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twitter-tellstick.py
# Client to control electrical appliances based on Twitter activity.
# Uses Tellstick USB (using Remotestick REST API http://wiki.github.com/pakerfeldt/remotestick/ ) and
# the Twitter API.
import twitter
import time
import httplib
api = twitter.Api()
api = twitter.Api(username='moonhouse', password='secret')
prevstatus = api.GetReplies()[0].id
while 1:
statuses = api.GetReplies()
print statuses[0].id
if(prevstatus != statuses[0].id):
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1:8422")
conn.request("GET", "/devices/7/on.xml")
conn.close()
prevstatus = statuses[0].id
time.sleep(120)
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