Hi Jonathan,

> able to (thanks to MythTV's pedigree) import a 'TV guide' based on
> the central classroom schedule every 15 minutes, and the MythTV
> servers then automatically find and record the courses we mark for
> podcasting (wherever or whenever they are held)--much like a Tivo's

We do something that is similar though not quite the same; we allow
instructors to come to a self service page, which shows them (from our
campus information system) which classes are available for them to
record, then hits the matterhorn rest endpoints if they sign up.

This isn't a live mirror then of our campus system; once it is in
Matterhorn it's static so we have to make manual changes there if the
class is moved or something similar.

>                 In testing Matterhorn, I have seen mention of the
> ability to import schedule data in ical format, but the intended
> scope of such and import is not clear to me: Can I import a general
> schedule of events that could be selected from when scheduling a
> recording; or is it simply an alternate means of entering the
> meta/schedule data for particular recordings?

The latter.  Capture agents can consume ical to schedule from.  If
you're not using Matterhoern capture agents, then the scheduling
doesn't provide any significant benefit to you.  The Admin pages
themselves can't import from ical, only a capture agent does.  So you
could get matterhorn capture agents up to use your current myth
scheduling, for instance, if it outputs to ical...

Chris
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Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc
ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan

Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938
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Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory
     Department of Computer Science
     University of Saskatchewan
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     110 Science Place
     Saskatoon, SK
     S7N 5C9
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