“Is hard to keep tracking all your Tv Series?”
Why not code a script to do that for you and notifies you on new releases.
Ok, I also wanted to play with RSS and WebHooks and that would be perfect to this project.

Idea: I will check a RSS feed for new items and notify of those changes.
For notifications I will use: desktop popups, slack (webhook) & discord (webhook).

So this is how I setup the script:

Configs:

I found a website that releases that information, every time an episode is out but they have lots of tv shows on that list and I only want some of them.

• Solution: Have a config file where I select witch ones I want.
  

“<name of the show / part of the name on the feed>”: {
 "slack": [ "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…“],
 "discord”: [ “https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/…”  ],
 "popup”: <if you want to popup a notification on desktop>,
 "open": <if you want to open in your default program>,
 "color": “<color related to the show>”,
 "pic": “<img that represents this show>”,
 "link": “<for the infos about this show>”,
 "epd": <current epd>

as an example for this post, I will be using one anime called “Boruto”:

RSS Feed:

RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) is a type of web feed^[2] which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format.

For the RSS feed reader, I’m using this awesome lib “feedparser”

def downloadFeed(settings):
rss = feedparser.parse(settings[“rss”][“url”])
for post in rss.entries:
   for serie in settings[“series”]:
       if serie in post.title:
…

From there I:
# clean/parse the title so I can get the episode for that serie
# check if the episode is bigger then the current one on the configs
# return the clean feed to next phase

Actions:

- Slack & Discord WebHooks

These platforms have the ability of setup webhooks and send especial formatted messages (First picture, right Discord and left Slack)

WebHook:
is an HTTP callback: an HTTP POST that occurs when something happens; a simple event-notification via HTTP POST. A web application implementing WebHooks will POST a message to a URL when certain things happen.

- Open & Desktop Notifications:

I made so I can select 2 more options on the config file, “open” and “popup”.
For the “open with default program”, I found a simple solution:

For the “popup notifications”, I’m using “pync” that let you customize the popup with text and links and other fields.

- Timer / AutoRun

Now you just setup a timer to run it. So I’m using “crontab”: 

*/15 * * * * [script here] > [log file] 

This will run every 15mins and save a log if anything goes bad.

… and that’s it! a Simple way to keep track of your Tv Shows.

I still have some ideas for this project and there still room to improve it, but is a nice base for future project using RSS and Webhooks.

Have a nice day

- Ideia: know when a room is being used and make a log of how much was used.
- Why: This is for a room used by several people, but they can only use if someone from the administration is there to open the door (aka inside the room). Then I’ve this idea for a system that warns/tell users if there is anyone on the room.
- Resources: I only used what was available in that room and that’s was an old webcam and an old pc.
- Location: Room (in basement, so you need to have the light on every time you use)

I already had some basic’s about python and I never use openCV, so this project was all an excuse to learn a little more.

Tools: Python (w/ openCV) + Bash + Twitter + iOS Notification + GoogleCal  

Python (w/opencv) | https://www.python.org/ |  http://opencv.org/

Logs & Notification (Twitter), iOS Notification (Prowl), Calendar (GoogleCal):
- I was already using all this programs on my system, so I used all the tools that I already made (so just an interaction with my bash script)

Crontab - Since is an old pc, I made so it check/run every “x” minutes.

The result: 
- Render the img from the webcam, using a threshold that transforms the picture in black & white and then I make a 3 regions, 2 for control and one for the whites. 

Read more …

^{[ IN PORTUGUESE ]}
Só um exemplo, com esta aplicação é possível mudar a cor dos led’s entre outras funções. 

A aplicação que estou a criar permite que varias pessoas ao mesmo tempo, possam escrever/desenhar na matriz usando apenas o seu Portatil, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Android, WindowsPhone, etc, e possam  mostrar aos seus colegas e amigos a sua mensagem/desenho na sede do NEI.

>> Para isso basta estar conectado a Eduroam e aceder aqui: PixelDraw  [LINK AQUI BREVEMENTE!] 

Nota: O projecto ainda é beta, o que quer dizer que com o tempo ainda vai melhorar, tanto o aspecto como funcionalidades.

F.A.Q____________________________________________

• Porque varias pessoas ao mesmo tempo?

Achei que seria uma boa experiência social, ver se as pessoas ajudam umas as outras a criar algo mais ou simplesmente uma anarquia para ver quem controla mais área da matriz :)

• Porque que só consigo aceder na UALG?

Porque programei para ser necessário estar conectado a “Eduroam” (rede wifi da UAlg), desta maneira podemos controlar o acesso e só permitir a pessoas que realmente podem ver o resultado na matriz. 
Se for o caso de não sejas estudante ou professor da UAlg e quereres usar a matriz podes sempre passar pelo NEI, que nos damos te acesso :)

• O que que usas-te para programar esta aplicação?

“Um pouco de tudo”, a maior para te do projecto foi feito usando  html5, javascript e css3, para que pudesse ser usado em qualquer plataforma tanto no telemovel do pedro como o portatil da ana.
  

Acerca deste projecto____________________________

Desenvolvido na Universidade do Algarve pelo “Núcleo de Electrónica e Informática” o qual faço parte.

Utilizando a própria sala da sede como matriz foi feita uma armação em madeira e plástico em que o objectivo seria colocar os led de forma a que ficassem alinhados com cada quadrado da janela. 
A matriz consiste em 8 linhas e 16 colunas de Led’s RGB, controlados por um arduino e atraves da porta COM podemos controlar tanto a cor dos leds como a posição. 

Um exemplo de um dos quadrantes, com os leds todos ligados e com a cor azul.