Twine and thingspeak.com

Thomas Murray · December 2012

I just came across this post by jpreardon about using Thingspeak.com and Twine to log data. http://jpreardon.com/2012/12/22/temperature-logging-with-twine-and-thingspeak/

I followed post and and I implemented exactly what the author did. It's a very easy way for a novice like me to log data. I highly recommend reading the article.

My implementation here. It updates in real time. http://www.studioclues.com/twine/

John Watson · December 2012

I implemented this as well, but my twine only updates once, then not again until I reload rules (or change the batteries). I've logged a bug about this, but heard nothing (as usual).

David Albert · December 2012

Great solution, but requires LOTS of rules if you want to monitor temperature across a househould range (my basement could fluctuate from 50 degrees to 75 degrees across the day, so I would need about 50 separate rules to keep track of all this).

Tom McDonagh · December 2012

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the post. I was able to implement this also as described.

Best,

Tom

JP Reardon · December 2012

I'm glad that blog post was useful for you guys. Is your Twine reporting temperature changes consistently? Mine isn't, I've opened a bug report with Supermechanical, I wonder if it is just a problem with my Twine.

Patrick Basile · December 2012

Hi guys, I actually just implemented this about 15 minutes ago. I'll let you know how it goes on my Twine.

Patrick Basile · December 2012

Okay, so here is a link to my Twine temperatures: https://www.thingspeak.com/channels/4043#publicview

JP Reardon · December 2012

Mine updates more than once, but it can go long periods of time without triggering a temperature change, even though the temperature is updated on the Twine website.

Tech support responded pretty quickly for me, but with no resolution yet. Perhaps after the holidays.

Patrick Basile · December 2012

It would appear I'm seeing a similar thing, my Twine is reporting a drop in temperature to 69 now, but nothing shows up on Thingspeak since 1:49 PM EST when it was 70. Either the rule is not working, or the HTTP request isn't being fired properly...or both?

hash halim · December 2012

yes temperature reporting is inconsistent and twine team is aware.

Tom McDonagh · January 2013

I also see inconsistent reporting.

https://www.thingspeak.com/channels/3999#publicview

Thomas Murray · January 2013

I also see inconsistent reporting.

Felix Garcia · January 2013

Can someone give an example of the set of rules used.

Thanks

Francesc Comellas · January 2013

It seems that there is some sort of bug with the temperature rules. If I use ºC the rule works for "raises" but not for "falls" it seems that instead of using ºC uses ºF all the time.
This might explain inconsistent reporting.
I would recommend using internally only SI units.
I have also used thingspeak to report the position by assigning a number to each possible position. When the position is "back" twine also sends the temperature.
The rule is

WHEN orientation back THEN blink AND GET “a url”

where "a url" is
http://api.thingspeak.com/update?key=***MYKEY***&field2=4&field1=[temperature]

The two channels show at:

https://thingspeak.com/channels/4029

Kenneth Epstein · January 2013

Anything new on this reporting issue? Mine is not working either.

Jim Bacus · January 2013

I've got three Twines running together...

https://www.thingspeak.com/channels/4156#publicview

JP Reardon · January 2013

@Kenneth, here's a reporting issue update:

Christina from Twine has been helping me with my updating problems. She indicated that they have done some work on their side to improve connectivity. Also, she asked me to try a couple things to see if they help. First was to move the Twine closer to my wireless router (everything gets bad wifi reception where I had the Twine sitting). Second was to set the Twine up with a static IP address (http://help.supermechanical.com/kb/using-twine/static-ip-for-twine)

It seems that the combination of these troubleshooting steps has helped quite a bit. It's not perfect, but it is reporting much more consistently than it was in a month or so ago: https://thingspeak.com/channels/3935

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