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  • merikus@lemmy.worldtoApple@lemmy.world•Question of the week: What was the most clever way you’ve ever used an Apple product to solve a problem?
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    11 months ago

    About ten years ago a dear friend and I started a community radio station. In order to make our FCC license more competitive, we started internet streaming pretty early on.

    We had great community buy-in, but we needed to broadcast 24/7 and decided to record and rebroadcast live shows.

    We had no money, just a MacMini. So we had to do everything with things that came with MacOS or were free or near free.

    We ended up creating a pretty impressive interlinking set of AppleScripts, Automator apps, and iTunes Smart Playlists, all driven by Calendar alarms. Calendar alarms would start recordings, which would use the magic import to iTunes folder to get it into iTunes. This would then move into a smart playlist that was set to look for certain tags and only have the most recent audio file with those tags in it.

    When a rebroadcast would come up, it was pretty simple. A calendar alarm would trigger an AppleScript that triggered one of these Smart Playlists.

    It all worked well for a long time. Ultimately we got our FCC license, and donations allowed us to improve our IT. But this station ran on iTunes, AudioHijack, AppleScript, Automator, and Calendar alarms for years.

  • merikus@lemmy.worldtoApple@lemmy.world•Multiple HomeKit hubs
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    1 year ago

    Huh. Well, there goes that idea.

    Next I would try removing the AppleTV from the Home. Force the HomePod to be the hub and see if scenes work.

    If that doesn’t work, I’d try completely starting your Home over, with the first device you connect being the HomePod and the second being the AppleTV. I realize that’s not ideal but you’re having abnormal behavior here. I have an AppleTV, HomePod, and HomePod Mini on a network with multiple smart devices and everything works fine.