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Projects for 2019 - Smartzap

A project log for Tecedi SmartZap: Adblock for TV

Control a HDMI switch with your Raspberry Pi and watch something interesting during TV ads.

pixjuanPixJuan 01/10/2019 at 22:400 Comments

Hello Followers and project members!

As a bright new year is starting, I thought I would write a log for each of my project.

I don't watch much "live" TV nowadays so I lack some motivation to develop further this project but I will probably improve/add a feature this year to leave this project in a more finished state.
Meanwhile, if you are interested in adblocking you should definitively check what this fellow french guy has done for radio : https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/11/15/designing-audio-ad-block-radio-podcast/

All the ideas I was only considering(and even more!), he has actually implemented them. I think that the method he uses for radio could easily be used for TV, the audio of TV ads can be fingerprinted the same way it is done for audio only radio ads, so I will probably test his project with TV streams.

I'll keep you updated, meanwhile I wish you a happy new year and a happy hacking!

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