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The AI set up his TV guide system, wrote the missing guide parsers, and runs it daily on his server

For football season a man pointed the AI at his utility server and had it set up Dispatcharr, a TV guide system. Finding his 50 channels among 80,000, with guide data that does not always work, is the hard part of this setup. The AI got it configured, wrote scripts to parse channel guides from sources the built in guide misses, scheduled them to update daily, and deployed the whole thing.

How it works

  1. He points the AI at his utility server
  2. The AI configures the guide system around the 50 channels he cares about out of 80,000
  3. It writes scripts to parse guides from sources the built in data misses
  4. It schedules the scripts to update daily and deploys the system

Why it’s worth knowing

The setup pain here is famous among people who run these systems. The agent did the whole configuration and left it running on a daily schedule.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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