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# pseudo-channel - Plex Controller for Home-brewed TV Channel
This is a python based cli-app using the python-plex-api to control a plex-client and act like a real TV channel with show scheduling, commercial breaks, movie nights, etc.
This project is inspired by the [Fake TV](https://medium.com/@Fake.TV/installation-and-setup-of-faketv-e21340fbf1d4) blog post I came across on reddit a while ago. In his really cool project, the author uses a feature rich controller script called 'Python Plex Controller', located here: [https://github.com/MoeFwacky/Python-Plex-Controller](https://github.com/MoeFwacky/Python-Plex-Controller) to handle his "Fake TV" channel. I spent a few hours playing with this script and really had fun with it. It pretty much does everything you need and a lot more. There was however one thing missing that turned out to be pretty important to me: some kind of episode / movie duration calculation to shift a daily generated TV schedule so no media gets cutoff. Basically with that script, you can set a repeatable "weekday" schedule for a TV show... So every weekday the next episode in say, the 'Seinfeld' series will play at the specified time (i.e. "6:30 PM"). The problem I was having with this script is that if an episode happens to be longer than usual (say 1 hour versus the usual 30 minutes as scheduled), it won't adjust for that but will cut it off if you have something scheduled at say, "7:00 PM". It's very possible that this feature exists in that script and I missed it, but after playing with the awesome Plex API library over at: [https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi](https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi), I realized just how easy it is to control the playback of Plex media on my RasPlex client via my command line using Python and I decided to try and roll my own very simple script that does one thing really well: generate a daily TV schedule based on user defined TV Shows, time ranges, and random movies during specified movie time - injecting commercials where needed.
Joined by the author of [Fake TV](https://medium.com/@Fake.TV), this project aims at tackling one issue: creating a fake tv channel experience with your own media library (movies, tv shows, commercials, etc.). The idea is super simple... when you turn on your TV, rather than hopping straight to Netflix, you can choose to watch your own channel of curated media like a real channel, with randomized movie time blocks, weekend morning cartoons, 90's commercials to fill up gaps and more. We aim to add a ton of neat features but the basic idea is to have something that feels like a real TV channel. That being said it isn't supposed to "pause" nor are you supposed to intervene too much. Just like a real channel you are presented with a channel that you define once and let it go as it advances in series episodes, playing random movies where specified (defined by various parameters like genre, "Kevin Bacon", etc.). Think: weekday movie nights @ 8:00 PM. Or perhpas you want to further specify your weekly Wednesday evening movie be a movie in your Plex library that stars "Will Smith". Currently the latter feature among many others are being developed but this is the goal. PseudoChannel is built to interface with the Plex media server. So if you want to have your very own PseudoChannel, you first need to set up your home server using [Plex](https://www.plex.tv/). After that you can come back here to learn how to setup everything else. Please note that we just started this project so everything is evolving rapidly. Check back often. We aim to have a decent working "alpha" version within a week or so. This readme / the how-to guide will all be very user friendly. Although this app runs using Python and the command line, we aim to make all of it as easy as possible to understand for those who are intimidated by this sort of technology.
![Generated HTML schedule](http://i.imgur.com/SQaUpYM.png)
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- [x] Add a controller to query the local generated pseudo_tv.db to see when to trigger the next media.
- [x] Add episode duration checking & adjust daily generated schedule based on these results...
- [x] Generate daily html schedule (saved in ./schedules directory). Can be served via webserver.
- [ ] Add "commercial injection" to fill up gaps between content.
- [ ] Bug fixes
- [ ] Add Google Calendar integration to easily schedule your PseudoChannel.
- [ ] Add "commercial injection" & user defined "defaults" to fill up gaps between content.
- [ ] Bug fixes.
- [ ] List of features from reddit.
If interested in this project, check back very soon when the beta is up. It's close and a tiny bit more user friendly. :)