RE: http://zz9.dnsq.org

["Stuart Whyte" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Any chance of revealing the code you use to do this ;-) ??

 

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Stevens [mailto:adam@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 January 2002 16:47
To: UK HomeAutomation Mail List
Subject: [ukha_d] http://zz9.dnsq.org

> So how does the TV Guide
work?

Ah yes, I was just about to reply to your e-mail, but I may as
well
do it
here.

Basically, I have a bit of code which simply does a
screen-scrape of a TV
Listings web site (anything will do, Yahoo,
Digiguide,
anything like that).
I schedule a script to run every couple of days to
pickup the latest
listings, and then import them into a SQL Server
database.

The nice thing about having them in a database is that
once I
have TV
listings in there, I can do pretty much anything with them...
the
"Now and
next" page on the site just does a DB query - It also means
that I
can use
the scheduling in Homeseer to automatically set-up voice
reminders to
remind
me a few minutes before a program starts (Homeseer basically
reads
the
database, speaks the reminder, then checks for the next thing on my
"things
to watch" list, and creates an event for the next one). 
Digiguide will do
that, but not as flexibly (for example, "The house"
knows
when I'm out, or
asleep, so won't bother announcing programs
then).

It
also means that with help of the Pronto I have a button which will
speak
via
the ceiling speakers the current "now and next" list - And other
buttons
which give me more details on whatever is on a specific
channels.

All works rather well... Just a shame that all this is
simply
to stop me
from missing Eastenders... If only I had a Tivo...
:-)

Adam.

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