I thought I’d make a quick post on how to use Psi’s new Execute Command feature. This is an implementation of JEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients, which is a document which describes a profile of Ad-Hoc Commands.

First, you have to be logged in twice. It could be two logins from the same computer, but that’s not very useful now is it? In this example I’m going to remotely control my home instance of Psi from my work laptop.

So, find yourself in your roster. Your “self-contact” will be at the top, right under the account name. Note that unlike previous versions of Psi, this self-contact will appear automatically whenever it detects multiple resources logged in. (It goes away if you are only logged in from one client.) Right click on that bad boy and you’ll see the options below:

Choose your other resource, and you’ll see a window like this one below. In 0.11-beta2 there is only the one command available, although the development branch and subsequent releases will have several other features.

Here is what the Set Status command looks like. I think the usage is pretty self-explanatory.