What Can I Do With my Mac Over SSH?

• open a livestream in VLC via command line
  open -a VLC.app "http://stream.relay.fm:8000/stream"
open -a "Quicktime Player" may also work (only if stream is currently live)
  useful livestream URLs
  • Relay FM
    http://stream.relay.fm:8000/stream
  • The Incomparabletheincomparable.com http://www.theincomperable.com:4200/live
  • Accidental Tech Podcast
    http://marco.org:8001/listen
• mute macOS volume via command line
  osascript -e 'set volume output muted true'
osascript -e 'set volume output muted false'
• start an iTunes playlist with shuffle on
  osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to shuffle enabled' -e 'tell application "iTunes" to play playlist named "best"'
osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to stop'

Future ideas
• start/stop Quicktime screen recordings on macOS via iOS shortcuts. Running into saving problems. Also complex enough that AppleScript files will be downloaded to Mac.
• clipboard via SSH. Sometimes Handoff clipboard fails me, would be nice to have a backup. Should be able to go either way
• If there is interest, I might try to package these up more as a sharable shortcut

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