[mythtv-users] FaceBook Status Updates in MythTV

[David Meixner]

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:42:38 -0800
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FaceBook Status Updates in MythTV
> On Dec 14, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
>  I'll work up a new version when I have more time that will accept
>> arguments for username and password as well as where to put the temp
>> files so you could run like this:
>> ./facebookOSD.pl -u name -p password -d /home/myhome
>>
>
> I posted a new version:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FacebookOSD.pl
>
> This one takes arguments for -email, -password and -dir for your login
> information and the directory to store the working files.
> I run this every 5 minutes with a cron job that looks like this:
>  */5 * *   *   *    DISPLAY=:0 ./facebookOSD.pl -email me\@mydomain.com-password mypassword -dir ~/
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>
>
>
Thanks, awesome script!

I had to make a few changes to get this working, so here they are in case
anyone else runs into the same problem:

1.  Needed perl module Crypt::SSLeay, which requires SSL libraries:

$ yum install openssl-devel
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install Crypt::SSLeay

2.  On my system, osd_cat is located at /usr/bin/local/osd_cat (not
/usr/bin/osd_cat), so I modified that line in the perl script.

3.  Changed the following line:

my $feedurl = decode_entities($1) if $response->content =~
/title=\"Friends.* Status Updates Feed\" href=\"(http:\/\/www.facebook.com
\/feeds\/friends_status.php\?id=\d+&key=.*&format=rss20)\"\/>/;

to

my $feedurl = decode_entities($1) if $response->content =~
/title=\"Friends.* Status Updates Feed\" href=\"(http:\/\/www.facebook.com
\/feeds\/friends_status.php\?id=\d+&amp;key=.*format=rss20)\"\/>/;

The difference being that after the "&", I needed to add "amp;", and the "&"
before the format wasn't needed.

4.  I didn't have the font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-30-*-*-*-*-*-*-* so
I used -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24*
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