# Automation software that works with Spinitron

**URL:** <https://forum.spinitron.com/t/automation-software-that-works-with-spinitron/142>\
**Category:** 🗂 Management\
**Tags:** automation, guide\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/automation-software-that-works-with-spinitron/142 "2020-04-15T00:26:50Z")\
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> [@benners](#):
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> Does Spinitron integrate with Apex automation software made by Arrakis Systems?

Not as far as I know. The last time we researched Arrakis it was not going to work. The situation might have changed but I haven’t looked for some years.

> [@benners](#):
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> Is it possible to have a “single source of truth” for our station’s weekly program schedule? Right now we must maintain 3 separate schedules (Apex automation, Spinitron, Wordpress) and it’s a lot to manage for our volunteer-driven team. We would love for any changes made in our automation software to automatically update the Spinitron schedule/calendar.

Spinitron cannot import schedule information at all. The only way to get it in there is through the web UI.

Spinitron allows output of the schedule in two ways: via [the API](https://spinitron.github.io/v2api/) or via [web integration](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/web-integration/146). Either of these can be used to eliminate the WP/Spinitron redundancy. It might be possible to use some custom scripts to feed data from the API to Apex.

> [@benners](#):
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> We are currently re-evaluating our automation software. Do any of the above listed automation options stand out for their level of integration with Spinitron?

First, the above list is old and therefore probably has errors or updates necessary.

Second, getting now-playing info from automation into Spinitron is going out of fashion. A lot of stations have switched to using automatic music recognition even though it can’t know what album you’re playing.

Third, we’ve never done any program schedules integration with automation and I don’t recall discussing it before.

There’s always [MetaRadio](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/metaradio-sophisticated-metadata-push/1344) which integrates Spinitron as both an input and output. Free trial.

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