tell remote control to
Control the presentation of media content available on a remote device using the tell remote control
to function.
The functions in the devices
namespace allow the Calliope mini to communicate with a separate (remote) device,
such as a smartphone, over Bluetooth (Smart).
The set of supported events will depend on the remote device and the Calliope mini apps available for the remote device.
devices.tellRemoteControlTo(event: string)
Parameters
- event - an event identifier
Event values
- play
- stop
- pause
- forward
- rewind
- volume up
- volume down
- previous track
- next track
Examples
To tell the connected device to start playing:
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("play")
To tell the connected device to stop playing
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("stop")
To tell the connected device to go to next track
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("next track")
To tell the connected device to go to previous track
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("previous track")
To tell the connected device to go forward
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("forward")
To tell the connected device to rewind
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("rewind")
To tell the connected device volume up
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("volume up")
To tell the connected device volume down
devices.tellRemoteControlTo("volume down")
See also
tell camera to, raise alert to
devices