(Note this is not about the official jquerui slider widget, but about  this one from filament group).

How can I move the slider handle programmatically using a play/pause button and a setTimeout, so that it behaves like timeline moving to the next tick every two or three seconds (and triggering of course the change event)?

See this url for an example what I want, except that it doesn't work as I wish.

I've struggled with sliderOptions("value", currentValue + 1) but I don't know how to tie this to an existing, instance of the slider. When using $('#slider').selectToUISlider( ..., sliderOptions()), it will create another instance of the slider ... Any live examples?

Thanks for any pointers!