MiLB.tv

In 2013, mlbviewer got a significant rewrite and the addition of a number of new features. It seemed like a much more logical approach to integrate MiLB.tv into mlbviewer rather than duplicate the code in a separate project.

Quick Overview of MiLB.tv Integration

1. MiLB.tv login can re-use user= and pass= settings if MiLB.tv credentials are
   the same as MLB.tv. If they are different, use milb_user= and milb_pass=
   in ~/.mlb/config to set the MiLB.tv user and pass.

2. 'M' key switches mode to MiLB.tv.

3. Left, Right, Up, Down, Jump to specific date (j key) all work as expected

4. Line scores (b key) and box scores (x key) available in MiLB.tv as well as
   MLB.tv mode.

5. Master scoreboard view (m key) is not supported for MiLB.tv mode.

6. Standings is not supported in MiLB.tv mode.

7. Highlights, gameday audio streams, condensed games, coverage selection (home
   vs away), nexdef, speed selection, and jump to innings are all not supported in
   MiLB.tv.

8. MiLB.tv has only one stream and one speed. Hope you like it. ;)

Features that actually work, accidentally work (inherited code from mlbviewer) or mostly work are...

Favorite Team Highlighting

Find the three letter code for your favorite minor league team and add it as
a favorite= option in your ~/.mlb/config. One way to find it is to highlight
a game in the listings and press the 'z' key:

For example, to add Omaha Storm Chasers, this is the listing:

4:35 PM: Tucson Padres at Omaha Storm Chasers

and the z key debug:

({'home': u'oma', 'away': u'tuc'}, datetime.datetime(2013, 5, 20, 16, 35), [(u'', u'541', u'26891883', ''), (u'', u'549', u'26891883', '')], [], None, 'P', u'2013/05/20/tucaaa-omaaaa-1', u'media_dead')

Omaha is the home team so their teamcode is 'oma'.

In ~/.mlb/config,

favorite=oma

Restart mlbviewer and enter MiLB.tv mode and Omaha's games will be highlighted either with favorite_color= (if use_color=1) or underlined (if use_color=0.)

Line scores and Box scores

Line scores ('b') and box scores ('x') work as expected. No caveats.

RSS mostly works

If favorite= contains an minor league team, when RSS is opened in MiLB mode
using the 'w' key, the feed for that team (or teams) will be opened. Other
teams can be selected via their teamcode as well but the feed may be incomplete
(still working this out.)

milblistings.py and milbplay.py

MiLB.tv can be scripted just like MLB.tv with the use of milblistings.py and
milbplay.py.

Unlike mlbplay.py, the three letter team codes are collected and entered into
the TEAMCODES data structure dynamically when the listings are retrieved.
This means milblistings.py should be used first to determine whether a desired
team is on the schedule for the day. If the team does not have a broadcast
that day, milbplay may report an invalid teamcode error. Also different from
mlblistings.py and mlbplay.py, event-id's (E: column in mlblistings) are
not really used in MiLB.tv but content-id's (which are usually determined
dynamically in MLB.tv) are in the MiLB.tv listings. Since MiLB.tv does
not support condensed games, the c= parameter in milbplay allows the
selection of a particular stream (e.g. a particular game in a double-header)
by content-id.
Sample milblistings:

$ ./milblistings.py | grep lou
P: 12:33 AM: 2013/05/20/louaaa-gwiaaa-2 C: 27254905
P: 2:05 PM: 2013/05/20/louaaa-gwiaaa-1 C: 26891849

Without c= parameter,

$ ./milbplay.py v=lou z=1
media = [[(u'', u'431', u'27254905', ''), (u'', u'416', u'27254905', '')], [(u'', u'431', u'26891849', ''), (u'', u'416', u'26891849', '')]]
prefer = (u'', u'416', u'26891849', '')

The 2013/05/20/louaaa-gwiaaa-1 stream will be selected. To select the
2013/05/20/louaaa-gwiaaa-2 stream, use the content-id (c= parameter):

$ ./milbplay.py v=lou c=27254905 z=1
media = [[(u'', u'431', u'27254905', ''), (u'', u'416', u'27254905', '')], [(u'', u'431', u'26891849', ''), (u'', u'416', u'26891849', '')]]
prefer = (u'', u'416', u'27254905', '')

z=1 is media debug flag to display the preferred content without taking any
action. Remove the z=1 flag to play the stream.