a small RSS symbol at the top and my computer has an alert hover over my clock and stays there until I close it. Anyone who follows you on twitter can also receive push notification on there phone or computer when the controller sends out an alert. The only setup required on the controller side is adding a twitter authorization code to a text file.
I've got the web alerts sorted out, these are the ones I plan to add for starters. I won't have them all added for a while as I'm going on a holiday soon, today I only have the external IP change working. I should have the equipment related ones working but the parameters won't be done because the GUI needs a bunch of work.
There is some setup required to get them working, I'll have a pictured tutorial ready when its ready. It's not hard and in the end it works the smoothest that's why I've chosen it.
The alerts are sent from the arduino as a tweet but you receive them in an RSS feed. It basically requires you to setup up a twitter and google account, using google scripts a one time script is run which works with twitter. This puts all the tweets from the controller into an RSS feed which allows you to receive almost instant alerts on any device. You never need to visit your twitter or google account once its setup or need to be logged in. You simply download any RSS reader program to see the alerts. I'm using Feed Notifier on my computer and RSS reader on my android, when an alert goes off my phone makes noise and vibrates and shows a small RSS symbol at the top and my computer has an alert hover over my clock and stays there until I close it. Anyone who follows you on twitter can also receive push notification on there phone or computer when the controller sends out an alert. The only setup required on the controller side is adding a twitter authorization code to a text file.
