23. February 2015

PCTV Broadway HD-S2 Client for Desktop

The PCTV Broadway HD-S2 is currently my favorite network sat receiver. It is tightly integrated into many of our network clients.

As the PCTV Broadway HD-S2 provides a nice and clean REST Api, I decided to start writing a small desktop client to access the streams and recordings (My main focus is Mac OSX / Linux for now). Sure, you can use VLC for that or just use the web interface, but I wanted something more customizable .

The Broadway PHP Api is working nicely and I am tempted to integrate the same functionality into the desktop client :)

Basic functionality working so far:

Auto-discover Broadway on the network (which is more of a hack, but works nicely)
Check stream availability
Channel listing
Working on a channel preview grid
Select favorites
Watch live streams
EPG now and upcoming ….soon ;)

Cheers
Alex

20. January 2015

Today-Scripts – A widget for running scripts in the Today View in OS X Yosemite’s Notification Center

“A widget for running scripts in the Today View in OS X Yosemite’s Notification Center”

Latest Version – Github

Here a nice list of sample uses
Wiki
Reddit 1
Reddit 2

Example of colorized memory display

ps xmo rss=,pmem=,comm= | while read rss pmem comm; ((n++<5)); do
 
    size="$[rss/1024]";
    short=$[4-${#size}];
    size="(${size}M)";
    i=0;
    while ((i++ < short)); do size=" $size"; done;
 
    pmem="${pmem%%.*}"
    if   (($pmem >= 20)); then color=$'\e[31m';
    elif (($pmem >= 10)); then color=$'\e[33m';
    else                       color=$'\e[32m ';
    fi;
 
    echo "$color$pmem% $size $(basename "$comm")"$'\e[0m'"";
done