[Macpartners] select airplay device from command line

[Duncan S Kincaid]

using applescript is worse than i thought if there are multiple AirPlay stations,
as these are randomly listed, and applescript is simply selecting popup menu item by 'item number' not name.



On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Duncan S Kincaid <dsk at MIT.EDU>
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> one of the things i most love of apple and OS X is that most everything is accessible from the shell.
> 'most' everything…
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> i cannot find a way to select a particular AirPlay device (AppleTV with AirPlay enabled).
> i see one can do it from applescript (once enabling access for assistive devices), but this is far from elegant.
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> does anyone know how to do this from the bash shell?
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> with thanks
> dk
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duncan kincaid
cron | mit school of architecture and planning