[mythtv-users] Sync live tweets to recording playback

[Michael Robinson]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool! Great for sports, live support would be fantastic.
> How does the app display the tweets? With osd?
>
> Can you filter different tweet subjects for different programs like getting
> jakehumphrey during formula one?
>
> R

You can specify a command to be called to display the each tweet.  So
you can supply a simple script to display it on the OSD.  This way you
can handle the tweets any way you'd like.  And the app doesn't have to
run locally on the frontend.  So, for example, you can run it on a
laptop and have the tweets displayed locally if you like.

As for filters, so far you can only specify one or more twitterers
(tweeters?).  I could eventually add a hash tag and search word filter
in the future.  In the meantime, you can use the Twitter API for any
kind of search and save the file locally.  Then you can feed the file
to the app.  There's an example in the help text.

As for the live streaming API, I plan on adding it eventually.  It
wasn't a priority since there are already scripts out there to display
live tweets...they just don't support playing them in sync if you are
time shifted.

-Mike