AirControl

Simple utility for controlling AirPlay Display Mirroring from the command line.

Installation

ln -s $PWD/aircontrol ~/bin  # assuming ~/bin is on your PATH

If you want tab completion and have bash-completion installed, then install aircontrol completion:

ln -s $PWD/aircontrol-completion.bash /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/aircontrol-completion.bash

Usage

Mirror display to Apple TV named "2nd Floor Lounge":

aircontrol "2nd Floor Lounge"

The first time you do this, you'll be prompted to grant accessibility access to "Terminal" (or iTerm, if that's your thing). Go into System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy and check the box for "Terminal". You won't be prompte for this in the future.

Stop mirroring:

aircontrol -k

Completion:

aircontrol 2nd<TAB>
# expands to
aircontrol 2nd\ Floor\ Lounge
# assuming such a device is on your local network

In action

Details

For details on how we built it, please check out this blog post: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/terminal/2014/09/26/introducing-aircontrol-control-airplay-through-terminal.html

Contributors

• Timothée Boucher https://github.com/Timothee
• Eric Allen https://github.com/epall
• Kyle Engibous https://github.com/kengibous