Hey Rose - thanks for the shoutout regarding the HomeControl app on this episode. I’m famous! Also thanks to Jerry, who first posted about the app in another thread on the forums.
Streamdeck showing my ZOOM mute/unmute status, regardless of active app:
There are a number of meetings where I am listening along in a zoom, but the zoom window itself is covered as I’m actually multitasking in another program* to stay productive. That usually means I can’t see the Mute icon in the bottom left corner of the Zoom meeting. Most zoom commands on the streamdeck are only helpful if the Zoom app is active, not another app (like Outlook).
Last year, I created a keyboard maestro macro that is enabled if zoom is running, whether it is the active application or not. It uses AppleScript to check to see if I am muted on Zoom every 30 seconds. (It checks the Meeting Menu for the existence of the “Unmute Audio” option. If that exists, I know I am muted).
It updates the top left button on my streamdeck with a MUTED icon. if not, it replaces it with an UNMUTED icon.
This way, I can always check my mute status, just by looking down at my Streamdeck, regardless of what I’m really doing during the Zoom meeting.
The button, if pressed, will activate zoom and toggle mute/unmute. Very helpful for “staying productive”, haha! If anyone interested, here’s the link to the KM Macro:
*If someone I work with reads this, I disavow any knowledge of this post