1. A monitoring method, comprising: selecting, from a plurality of multimedia handling devices, via a test platform network, a multimedia handling device as a unit under test, wherein each of the plurality of multimedia handling devices is: accessible via the test platform network; and configured to receive multimedia content from a multimedia content distribution network; selecting a test script comprising a plurality of test operations wherein test operations control the unit under test via the test platform network; indicating a value for a test execution parameter associated with the test script; executing the test script according to the test execution parameter; sending a power control command to a test platform network power controller, to control power supplied to the multimedia handling device; identifying a particular frame acquisition input from a plurality of frame acquisition inputs; and coupling a baseband signal output by the unit under test to the particular frame acquisition input.