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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDWestoby" data-source="post: 843156" data-attributes="member: 72093">Nothing can do this.Johan has (very nicely, patiently and kindly) been trying to show me that what I done is already there (in the various remote plugins).But I don't think this is the case.There is nothing that allows automating MP using simple commands - only extensive programming.(Try driving iPiMP [which uses MPClientController] by code. You'll need to learn/use JSON)If there were why isn't there (the reason I started this) a 'clock radio'?I have a simple clock plugin and I could add code to [try] to play the radio, but why bother?(I did try/manage to do this but it would only play for a few seconds and then stopped, heartbeat wasn't the problem but never did find out what was wrong.)Anyway, this is solving the wrong problem.Far better to have a button pushing robot - which is what this is.(I trundled through the MP source and guess what - it does a SendKeys.SendWait too, so all I've done is duplicate what MP does but in a way that is accessible from the 'outside'.)So, work out what buttons to press to achieve what you want and then replicate it in simple '<Auto...' telnet/socket calls.Now this can be done from another PC (hence automation)    ORfrom the same PC (now my radio clock is trivial).I don't have to write media handling code (which I freely admit I can't do), just a few simple button pushes.If someone can show me a clock radio (not the one that plays a media file) then I'll still say this is better because I can change my 'clock radio' into a 'clock tv' or a 'clock media' or 'clock recording' by changing the calls - trivially!No heavy lifting required.I have now got easy access to anything that MP can doI repeat, all this does is press the right button.</blockquote>

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