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Techlab power usage to Facebook |
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Written by Stanford Mings
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 07:11 |
This project was thought up as way to keep an eye of my power usage and let the world know when I am working. The system uses the following
- Hardware
- Software
- Services
- Facebook (Duh!)
- posterous.com
- Gmail.com
Setup
- Connect Wattsup Pro to whatever equpment you want to monitor
- Connect the supplied USB cable to your PC
- Setup new account
- Gmail
- Posterous
- Configure account with new Gmail account
- Configure Autopost feature to update Profile
- Install Wattsup Linux Utility
- Write Perl/Shell Scripts to do the following
- Poll Wattsup via the USB Port to test
- Email results to
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- Configure Crontab Job to run scripts
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:32 |