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Nov 20, 2008, 8:51 PM

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sms/email interface

does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web traffic..... or
at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?
-J
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Nov 20, 2008, 8:57 PM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM, MailingListJ
<JMailingListNoDigest [at] gmail> wrote:
> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web traffic..... or
> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?

Behind a firewall eh? ;)

Have a look at procmail. It should do all you want, and then some.
You'd need to grab mail to your myth box (either accepting them
directly as an smtp server, or via some other server), and filter it
through procmail. Write some recipes, and chuck them on the wiki
perhaps. How complex did you have in mind? Just a few basic commands
like "record show", or a full blown interface? It might be possible to
emulate the command line interface via email, but that would be a lot
of emails... your sysadmins might get suspicious... but there's no
technical reason why not.

vik
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chris at westnet

Nov 20, 2008, 9:09 PM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:

> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web traffic..... or
> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?

I was just thinking about that. I've written some AIM bots in the past, and
was thinking about an AIM and/or Jabber (Google talk etc) bot that would let
me talk to my Myth machine. I had gotten as far as looking at the telnet
interface, but hadn't actually come up with what I wanted to do with it.

I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status screen of
Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as IMs when
recordings or jobs start/stop.

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Nov 21, 2008, 6:13 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

Replying to two mail.....

I was thinking something like that, where are the interfaces? They both
could use the same engine to parse them (I think).

Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:
>
>
>> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
>> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web traffic..... or
>> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?
>>
>
> I was just thinking about that. I've written some AIM bots in the past, and
> was thinking about an AIM and/or Jabber (Google talk etc) bot that would let
> me talk to my Myth machine. I had gotten as far as looking at the telnet
> interface, but hadn't actually come up with what I wanted to do with it.
>
> I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status screen of
> Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as IMs when
> recordings or jobs start/stop.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
hah, kind of.... I was thinking start with a few basic commands and then eventually make a full blown interface and integrate it into the current distribution as a plugin or something..... what is the command line interface? where can I find information about it.....

wrote:
>Behind a firewall eh? ;)

>Have a look at procmail. It should do all you want, and then some.
>You'd need to grab mail to your myth box (either accepting them
>directly as an smtp server, or via some other server), and filter it
>through procmail. Write some recipes, and chuck them on the wiki
>perhaps. How complex did you have in mind? Just a few basic commands
>like "record show", or a full blown interface? It might be possible to
>emulate the command line interface via email, but that would be a lot
>of emails... your sysadmins might get suspicious... but there's no
>technical reason why not.
>
>vik

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chris at westnet

Nov 21, 2008, 8:04 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:

> distribution as a plugin or something..... what is the command line
> interface? where can I find information about it.....

Wiki has documentation on the commands available from the telnet socket:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Telnet_socket

Since there doesn't seem to be any asychronous notification, the bot would
need to poll the system periodicly and send out messages when something
changes.

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Nov 21, 2008, 12:10 PM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
<chris [at] westnet> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:
>
>> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
>> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web traffic..... or
>> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?
>
> I was just thinking about that. I've written some AIM bots in the past, and
> was thinking about an AIM and/or Jabber (Google talk etc) bot that would let
> me talk to my Myth machine. I had gotten as far as looking at the telnet
> interface, but hadn't actually come up with what I wanted to do with it.
>
> I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status screen of
> Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as IMs when
> recordings or jobs start/stop.
>
>
>
> ==========================================================
> Chris Candreva -- chris [at] westnet -- (914) 948-3162
> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
> http://www.westnet.com/
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>

I for one would love this feature, unfortunately I don't have the
ability to help develop it. I'd be willing to test though if such a
plugin were ever developed.

--Justin Johnson
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myth at dermanouelian

Nov 21, 2008, 12:20 PM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
> <chris [at] westnet> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:
>>
>>> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv. Or an
>>> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web
>>> traffic..... or
>>> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?
>>
>> I was just thinking about that. I've written some AIM bots in the
>> past, and
>> was thinking about an AIM and/or Jabber (Google talk etc) bot that
>> would let
>> me talk to my Myth machine. I had gotten as far as looking at the
>> telnet
>> interface, but hadn't actually come up with what I wanted to do
>> with it.
>>
>> I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status
>> screen of
>> Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as
>> IMs when
>> recordings or jobs start/stop.

Have you seen mythmail in the contrib directory? I use a modified
version of it to mail me error messages from the log files. It may be
a good starting point.

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chris at westnet

Nov 22, 2008, 7:26 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Justin Johnson wrote:

> > I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status screen of
> > Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as IMs when
> > recordings or jobs start/stop.

> I for one would love this feature, unfortunately I don't have the
> ability to help develop it. I'd be willing to test though if such a
> plugin were ever developed.

For those interested in this (specificly the OP MailingListJ ) , is there a
preference for AOL/AIM or Jabber/Google Talk ?

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Nov 22, 2008, 8:03 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Justin Johnson wrote:
>
>>> I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status screen of
>>> Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as IMs when
>>> recordings or jobs start/stop.
>
>> I for one would love this feature, unfortunately I don't have the
>> ability to help develop it. I'd be willing to test though if such a
>> plugin were ever developed.
>
> For those interested in this (specificly the OP MailingListJ ) , is there a
> preference for AOL/AIM or Jabber/Google Talk ?
>
>
>
> ==========================================================
> Chris Candreva -- chris [at] westnet -- (914) 948-3162
> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
> http://www.westnet.com/
> _______________________________________________
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>
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Nov 22, 2008, 5:20 PM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> For those interested in this (specificly the OP MailingListJ ) , is there a
> preference for AOL/AIM or Jabber/Google Talk ?
>

I'm thinking that all three (AOL/AIM, Jabber/Google Talk, and sms) will
all be run from the same parser and the way the message is received will
be different. I'm more then happy to contribute I just don't know how
and what features to start with. If people have ides for what commands
to write, how they should be formatted (somewhat). I would prefer AIM
because it can be interfaced through SMS, if SMS interface can be done
Jabber wise then we mineaswell start there....

-J
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Nov 24, 2008, 1:51 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

> Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>> For those interested in this (specificly the OP MailingListJ ) , is there a
>> preference for AOL/AIM or Jabber/Google Talk ?
>>
>
> I'm thinking that all three (AOL/AIM, Jabber/Google Talk, and sms) will
> all be run from the same parser and the way the message is received will
> be different. I'm more then happy to contribute I just don't know how
> and what features to start with. If people have ides for what commands
> to write, how they should be formatted (somewhat). I would prefer AIM
> because it can be interfaced through SMS, if SMS interface can be done
> Jabber wise then we mineaswell start there....
>
I have written a jabberbot, which works fine with Google. ATM it only
lets you request status information (listings for a channel, last n
recordings, etc).

It's written in Python and requires the Myth Python bindings. I'll tidy
up the code and put it up on my website in a couple of days.

Ian.
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Dec 2, 2008, 4:38 AM

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Re: sms/email interface [In reply to]

Ian Barton wrote:
>> Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>>> For those interested in this (specificly the OP MailingListJ ) , is there a
>>> preference for AOL/AIM or Jabber/Google Talk ?
>>>
>> I'm thinking that all three (AOL/AIM, Jabber/Google Talk, and sms) will
>> all be run from the same parser and the way the message is received will
>> be different. I'm more then happy to contribute I just don't know how
>> and what features to start with. If people have ides for what commands
>> to write, how they should be formatted (somewhat). I would prefer AIM
>> because it can be interfaced through SMS, if SMS interface can be done
>> Jabber wise then we mineaswell start there....
>>
> I have written a jabberbot, which works fine with Google. ATM it only
> lets you request status information (listings for a channel, last n
> recordings, etc).
>
> It's written in Python and requires the Myth Python bindings. I'll tidy
> up the code and put it up on my website in a couple of days.
>
This is now available from http://www.ian-barton.com/MythTV/MythJabberbot

Ian.
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