RSS feeds

[Christian]

Hi!

I'll start off by bragging about what a great software VC is. tested it twice and had to buy it right away. Love it, love it, love it!
I have started a home automation project at home and with VC and eventghost it is not much I need to do with my hands any more. 

I now control coffee machine, lighs, tv, reciever, set top box, computer and recently my coffee grinder.
In the morning i can say good morning computer and it turns on the light and warms up my coffee machine, grinds coffe for 15 sec and turns my tv on and switches to the news channel.

but I wish it could reed out my rss feed subscriptions or ar least add rss feeds to VC.
maby you guys allready have a solution for this that I've not found, but I have done some searching and I cant find a solution.

I have some other ideas as well but I will post them seperately

Christian
Norway

[jitterjames]

Hi Christian,

Welcome to VoxCommando.  I'm thrilled to hear about all the fun you are having with VC and home automation.

If you want VC to read your rss feeds it should be relatively easy to accomplish using the scrape command and Results.RegEx.

If you give me a sample feed address I can probably put together a command for you, or you can do a search through the forum.  There was recently some discussion of scraping a german weather site.

[Christian]

Hi James!

Thats a quick forum reply

Today I use Google reader on my android phones to collect all feeds, so at first I was thinking about a future import of multipple rss, but if you allready have a way that's great.

Here is a feed that i follow:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/norway/index.html?rss=1#

I allso follow a lot of norwegian feeds, but they are not to tts friendly, because of norwegian language and english tts issue, but I found a google translate function in VC.
Is it possible to use google translate to translate those feeds? That would be awsome. I know that Google Translate from norwegian to english is some what funny som times because GT sometimes translates a word with two different english meanings, but in short rss feeds should not be a big problem.

[jitterjames]

I'm just playing with this now, but unfortunately, these feeds contain a lot of extra information in the form of links etc. so I'm not sure how doable this will be without writing a special plugin for it.  Unless there is some kind of rss service that can clean feeds up automatically, and then you could scrape that.

In any case, I suspect that trying to listen to a TTS voice (even a good one) reading this much material is going to get old very fast.

[Christian]

ok, I see..

But if you used some kind of rss reader with an API who could send the feeds to VC, would that be doable?
I'm no programmer (yet) so I have no clue what is possible, but I stumbled upon these links, maby it is possible to use this in any way?

This one is just a description of Google feed:
http://code.google.com/intl/no-NO/apis/feed/

But this one was a bit intersting.. It is the Google Code playground with a lot of different API info..
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#load_feed

You have probably seen them before, but if not maby you can get something out of it, not just for this topic, but for others as well.

When it comes to the link I posted, is this a more usable link?
http://www1.vg.no/rss/create.php

Just want to see how you set it up, so I can learn from it, but if it's a big hassle it's no biggie.