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Mr. Hasselhoff
08-16-2009, 10:12 PM
So currently I'm working on a new IR receiver that's hooked up to my wireless in my house that auto updates twitter with the current show that I'm watching. More info tomorrow.
Jason
08-16-2009, 10:14 PM
Wow... That's super impressive! You could probably market something like that, honestly.
yanney
08-16-2009, 10:31 PM
yeah, you just have to make it so it doesnt post to twitter about every channel when flipping through.

make it only post when youre watching a certain channel for like 10 seconds or more.
Mr. Hasselhoff
08-16-2009, 11:05 PM
yeah, you just have to make it so it doesnt post to twitter about every channel when flipping through.

make it only post when youre watching a certain channel for like 10 seconds or more.
Right, of course. I have dish-TV so I choose my channels from the on-screen interactive guide anyway.
Jason
08-16-2009, 11:08 PM
How will it know the name of the channel and the show that's on?
Mr. Hasselhoff
08-16-2009, 11:12 PM
Basically the IR receiver is going to capture remote control commands. I've got all the channels that I watch filtered and I setup an array with the channel numbers and the current channel selected. Then the IR receiver is going to intercept the remote commands, and once I select a channel it will update. Then it's going to parse the information via router to a page that I'll make on zomgstuff that uses PHP's curl() function to check out the directTV webste (http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/epg/theGuide.jsp), find the current show, and then use twitter's API to update the show.
Edit:
Quite simple really.
Jason
08-16-2009, 11:42 PM
Eh. I guess I don't belong on the tech part of this website :P

Interesting stuff!
thepreacha619
08-16-2009, 11:46 PM
Why would we want this? I thought you just watched nickelodeon all day!
winningfreak
08-17-2009, 12:29 AM
Nice, my verizon fios TV does that if I want it to... ( twitter or facebook)
Mr. Hasselhoff
08-17-2009, 12:48 AM
Only problem right now is that the IR pulse for the OK and UP buttons are incredibly similar and the way my software handles IR, it's saying that it's the same button. Going to have to do some tweaking

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