Applescript to turn Airplay Mirroring on

tell application "System Preferences"

set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.displays"

activate

end tell

tell application "System Events"

tell process "System Preferences"

clickpop up button 1 of window 1

clickmenu item 2 of menu 1 of pop up button 1 of window 1

end tell

end tell

tell application "System Preferences"

quit

end tell

Oguz ARDUC: Applescript for Activating Airplay Mirroring on OS X ...

Hi,

I'm trying to send the Mac Mini output on startup directly to my Apple TV, and as per what I'm seeing here this is the way to accomplish, thing is, I've never used a Mac as a sys admin, thus I don't know where to place the script, could you tell me where?

Thanks

Hi, sorry for my english

This script worked for a while in Mountain Lion

After updating to Yosemite it don't work anymore.

I'am not a Apple Script Writer, so could perhaps somebody modify this script for Yosemite?

Thanks a lot

Moothor

The most simple and reliable way I have found to do this is to have applescript click on the Displays Menu item in menu bar 1 and then use keystrokes to arrow down to the correct item and then press return.

For some reason, Yosemite doesn't seem to want to enumerate the sub menu which is why the scripts above have stopped working.

Your sub menu may be different from mine if you have more airplay devices or if your displays appear in a different order. You may need to add more keystrokes to choose the right item from the sub menu. Key code 125 is down arrow, add more of those if you need menu items further down the list.

tell application "System Events"

tell process "SystemUIServer"

click (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 whose description contains "Displays Menu")

key code 125

keystrokereturn

delay 5

end tell

end tell