[mythtv-users] MythRecommend module, gathering stage... [was: Collaborative recommended viewing revisited...]

[Mike Benoit]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:24 -0500, Josh Burks wrote:
> You know, I've started on something similar, called MythStats.
> Currenty I'm the only one submitting the records, but the webpage is
> about 75% complete, so you can see what's been recorded. There's a
> perl script that takes records from the oldrecording table, check to
> see if it's been sent, and submits the data to the site.
> 
> Once enough data was collected, a "recommend" feature was planned, but
> never implemented.
> 
> My site as well can be anon (for those scared of "Big Brother"), or
> you can pick a id of your choice.
> 
> http://theburks.hopto.org/~joshb

Cool, my idea was basically to tackle this from the opposite end as you.
Get the recommendations working well, and people using it, then add an
_optional_ flag to submit "extended" data (oldrecordings and such) to
gather further statistics to aid the recommendations, and just for the
"Cool Factor" as well maybe. 

Would be interesting to see how many hours of recordings, and which
programs/categories MythTV users in general prefer. 

Perhaps we should combine our efforts?

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:13:54 -0700, Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca> wrote:
> > Well, I got a decent response from people when I started the
> > "Collaborative recommended viewing revisited..." thread, so I spent a
> > couple hours and completed the "first stage" of MythRecommend.
> > 
> > http://ipso.snappymail.ca:8080/mythrecommend/mythrecommend.pl
> > 
> > By default the script prints the help. If you pass it the --dry-run
> > option it prints out the data it gathers, WITHOUT sending it. Not until
> > you pass it the --send option will ANY data be sent to the central
> > database.
> > 
> > The script does create a unique id and stores it in a file for future
> > runs, the main reason is to keep database bloat down. The first time you
> > run the script, it sends all your CURRENT (not past) recordings, any
> > time after that, it only sends changes.
> > 
> > It is 99.99% anonymous, and stores NO personal information for the
> > paranoid ones out there. ;)
> > 
> > Ideally the script would be run from cron on a regular basis, nightly,
> > or once a week is fine.
> > 
> > Hopefully by the end of this weekend I will have the second stage done,
> > which will actually recommend new shows for you to watch. Can't really
> > recommend new shows to watch without gathering some data first
> > anyways. ;)
> > 
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> > 
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