Re: automation/scripting of public TV

[Felix Leimbach <felix leimbach gmail com>]

On 10/28/2012 09:39 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Sa, 2012-10-27 at 19:07 +0200, Felix Leimbach wrote:
>
> > My use case, just in case you are wondering:
> > I've got a huge TV in a public location, a kind of exhibition, and it
> > should play specified videos at set times.
> > This process has to be fully automated.
> >
> > Any idea on how to achieve that?
>
> There's two solutions to this:
>
> a) dLeyna[1], providing a DLNA to DBus translation layer, but I don't
> know if it has ready-to-use scripts
>
> b) Korva[2], [3], providing an implementation of the so-called DLNA
> 2-Box push model (+PU+) profile which means sending media files to
> renderers from local file-system; it comes with commandline tools to
> send an uri to a renderer, get a list of available devices and stop
> sharing of a file.

I've scripted a solution with korva-control's push action and it works 
great so far:
korva-control --action=push --device=uuid:<uuid> -f <somefile.mp4>

Thanks Jens, for this great piece of software. Highly appreciated.