How can I manually start a Camel Route through Spring XML? - java

I've got my route's autoStart set to false:
<route id="myRoute" autoStartup="false">
Everything I can find online about how to start it after that is for starting it in java and says to call startRoute("myRoute"); on the camelContext.. but I can't find anything about how to call that from within a route in Spring XML.
Here's my setup:
<route id="myRoute" autoStartup="false">
<from uri="ftp://remote/dir" />
<to uri="file:///local/dir" />
</route>
<route id="kickOff">
<from uri="timer://runOnce?repeatCount=1&delay=30000" />
<!-- START myRoute HERE -->
<to uri="bean:postProcessor?method=postProcess" />
</route>
My goal is to have the FTP get all the files on the FTP once, then stop that route. Currently it'll continue polling the FTP indefinitely. I tried adding a org.apache.camel.impl.LimitedPollingConsumerPollStrategy with a limit of 1 but that didn't seem to change anything.

See the controlbus eip / component where you can start routes:
http://camel.apache.org/controlbus.html
The code should be something alike:
<route id="kickOff">
<from uri="timer://runOnce?repeatCount=1&delay=30000" />
<to uri="controlbus:route?routeId=myRoute&action=start" />
<to uri="bean:postProcessor?method=postProcess" />
</route>

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