ADadatta02·Apr 28, 2014Submission
Conversnitch is a small device that automatically tweets overheard conversations
1 points · Open discussionbrianhouse
conversnitch
Python2014–2014
brianhouse / conversnitch
conversnitch
A monitoring device
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
79GitHub stars
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Observed mentions: 2014-04-23 16:01:19 UTC to 2014-04-28 17:20:49 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 23, 12:00 | 2014-04-23 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-23 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 23, 18:00 | 2014-04-23 18:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24, 00:00 | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-24 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24, 06:00 | 2014-04-24 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-24 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24, 12:00 | 2014-04-24 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-24 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24, 18:00 | 2014-04-24 18:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25, 00:00 | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-25 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25, 06:00 | 2014-04-25 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-25 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25, 12:00 | 2014-04-25 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-25 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25, 18:00 | 2014-04-25 18:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26, 00:00 | 2014-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-26 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26, 06:00 | 2014-04-26 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-26 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26, 12:00 | 2014-04-26 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-26 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26, 18:00 | 2014-04-26 18:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 00:00 | 2014-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-27 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 06:00 | 2014-04-27 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-27 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 12:00 | 2014-04-27 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-27 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 18:00 | 2014-04-27 18:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 00:00 | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 06:00 | 2014-04-28 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 12:00 | 2014-04-28 12:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesAre there more technical details?
> It screws into and draws power from any standard bulb socket.
Interesting, is this a common Rasberry pi capability?
> Then it uploads captured audio via the nearest open Wi-Fi network
How does this part work? Are they preconfigured for nearby networks? Even most public wifi channels require basic user authentication, even it they aren't password protected.
Edit: found the github repo https://github.com/brianhouse/Conversnitch. I don't see anything regarding connecting to WIFI automatically, they must be preconfigured for each location. Also this project is 7-8 months old.
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