The closest I've gotten is being a little hacker and written a wget script to download from SOHO, but I feel like that's cheating compared to you ;-)
...but beware the unrelenting "I need bigger aperture and to travel to better-seeing locations".
that's one of the compelling reasons to get into solar observations. if we ever get to a point of worrying about light pollution blocking our view of the sun...
my current astro rig is specific for deep sky objects, and is a very wide angle telescope. when i observe the moon, maybe 50% of the FOV is the moon, so i want a different scope for viewing solar system objects that I can then attach said solar filters.