I just re-checked, and as of 11:44am ET, it looks like things are working again. Hopefully the Supermechanical folks explain what happened here. A three day outage is pretty inexcusable IMO.
Robert - thanks for the offer. I actually used a transistor and replicated the circuit here: http://supermechanical.tumblr.com/post/36761040622/how-to-use-your-twine-breakout-board and got everything working great. I'm using Prowl for notifications,…
This is very helpful and works great for me. Thanks for sharing.
I'm still holding out hope for a pure push-alert solution for iOS that doesn't involve an email gateway eventually.
I've never used a relay in an electronic project. What type would you recommend for this use? My house's doorbell is 16V. This seems a lot simpler than attaching a piezo element to one of the chimes, which was my current plan.