Simplest way to use a touchdown/scoring drive as a trigger?

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Here is a very "SIMPLE" app that pulls the data from the NFL website and filters out a team that you can configure. Right now, it only sends a notification to a pushover or other notification device. I want to test next weekend how quickly the scores change on the NFL website. It also has a known limitation that late night games that go past midnight on the east coast will potentially miss scores. I will look into cleaning it up if it is worth it.

Again, very rough ALPHA proof of concept stage, so don't blast me if you phone get's bombed with notifications :slight_smile:

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I'll gladly provide feed back as well as comparisons to previous platform performance.:+1:

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@dan.t this is pretty cool! I will contribute too. :slight_smile:

I have RGB lighting behind the TV. What would be cool is if your team scores he lights would change to the teams colors with maybe a lighting flash. Will look at code and see how I can incorporate ideas. :slight_smile:

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Anything you have to poll won't work for @aaiyar's use-case though. There's going to be a noticeable delay between the TD and the lights/sound show. Unless you have something real-time, it's not going to work.

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That's true. Right now, hitting a button seems to work - but that's too much work :slight_smile:

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@dan.t

Here is another "free" live feed. Might work better and it supports all "American" sports.

https://www.mysportsfeeds.com/

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Oh for sure. The delay on the NHL app was from 5-15 seconds. Since I stream the game, cable cuter and broadcast HD is awful in my area, I would delay my game by 10 seconds at the puck drop and adjust as needed. The app is excellent, because it doesn't care if you're watching or not. A goal gets scored and your lights start blinking and it blasts your teams celebration sounds. Surprisingly my wife found that to be cute.

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You are correct, it won’t be real time and might not fulfill @aaiyar use case. I don’t think that there is any service out there, paid or free, that could achieve that. That is really why I made this a proof of concept expecting fully that it shows what the delay is. Once we know that, we can make a determination if there is a different use case that would still make it usable.

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@aaron, thanks, I take a look at that feed. The app really doesn’t do much right now, just polling the data. I want to see what the delay really is.

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Ok, here is some feedback. Did some testing today... I changed the App to have a more frequent refresh during a game went down to a 3 second refresh without any noticeable hub performance issues.

The app was able to retrieve a scoring drive about 10-15 seconds after the score happened on TV. Definitely won’t work for celebrating touchdown drives with lights and sounds. It is too noticeable of a delay.

However, there might be some use cases:
E.g. the app can identify when the team is in the red zone and could activate a switch for that. This way we could control some lights in that case.

I am also contemplating to add a driver to the app to be able to set some custom attributes and show those on a dashboard....

I’ll work on it if there is any interest to it. If not, no harm no foul

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When you're watching two games, that could act as a trigger to switch to the right channel - for example. I can see this as being very useful.

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It’s like the HE RedZone channel.....

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To be clear, I wasn't being facetious. A little while back I was switching back & forth between the Bills and the Packers.

Edit - so this would definitely be useful.

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I didn’t take it the wrong way

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Ok, I just uploaded a new "alpha" version here:

It allows you to:

  • turn switch on/off if your selected team is in the redzone
  • send scoring drive notifications to a notification device
  • push a button on a scoring drive

There are three timers to configure:

  1. Refresh time during Game - this is the time the app checks the NFL website data for new scoring information - I used 3 seconds today with no bad side effects
  2. Refresh time on Game Day - this is how often the app checks if the game is active only on game days
  3. Refresh time every other day - this is how often the app checks if there is any new information in the NFL data when it is not a game day.

If anyone is interested, give it a shot. Still in early alpha though and would be happy to get any and all feedback.

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NHL season is about to start... any chance you'd be willing to post that code somewhere?

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you can find the code in the 'ported' section of my github...

Thanks

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I am sad to report that this port seems to be missing something. I see no log activity during the game and no goal notifications from tonight's 5 goal effort by my team. I poked around the API website and it appears to be valid still.

If there're any Hockey fans out there reading this that are good at API related stuff, I for one would be very grateful if you can fix this.

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I've been working on this since the Bruins game started tonight. I actually just uploaded a new version. It 'almost' works, lol

It goes out and gets the data but the date/time is off. I posted it hoping someone could look at it and see something I'm missing.

Going to make a new post about it so it might get more attention.

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