Pirate Radio VLC play/pause cron command

@khaiin wrote:

Hello Pi Gurus, :wave:

I’ve set up the Pirate Radio kit with the VLC and added some online radio’s into it. All works fine and the VLC is on 24/7.

I’ve been trying to figure out, how to create a cron job to send play/pause to VLC. Haven’t found any answer on the internet or my skill is too low to recognize the solution. Is there a simple command or script I could use to automatically play/pause the VLC?

I could probably just kill the VLC and execute a new instance to start it anew. But I want to have also ability to play/pause anytime between.

Automated scenario should be:
weekdays start at 8am and stop at 10am, start at 4pm stop at 10pm
weekends start at 8am and stop at 10pm
have ability to play/pause the radio anytime between

Thanks a bunch.
Humbly yours, noob.

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