Need Shortcut for iMac to start Airplay...

[Todisco]

Here is my situation - I have an iMac sitting in a room upstairs and my AppleTV is downstairs. It is more than mildly inconvenient to run upstairs, turn on Mirroring so I can watch Hulu or ESPN on the big screen downstairs (plays beautifully by the way).

I tried with my iPad to use Splashtop to remotely access the iMac and turn on Airplay - the problem is once I exit out of Splashtop on the iPad, Airplay disconnects.

The only solution I can think of is use a program like MobileMouse and use a keyboard shortcut to direct AirPlay to play on the AppleTV.

My question is how would I go about setting up a keyboard shortcut like this or does anyone have any other solutions?



Thanks!

 

[GimmeSlack12]

You could probably use Applescript and EventScripts app to do it.
Or you could just use a terminal command alias to run an Applescript on your iPhone/iPad.
Or possibly automator?
Or get a real VNC app (Remoter VNC is great) instead of Splashtop.
If anything you can go to the Keyboard preferences and setup a key command, but that's not the most elegant solution.

Just some thoughts.

EDIT: Here's the Applescript code I found, have not tried this

 tell application "System Preferences"
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
click pop up button 1 of window 1
click menu item 2 of menu 1 of pop up button 1 of window 1
end tell
end tell

tell application "System Preferences"
quit
end tell