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Greetings,
After moving to a new house, I've decided that I want to be able to control itunes vocally from various different locations in the building. Rather than trying to run 50 ft microphone cables to a computer hooked up to the main stero system downstairs, I've been using a sattelite computer running simple itunes control applescripts through speakable items. These events are passed to the computer hooked up to the stereo through the apple remote events sharing service. The problem is that this service is very flaky...
The syntax is simple enough, e.g.
(after having turned on remote apple events on ibook, and setting an OS9 password)
issue #1: OS X user accounts and passwords do not authenticate properly, but using a blank username and the password set for OS 9 events does work.
issue #2: It asks for authentication every single bloody time... and the option to remember the password in keychain doesn't work at all.
curiously, though... running these scripts directly from the script editor does not require any authentication. On a whim I decided to try using "eppc://name
assword@ibook.local" but that didn't do anything either.
Is there anyway to circumvent this constant authentication? Perhaps making computers trusted hosts of one another...? Maybe there is a voice activated iTunes remote that does this already??? Maybe there is a better way to go about it, but I wonder how i could remedy the applescript auth. issue.
(note: these are applescripts saved as applications)
thanks,
graham
After moving to a new house, I've decided that I want to be able to control itunes vocally from various different locations in the building. Rather than trying to run 50 ft microphone cables to a computer hooked up to the main stero system downstairs, I've been using a sattelite computer running simple itunes control applescripts through speakable items. These events are passed to the computer hooked up to the stereo through the apple remote events sharing service. The problem is that this service is very flaky...
The syntax is simple enough, e.g.
Code:
tell application "iTunes" of machine "eppc://ibook.local"
next track
end tellissue #1: OS X user accounts and passwords do not authenticate properly, but using a blank username and the password set for OS 9 events does work.
issue #2: It asks for authentication every single bloody time... and the option to remember the password in keychain doesn't work at all.
curiously, though... running these scripts directly from the script editor does not require any authentication. On a whim I decided to try using "eppc://name
assword@ibook.local" but that didn't do anything either.Is there anyway to circumvent this constant authentication? Perhaps making computers trusted hosts of one another...? Maybe there is a voice activated iTunes remote that does this already??? Maybe there is a better way to go about it, but I wonder how i could remedy the applescript auth. issue.
(note: these are applescripts saved as applications)
thanks,
graham