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BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

You're reading from  BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783986026
Pages 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
Profile icon Rodolfo Giometti

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Setting up the software


After the hardware has been set up, most of the job is done; to finish our job, we need to first install a tool to get access to our Twitter account, and then we have to add a mechanism to call it each time a successful identification process is accomplished. So, in the following sections I'm going to show how to install and correctly set up a command line tool to communicate with Twitter and then how to call it in three different programming languages for three different identification systems.

To simplify the project a bit, we can use a static list of known IDs stored in each program, but you can understand that this list can be easily managed by an external database. So, I leave this implementation as an exercise for you.

Setting up the Twitter utility

The utility I'm going to use to get access to a Twitter account is named with the single character t. The t program, as reported on its home page, derives from the Twitter SMS commands:

The CLI takes syntactic cues from...

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