Things that keeps me awake at night…
Well, having a hard time to sleep I’ve got lots of time to think and last night I merged my PVR system with OSPi. Just in my mind that is! 😆
I’m running a PVR system called MediaPortal with a TV server called ARGUS TV. To make a long story short(er)… ARGUS has the ability to connect to MSN/Skype and you can chat with the system…
ARGUS has it’s own MSN/Skype account and I have it added to my contacts. Whenever a TV recording starts or ends it will text me via MSN/Skype. I can also ask about ‘status’ and it will return the next few upcoming recordings and the current state of the system like if someone is watching live TV or a recording is active. I can also schedule new recordings through this MSN/Skype chat.
Now, merge the above with OSPi and you’ll probably find it to be quite similar in many respects.
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could chat with your OSPi, get info when a program is starting or ending and be able to create new programs?
It’s a thought anyway… It’s been almost 20 years since I wrote some code 😯 but I might do something about that, maybe… If anyone else is up for the challange, feel free.
To get a better idea of what you can do, here is a ‘List of commands:’ from ARGUS on MSN/Skype:
List of commands:
● ?,status
● al,alerts [ on | off ]
● ca,cancel
● del,delete schedule
● h,help
● m,more
● not,notifications [ on | off ]
● r,record { o,once | d,daily | w,weekly | wd,workingdays | we,weekends | a,anytime } [ new | all ]
(default is all episodes)
● s,search | (start with to search for numbers, e.g. 's 24')
● ch,show channels
● gr,show groups
● g,show guide [day-number]
● up,show upcoming { r,recordings | a,alerts | s,suggestions }
● tv,television | radio
● un,uncancel EDIT: Looks like there at least is a Python msn lib to use :hint: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-msnlib
/Jonas…