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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 472"><p>I love this idea! Outlook has an API so it's certainly possible but it does raise a few issues. If you are using a dedicated computer for Media Portal (as opposed to running it on your primary computer) then it would be running against a stand-along Outlook calendar as well. Unless you use Exchange server you can't share a calendar across computers easily. Ideally all program events would be setup as single or recurring appointments in Outlook and that could drive the recording. Then reminders for shows would prompt the TV features, and other reminders could appear as OSD's within whatever display was being used.</p><p></p><p>If Outlook could be used across machines this would be much more usable, though it would still be very useful. Perhaps a more adaptable way of handling this would be to run a daemon on the machine used to host Outlook and it could act as a gateway so the Media Portal PC would be configured where to find the portal and could access the calendar that way. New emails could also trigger screen events if certain rules were matched.</p><p></p><p>Great idea, but it might need a little fleshing out. Basically turns your TV into more of a hub than ever!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 472"] I love this idea! Outlook has an API so it's certainly possible but it does raise a few issues. If you are using a dedicated computer for Media Portal (as opposed to running it on your primary computer) then it would be running against a stand-along Outlook calendar as well. Unless you use Exchange server you can't share a calendar across computers easily. Ideally all program events would be setup as single or recurring appointments in Outlook and that could drive the recording. Then reminders for shows would prompt the TV features, and other reminders could appear as OSD's within whatever display was being used. If Outlook could be used across machines this would be much more usable, though it would still be very useful. Perhaps a more adaptable way of handling this would be to run a daemon on the machine used to host Outlook and it could act as a gateway so the Media Portal PC would be configured where to find the portal and could access the calendar that way. New emails could also trigger screen events if certain rules were matched. Great idea, but it might need a little fleshing out. Basically turns your TV into more of a hub than ever! [/QUOTE]
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