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<blockquote data-quote="JDWestoby" data-source="post: 842889" data-attributes="member: 72093">(I actually looked at that and MPClientController (which iPiMP uses) before I worked out what I actually wanted.)Anyway, answer -Because that doesn't know how to press buttons.More precisely it doesn't know WHAT button it is pressing.With this, you ask it to press &quot;BBC ONE&quot; and it finds it and presses it.Try doing that blind with anything else!That's why this is for automation - another computer can't look at the screen and say &quot;oh, I need to go up&quot; - you can.I've said that I use HomeSeer, but the truth is anything that sends massages could run this.Even bland old telnet can now turn on the Radio/TV onto the correct station (just give it an input file of commands to send).Literally I can GUARANTEE that the following will tune to 'BBC Radio One' on my set up&lt;Auto Screen=&quot;Radio&quot;/&gt;&lt;Auto Press=&quot;..&quot;/&gt;&lt;Auto Press=&quot;FreeView Radio&quot;/&gt;&lt;Auto Press=&quot;BBC Radion One&quot;/&gt;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JDWestoby, post: 842889, member: 72093"] (I actually looked at that and MPClientController (which iPiMP uses) before I worked out what I actually wanted.) Anyway, answer - Because that doesn't know how to press buttons. More precisely it doesn't know WHAT button it is pressing. With this, you ask it to press "BBC ONE" and it finds it and presses it. Try doing that blind with anything else! That's why this is for automation - another computer can't look at the screen and say "oh, I need to go up" - you can. I've said that I use HomeSeer, but the truth is anything that sends massages could run this. Even bland old telnet can now turn on the Radio/TV onto the correct station (just give it an input file of commands to send). Literally I can GUARANTEE that the following will tune to 'BBC Radio One' on my set up <Auto Screen="Radio"/> <Auto Press=".."/> <Auto Press="FreeView Radio"/> <Auto Press="BBC Radion One"/> [/QUOTE]

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