foursquare integration

There's no Foursquare integration at present. If someone wants to contribute server and client code for that then we'd be happy to work with them.

Cheers

Alex

Hi alex,

  just show me here i get informations to do this,

  files in server, files in client

have oauth in xibo ?

How i said, i dont write one line in codes, but i´ll find some friend thats do this for us, or i´ll pay one developer to do.

Of course if some one thats write codes in python and in C# thats LOVE do this we´ll be really happy! hehe

One sugestion thats i have:

          we need doing other icon like microblog to each integration and change microblog to twitter, this will make more easy to use the interface.

It's not trivial and to precisely describe everything that would have to be done would take me almost as long as implementing it.

Basically you'd have to write a new server module for Foursquare. That would have to be designed and somehow give the client machines access to the Foursquare API via OAuth - which isn't a scenario we've ever tackled yet so it's hard to say how that could work.

The server module would write out a new chunk of XML in to the XLF files for layouts which describes what information to pull from Foursquare and how to format it.

Both clients would then need to be updated to know how to interpret that new XLF coding and have the ability to connect in to the Foursquare API to pull data.

You'd also need to cache those results in the client so that it continues to work if the client is offline for some reason (failed internet connection or whatever).

I would be very strongly against changing the Microblog module to say Twitter - partly because Twitter is a brand name and secondly because there's no reason to remove functionality for people who pull results from Identi.ca given that their APIs are identical. Twitter is just an example of a Microblog, as is Identi.ca. Xibo will therefore continue to talk to both assuming they continue to provide unauthenticated access to their search API.

Alex