diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3e6818f..1e391b8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ version = "1.0.66"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "216261ddc8289130e551ddcd5ce8a064710c0d064a4d2895c67151c92b5443f6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "atty"
+version = "0.2.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d9b39be18770d11421cdb1b9947a45dd3f37e93092cbf377614828a319d5fee8"
+dependencies = [
+ "hermit-abi",
+ "libc",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "autocfg"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -87,6 +98,43 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clap"
+version = "4.0.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "335867764ed2de42325fafe6d18b8af74ba97ee0c590fa016f157535b42ab04b"
+dependencies = [
+ "atty",
+ "bitflags",
+ "clap_derive",
+ "clap_lex",
+ "once_cell",
+ "strsim",
+ "termcolor",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_derive"
+version = "4.0.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "16a1b0f6422af32d5da0c58e2703320f379216ee70198241c84173a8c5ac28f3"
+dependencies = [
+ "heck",
+ "proc-macro-error",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_lex"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0d4198f73e42b4936b35b5bb248d81d2b595ecb170da0bac7655c54eedfa8da8"
+dependencies = [
+ "os_str_bytes",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "codespan-reporting"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -97,6 +145,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-width",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "confy"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e37668cb35145dcfaa1931a5f37fde375eeae8068b4c0d2f289da28a270b2d2c"
+dependencies = [
+ "directories",
+ "serde",
+ "thiserror",
+ "toml",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation-sys"
 version = "0.8.3"
@@ -211,6 +271,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "crypto-common",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "directories"
+version = "4.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f51c5d4ddabd36886dd3e1438cb358cdcb0d7c499cb99cb4ac2e38e18b5cb210"
+dependencies = [
+ "dirs-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "dirs-sys"
+version = "0.3.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1b1d1d91c932ef41c0f2663aa8b0ca0342d444d842c06914aa0a7e352d0bada6"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "redox_users",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fnv"
 version = "1.0.7"
@@ -297,6 +377,12 @@ version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "heck"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2540771e65fc8cb83cd6e8a237f70c319bd5c29f78ed1084ba5d50eeac86f7f9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hermit-abi"
 version = "0.1.19"
@@ -490,7 +576,10 @@ name = "obs-cli"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
+ "clap",
+ "confy",
  "obws",
+ "serde",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
@@ -523,6 +612,12 @@ version = "1.15.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e82dad04139b71a90c080c8463fe0dc7902db5192d939bd0950f074d014339e1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "os_str_bytes"
+version = "6.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3baf96e39c5359d2eb0dd6ccb42c62b91d9678aa68160d261b9e0ccbf9e9dea9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "parking_lot"
 version = "0.12.1"
@@ -570,6 +665,30 @@ version = "0.2.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "eb9f9e6e233e5c4a35559a617bf40a4ec447db2e84c20b55a6f83167b7e57872"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-error"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "da25490ff9892aab3fcf7c36f08cfb902dd3e71ca0f9f9517bea02a73a5ce38c"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro-error-attr",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+ "version_check",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-error-attr"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a1be40180e52ecc98ad80b184934baf3d0d29f979574e439af5a55274b35f869"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "version_check",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.47"
@@ -627,6 +746,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_users"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b033d837a7cf162d7993aded9304e30a83213c648b6e389db233191f891e5c2b"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+ "redox_syscall",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rgb"
 version = "0.8.34"
@@ -902,6 +1032,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "tungstenite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "toml"
+version = "0.5.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8d82e1a7758622a465f8cee077614c73484dac5b836c02ff6a40d5d1010324d7"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
 version = "0.1.37"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c22cfd6..3048d0e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,3 +9,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 obws = "0.10.0-beta.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["full"] }
 anyhow = "1.0"
+clap = { version = "4.0.18", features = ["derive"] }
+confy = "0.5.1"
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index d426840..2db7a08 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,18 +1,113 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
 use obws::Client;
+use clap::Parser;
+
+use tokio::time::{sleep_until, Instant, Duration};
+use tokio::process::Command;
+use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let args = Args::parse();
+
+     // Load run config
+    let cfg: RunConfig = match confy::load("obs-cli", None) {
+        Ok(cfg) => cfg,
+        Err(e) => {
+            println!("Error: {}", e);
+            RunConfig::default()
+        }
+    };
+
+    // Print the recording details
+    println!("Recording starts in {}min for {}min", args.start_minutes, args.duration_minutes);
+
+    // Wait the given amount of time
+    sleep_until(Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(args.start_minutes * 60)).await;
+
     // Connect to the OBS instance through obs-websocket.
-    let client = Client::connect("localhost", 4455, Some("OBS")).await?;
+    let client = Client::connect("localhost", cfg.websocket_port, Some(cfg.websocket_password)).await?;
 
-    // Get and print out version information of OBS and obs-websocket.
-    let version = client.general().version().await?;
-    println!("{:#?}", version);
+    if let Ok(active) = is_recording(&client).await {
+        if active {
+            println!("Already recording. Exiting...");
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Start the recording
+    start_recording(&client).await?;
+    println!("Recording started.");
+
+    // Wait for the recording to finish
+    sleep_until(Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(args.duration_minutes * 60)).await;
+
+    // Stop the recording
+    stop_recording(&client).await?;
+    println!("Recording stopped.");
+
+    // Shutdown the machine
+    if args.poweroff {
+        // Wait a minute to give OBS some time to write data
+        sleep_until(Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(60)).await;
+        shutdown().await?;
+    }
 
-    // Get a list of available scenes and print them out.
-    let scene_list = client.scenes().list().await?;
-    println!("{:#?}", scene_list);
 
     Ok(())
 }
+
+async fn start_recording(client: &Client) -> Result<(), obws::Error> {
+    client.recording().start().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+async fn stop_recording(client: &Client) -> Result<(), obws::Error> {
+    client.recording().stop().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+async fn is_recording(client: &Client) -> Result<bool, obws::Error> {
+    let status = client.recording().status().await?;
+    Ok(status.active)
+}
+
+async fn shutdown() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
+    Command::new("poweroff").spawn().expect("Could not spawn process").wait().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+
+// obs-cli is a simple cli tool for planned obs recordings
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+   /// Define the minutes where the recording should start
+   #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 0)]
+   start_minutes: u64,
+
+   /// Define the duration of the recording in minutes
+   #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 1)]
+   duration_minutes: u64,
+
+   /// Flag to shutdown the machine after recording.
+   #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = false)]
+   poweroff: bool,
+}
+
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
+struct RunConfig {
+    websocket_port: u16, 
+    websocket_password: String,
+}
+
+/// `RunConfig` implements `Default`
+impl ::std::default::Default for RunConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self { 
+        Self { 
+            websocket_port: 4455, 
+            websocket_password: "Websocket".to_string()
+        } 
+    }
+}
+