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.
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What I'm Watching on TV - Automated Twitter Updates
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.
Wow... That's super impressive! You could probably market something like that, honestly.
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.Originally Posted by yanney
How will it know the name of the channel and the show that's on?
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.
Last edited by Mr. Hasselhoff; 08-16-2009 at 11:15 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
Eh. I guess I don't belong on the tech part of this website :P
Interesting stuff!
Why would we want this? I thought you just watched nickelodeon all day!
Nice, my verizon fios TV does that if I want it to... ( twitter or facebook)
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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