General

This digitalSTROM application helps to activate Twitter messages. For example, you can have a Tweet sent if somebody rings the doorbell or if the digitalSTROM panic button is pushed.

Preconditions

The digitalSTROM application must be connected with your Twitter user account and the access rights must be granted.
The following steps are required to create the connection to your Twitter account:

  1. Click on 'Connect to Twitter' to start the authentication process.
  2. After being transferred to the Twitter website, log into your user account. If you do not yet have a user account for your home, you can create it directly under Sign up for Twitter.
  3. After logging on, Twitter prompts you to permit the application.
  4. Then you are returned to your digitalSTROM application, where you may now begin with setting up your Twitter messages.

Overview of all Twitter messages

In this view, all existing Tweets with their trigger, defined message and the conditions will be listed. In addition to the option of creating and editing the Twitter messages, you can also activate and deactivate one by one without completely deleting them from the system.

Creating or editing Twitter messages

First enter a name for your message. Define the activity that should trigger the message in the Trigger tab. Various activities can be considered as triggers:

Thereby several different presets or clicks may also serve as triggers so that e.g. a message is sent for presets 1, 2, 3 and 4. By holding the Ctrl key on your keyboard, you may select several presets at the same time.

The desired message is defined in the tab Message.
As contents, you may enter a text of up to 109 characters. Please note that the hashtag '#mydigitalSTROM' and a time stamp are also attached to your text, which is why the permissible length is restricted to 109 characters.
The Tweet that is sent is a simple text message which does not permit any formatting.

The sending of messages can also be restricted by means of conditions. Thus, a message is sent e.g. only in case of absence. The following conditions can be defined:

The messages are only sent when all defined conditions have been fulfilled; conditions are optional.

It is recommended to set up a protected Twitter account for your home which only persons you authorise can follow.
You may revoke the access to the digitalSTROM application in your Twitter user account settings at any time. Please delete the saved authorisations in this application with a click on ‚Disconnect from Twitter‘.

Every sent Tweet will be stored in a communication protocol. This can be viewed in the configurator in the Advanced View under

System -> Logging -> Browse system log files -> dss -> js -> event-twitterer.log