Added commercial padding to config / logic. Difficult to test without just running it as is. Fingers crossed. Am converting the config value from seconds to milli's then adding it to the commercial duration - in theory this will work as a padding if value specified is > than 0.

PseudoChannel.py

@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ class PseudoChannel():
 
     APP_TIME_FORMAT_STR = '%I:%M:%S %p'
 
+    COMMERCIAL_PADDING_IN_SECONDS = config.commercialPadding
+
     DEBUG = config.debug_mode
 
     def __init__(self):
@@ -573,7 +575,8 @@ class PseudoChannel():
 
         if self.USING_COMMERCIAL_INJECTION:
             self.commercials = PseudoChannelCommercial(
-                self.db.get_commercials()
+                self.db.get_commercials(),
+                self.COMMERCIAL_PADDING_IN_SECONDS
             )
 
         schedule = self.db.get_schedule()
@@ -816,7 +819,7 @@ class PseudoChannel():
 
     def run_commercial_injection(self):
 
-        print "#### Running commercial injection."
+        """print "#### Running commercial injection."
 
         self.commercials = PseudoChannelCommercial(
             self.db.get_commercials(),
@@ -825,7 +828,9 @@ class PseudoChannel():
 
         commercials_to_inject = self.commercials.get_commercials_to_inject()
 
-        print commercials_to_inject
+        print commercials_to_inject"""
+
+        pass
 
     def run(self):
 

pseudo_config.py

@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ useGoogleCalendar = False
 
 useCommercialInjection = True
 
+# How many seconds to pad commercials between each other / other media
+commercialPadding = 5
+
 dailyUpdateTime = "12:00 AM"
 
 debug_mode = False

src/PseudoChannelCommercial.py

@@ -11,12 +11,15 @@ from src import Commercial
 class PseudoChannelCommercial():
 
     MIN_DURATION_FOR_COMMERCIAL = 10 #seconds
+    COMMERCIAL_PADDING_IN_SECONDS = 0
     daily_schedule = []
 
-    def __init__(self, commercials):
+    def __init__(self, commercials, commercialPadding):
 
         self.commercials = commercials
 
+        self.COMMERCIAL_PADDING_IN_SECONDS = commercialPadding
+
     def get_commercials_to_inject(self):
 
         self.go()
@@ -86,6 +89,16 @@ class PseudoChannelCommercial():
     def timedelta_milliseconds(self, td):
         return td.days*86400000 + td.seconds*1000 + td.microseconds/1000
 
+    def pad_the_commercial_dur(self, commercial):
+
+        commercial_as_list = list(commercial)
+
+        commercial_as_list[4] = int(commercial_as_list[4]) + (self.COMMERCIAL_PADDING_IN_SECONDS * 1000)
+
+        commercial = tuple(commercial_as_list)
+
+        return commercial
+
     def get_commercials_to_place_between_media(self, last_ep, now_ep):
 
         #print last_ep.end_time, now_ep.start_time
@@ -114,7 +127,12 @@ class PseudoChannelCommercial():
 
         while curr_item_start_time > new_commercial_start_time and (count) < len(self.commercials)*100:
 
-            random_commercial = self.get_random_commercial()
+            random_commercial_without_pad = self.get_random_commercial()
+
+            """
+            Padding the duration of commercials as per user specified padding.
+            """
+            random_commercial = self.pad_the_commercial_dur(random_commercial_without_pad)
 
             #new_commercial_seconds = (int(random_commercial[4])/1000)%60