Goal

One thing my wife and her friends all love is the PBS show, Downton Abbey and they have tried to build a habit of watching it at the same time. They all tune in, turn on a conference call and laugh and share jokes about the show. 

I wanted to build an app that would remind the group to tune in and check to see who had tuned in upon show time and alert the group if someone was missing. This would work by building an IFTTT connection to send an SMS to the group 15 minutes before each episode and then using a photosensor, 5 minutes after showtime check to see if the TV was on. If it was not on, then the device would post a tweet and funny photo to twitter alerting the group that someone had not joined. 

Locally,  LEDs would signify to the local user if the program was running, if Downton Abbey was on, and if the TV was on.