mtillmann/habibitv

HBBTV Twitter Client

habibiTV

HBBTV Twitter Client

removes the "smartTV" crap and covert tracking from your TV and instead provides a stream of tweets on the screen.

Here's a short demo Video

Notice

Use this at your own risk! My shitty toshiba crashed and rebooted several times while building this. Your TV experience may suffer. I am not liable if your TV suffers permanent damage!

Setup

1. get a raspberry pi with a wifi adapter and plug it into your tv's usb port
   (or use any existing linux machine in your network)
2. install raspbian
   (or skip this step if you don't use a pi)
3. install dnsmasq
   (or any other dns server)
4. make sure your dns server has a static ip address
5. set your tv's dns server to your new dns server's ip address
6. paste the contents of hosts-german to /etc/hosts and put in your new servers ip address
   (or determine the hosts that need to be resolved if you live in another country by logging the lookups while changing channels)
7. install a webserver(apache+mod_rewrite), git client, nodejs, npm and bower
8. clone this repository to the webroot
9. run bower install

Usage

If the setup was successful a small twitter icon appear on the lower right after switching channels. Press the red button on your remote to open the app. Use your remote's cursor buttons or number buttons to enter the hashtag you want to stream. Press the red button again to close the app. The blue button will open or close the text input to search for a new hashtag.

Limits

The app uses a static url to fetch tweets. If you experience problems just send me an e-mail.