Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io

A python script allows you to enter the name of the show, scrubs it from a tv guide website and adds the release date of each episode into a scheduler. Then, the scheduler fires off and searches for each episode on a torrent aggregator (like torrentz or something) and downloads it from the best seed/leech ratio result. All without your intervention since torrent RSS is not very reliable in the public tracker scenario.<p>What would be the legality of distributing that script? (depending on legality, I may or may not write or have already written such a script)

This is cool but this is not Google TV. The article title is misleading. I have a hard time even calling it a version of Google TV.

I've already built myself a TV out of the Rpi, using OpenELEC+XBMC! Have a great remote, too in the form of the Yatse application.<p>I do appreciate the "hackerness" attempt of the article though, it goes to show why the Pi is so cool.

RPI has a very mature version of XBMC working on it, so you are much better off with that for your home media center.<p>BUT god this is a nice hacking project and i would love to see this being the start of an XBMC alternative open source project that is built upon web technology! Awesome!

Not Google TV. Not even close. Great work but what are the advantages over XBMC on the raspberry pi?

Fun seeing what people do with their PIs. Really appreciate the time people put into documenting their projects.<p>I've been running a custom mp3 media server[1] built around a similar stack (node,socket.io,express) and I was surprised how capable the pi is for this kind of thing. The only real slowdown I saw in my project was inserting/reading thousands of records from a sqlite3 db (displaying all tracks for example) and even that was solved pretty easily with some caching. My project is all running headless though, with presentation handled on the client (phone/desktop browser); I'd be curious how the chromium render speeds are for this. In my testing any kind of web browsing on the pi was pretty painful.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/badfortrains/wupnp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/badfortrains/wupnp</a> my much more poorly documented raspberry pi project

This really could be the start of something great. FWIW, here is what I think a media center should do, which no current solution achieves:<p>Have a DVR-like interface, where <i>all</i> content is combined. This means downloaded torrents (by new and/or watched), with meta info. Also include new streams from HuluFlix based on when they were made available. New shows recorded from antenna and maybe QAM. New movies from Crackle, etc. The point is, I should be able to tell the application that I want all new episodes of "The Simpsons" and it will use all available configured sources to find what I want. It will present this to me in one comprehensive list. The source is irrelevant and I don't want to start various apps to find what I want. Google TV sort of tried to do this and failed. As cool as XBMC and their ilk are, they suffer from not passing the "wife test" and feature bloat. This thing, in my mind, should be dead simple to use.

Just no netflix.

What I wouldn't give for a decent HDMI passthrough video setup for a better channel guide (on my own hardware)

Great! I'm about to start on a freelance project writing web stuff for set-top boxes, nice to see what's out there in the open source world. Thanks for posting. :)

There is a commercial version of this running android <a href="http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/</a>

Somebody please pack this all together and sell it for $50. This is how Apple do business. Sell hardware and software together.

You should throw in a kinect sensor (or any alternative) and have a very comfortable remote control.

How is this Google TV? There's no HDMI passthrough, its just HTPC. It's a cool project nonetheless

woah, this is really cool. How does this compare to XBMC on the raspmc distro? I am really tempted to try this out on my rpi because a lot of the software stack used could be hacked on easily.

This is awesome! Do you have any plans to continue working on this?

I just happen to have an extra rPi lying around. Thanks!

Great (sigh)....now I need to get myself a Raspberry Pi

Nice but in no way a Google TV.

+1! Awesome work Donald!

Nice!

i will try it as soon as i have my rPi