[mythtv-users] FaceBook Status Updates in MythTV

Alex Butcher mythlist at assursys.co.uk
Sun Dec 14 12:08:11 UTC 2008


On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/358965#358965
> ) I mentioned interest in getting my Facebook friends status to
> display while watching programs.
>
> I finally sat down today and wrote a perl script, but need some help
> with the last little bit. So far it:
> 1. Logs into Facebook
> 2. Scrapes the friends update page to get the RSS Feed URL
> 3. Grabs the Friends Status Update RSS
> 4. Determines if the update happened after the last time the script
> was run and if so, adds it to the update
> 5. Makes a system call to mythtvosd to display the update text
> 6. Writes the script run time to a text file to use the next time.
>
> My problem is with step 5.
>
> 1. mythtvosd fades away before the text is done. It starts to display
> and then fades after a few seconds.

Looks like there's no way of overriding that behaviour currently.

<http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+tips+MythTV+integration>
suggests xosd might be a better approach, for this and other reasons.

> -Brad

HTH,
Alex.


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