PachTweet
Send Twitter Direct Messages to update a Pachube feed. You must, of course, have a Twitter account to do this! This is great for controlling things via Twitter: just have your device/arduino/environment listen to the Pachube feed for its instructions.

Please note, Pachube.com privacy options will be introduced in early 2009, but for the moment all Pachube feeds are public - however since you will send all your Twitter commands by DM, no commands will be visible to the public. All commands take a minute or two to process.

  1. Create a Pachube manual feed.
    You can do that here. Remember the feed ID.
    e.g. for the feed found at 'www.pachube.com/feeds/1353' the feed ID is 1353
  2. Follow Twitter user @pachtweet
    You can do that by tweeting this message:
    follow pachtweet
  3. Send a public tweet to @pachtweet with the word "connect".
    You only need to do this once. You can do that by tweeting this message:
    @pachtweet connect
    You will receive a private direct message within a minute or two to confirm that it was successful. WAIT for confirmation before proceeding!
  4. Give @pachtweet your Pachube API key, using the 'key' command.
    You only need to do this once. Send a DM to @pachtweet. It should say something like:
    key YOUR_PACHUBE_API_KEY
  5. You can now send Direct Message commands to @pachtweet!
    Remember these should be sent by DM, not in public!
    • set feed_id data
      Update your feed by sending a DM that says 'set' followed by the feed ID, and the CSV data for the feed (comma-separate the variables for each datastream). Remember this will take a minute or two to register. Something like:
      set 1353 2,4,6,7,any text you like
      ... would set feed 1353's datastreams to equal '2', '4', '6', '7' & 'any_text_you_like'
    • More commands coming soon...
    6. Let us know how you get on, and whether there are any other features you would like!