Starting airplay from command line, to send output of 'Say' Mac OS X command to airplay Ok, Sunday question :) Trying to make a little joke...


if you open a terminal, and type "say -a ?", Mac OS X will give you the list of devices it can send spoken words to. On mine, it says:

39 AirPlay
47 Built-in Output

I have a Denon airplay-ready received in my living room and I'm trying to send spoken words to my wife downstairs... I can send music without any problem using iTunes so, from an infrastructure standpoint, I'm all set.
I want my computer to say (out of the blue) "Honey, why don't you bring me a cup of coffee". I can make it say that locally on my internal laptop speakers, but I can't seem to send that to device 39 successfully.


I am suspecting that there are a few other things that need to be setup before it works, i.e. setting up airplay output to "denon", maybe opening a channel and reserving it. I don't know.

Has anyone played with this? Is there a way to setup airplay from the command line? That would be awesome :)
I was playing with this a couple of weeks ago.

To send to my Apple Tv via airplay I used

 say -r160 -a "AirPlay" "Hover over a Method name while holding down the Option key until a question mark  appears"


One thing I noticed at the time was that I sometimes would have to run a second command to switch the audio back to the computer.

 say -r160 -a "AirPlay" "Hover over a Method";say -r160 -a "Built-in Output" "I am back"


*update
Just tested using the numbers and they work just as well in place of the device name.