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Hi

I've been messing around with displaying dents and tweets on the MythTV OSD. It is kinda of interesting to see what others are saying about the event you are watching. This works best with live TV viewing of popular shows or sporting events.

Here are some of the use-cases for the On-Screen Display:

• Election return twitter feed
• Popular TV show twitter feed
• Sporting event twitter feed (see demo below)
• Stock ticker
• Weather alerts

Below are links to two video demonstrations of displaying microblog messages on my TV. The first video is during the 2010 NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 race with the search term "NASCAR". It displays search results from Identi.ca and Twitter. The second video is just displaying my personal Identi.ca and Twitter messages while watching an episode of SNL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvPDC6iNk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48-WKeVRj0

What other ideas are there for the MythTV On-Screen Display?

Rock on, PLA

That looks sweet. I think this would be awesome for "live" events, news events, emergencies. Could you post the scripts? I'd like to kick the tires on it a little bit!

elgordo123 wrote:That looks sweet. I think this would be awesome for "live" events, news events, emergencies. Could you post the scripts? I'd like to kick the tires on it a little bit!

Below is a link to my Python script for Microblog MythTV OSD. It is not pretty. I'm a noob Python hacker. It has some hard coded values you'll need to change. A database table is used to avoid displaying the same message twice. Let me know if you have any questions.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/445143/

Rock on, PLA

Patrick this is awesome! You need to get this on the mythtv-users. I am using it during the MTV Movie awards, it is currently parsing the #MTVMovieAwards trending topic. So it is showing more than just the few people I follow.
I can see so many uses for this - award shows, sports games (very excited to use it during the world cup!).

If you are reading this and use mythtv - this takes your tv watching experience to a whole new level...

elgordo123 wrote:Patrick this is awesome! You need to get this on the mythtv-users. I am using it during the MTV Movie awards, it is currently parsing the #MTVMovieAwards trending topic. So it is showing more than just the few people I follow.
I can see so many uses for this - award shows, sports games (very excited to use it during the world cup!).

If you are reading this and use mythtv - this takes your tv watching experience to a whole new level...

Thanks. Glad you got it working. It needs an interface so we can change the search tags easily. I will investigate.

Rock on, PLA

Yeah I'm also trying to get it to use a trending topic like twitterfall does, it doesn't seem to be picking them up, but this is fun...
Edit: I just plugged this in and set the sleep to 10 seconds and it is working wonderfully now!
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=MTVMA