Over the last two weeks or so, I have been working on a Windows program in Visual C# 2015. I have called it Tweet Remote Control. This program connects to your Twitter account and accesses your tweets. When you post a specific tweet that the program deems a command, it performs a function on the computer the program is installed on. It then deletes your tweet and tweets on your behalf to let you know of what is happening.
Over the last week, I have updated Tweet Remote Control to version 1.2 as it stands now. Currently, the program is able to restart your computer, shut down your computer, close and restart TeamViewer on your computer, close your ASCOM roof and park your ASCOM mount. These are the only five functions it can perform at the time of this blog post, but it is pretty complete when it comes to acting as an inconspicuous safety backup. It is particularly useful to people with their equipment hosted remotely, who have no immediate, physical access to the remote computer.
I wrote this program after realising how potentially problematic it could be if I lost TeamViewer remote control access to my computer, for whatever reason, and did not have someone to do something physically on my computer. As it stands, with Tweet Remote Control installed, I have peace of mind that I can probably recover my TeamViewer connection by either closing the restarting TeamViewer or restarting the computer entirely. If all else fails, I can also close my roof and park my mount. At the very minimum, this protects my equipment from potential collisions and from the elements.
If you would like to learn more about Tweet Remote Control and perhaps try it out yourself, please follow this link to the dedicated page for it. The page dedicated for it is under the new Downloads page. This page contains information regarding installing and using Tweet Remote Control, as well as a version history and a download link to the latest version (straight from my public Dropbox folder).
I wrote this program after realising how potentially problematic it could be if I lost TeamViewer remote control access to my computer, for whatever reason, and did not have someone to do something physically on my computer. As it stands, with Tweet Remote Control installed, I have peace of mind that I can probably recover my TeamViewer connection by either closing the restarting TeamViewer or restarting the computer entirely. If all else fails, I can also close my roof and park my mount. At the very minimum, this protects my equipment from potential collisions and from the elements.
If you would like to learn more about Tweet Remote Control and perhaps try it out yourself, please follow this link to the dedicated page for it. The page dedicated for it is under the new Downloads page. This page contains information regarding installing and using Tweet Remote Control, as well as a version history and a download link to the latest version (straight from my public Dropbox folder).