March 3, 2025
Clean Up Tines Automation Event Data with Event Transform Actions
This Tines story will setup a Tines Event Transform action and demonstrate how to standardize and clean up data from preceding actions in a Tines automation story using the Event Transform action set to Message mode. This continues demonstrating how I mainly use the Event Transform Action in Tines automation stories from the previous post Tines – Payload Formatting.
Read MoreProper Tines Payload Formatting to Fix Automation Issues
This demonstration will detail some of the basics of plain code vs builder view in Tines payloads, as well as showing how important using the proper formatting can be for determining how the data gets processed.
Read MoreMasterclass Site Overview
Although I had not personally designed or hosted this masterclass site, some of the theming and integration into the original DJ hub site was custom, and I believe warrants recognition. Built off the Teachable platform, heavy theming, customizations, and domain linking was implemented to make a near seamless integration with the hub to where one […]
Read MoreTines / Splunk – Automated Customized Alerts
Simple overview: This Tines/Splunk project receives alerts from Splunk running on a server crawling through access logs, user event logs, and nginx logs based on pre-set thresholds or events to trigger the alert. Although Splunk provides adequate alerting actions out of the box, I decided to integrate their webhook alert function with Tines. Not only […]
Read MoreTines – Command Based Inputs Project
Simple overview: Command based input (i.e. chatbot) to receive specific results based on the command input. Currently works for receiving the most recent relevant Google search news result for the keyword(s) you supply or a command to receive a current stock market quote of the supplied stock ticker. This is basically just a “for fun” […]
Read MoreTines – IoT Project
Simple overview: Receive notifications to phone via HTTPS requests/webhooks from an arduino controller paired with an internet/gps sim shield. Potentially remote control the device via reverse method. This Tines Automation project started out as a simple project using IFTTT’s applet service. The original applet service was simply integrating smart home control with 3rd party […]
Read MoreTines – News Updates
Simple overview: This story is basically the same conceptually as the server status story with the core difference that this automatically receives any news posted to a specific/specified Google alert RSS feed for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and […]
Read MoreTines Server Status Updates
Simple overview: This story automatically receives any updates posted to specific/specified RSS feeds for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and collect snippet information. The story will then proceed to send that snippet data to my choice (in this case […]
Read MoreTines Email Template Generator
After completing class project 4. I had moved on to what would technically be my 3rd project with Tines: Programmatically personalizing emails based off templates. At the core, this Tines story takes a pre-defined email template and will go through and personalize it per intended recipient (including names, dates, specifics, attachments, CC addresses, BCC addresses, […]
Read MoreCasino War Card Game Mobile App
This was the second official programming anything I really had done, and the idea came about after creating the Blackjack Basic Strategy Trainer app. I played a “Casino War” card game in a casino once and wanted to play it again at home for both fun and theory testing purposes… Same as the Strategy App, […]
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