

Unlock the preference pane to make changes, then select the checkbox next to “Hammerspoon” to allow Hammerspoon to inspect the state of Zoom. Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, To do this, open System Preferences, and go to If this doesn’t work, it probably means that you need to give Hammerspoon permission to control your computer. If the command returned false like in the image above, then quit and reopen Zoom, start a meeting, and re-run the command. If Zoom is already open, and in a meeting, this command should return true otherwise, it’ll return false
#Hammerspoon capture event install
If you use Homebrew, you should be able to install Hammerspoon via brew: I recommend these posts if you want to learn more about Hammerspoon after you read this blog post.

#Hammerspoon capture event how to
I learned how to use Hammerspoon via the excellent blogs posts “ Give your computer superpowers with a Hypekey and Hammerspoon” and “ Hammerspoon: A Better, Better Hyper Key”. You can use Hammerspoon to configure hotkeys, act as a window manager, set timers, track your time, automate tasks, create desktop widget and more. The malleable nature of Hammerspoon gives it a lot of power, but it also makes it hard to describe. Hammerspoon does this by exposing a large variety of macOS functionality via a clean Lua interface. I think of it as a programmer’s multi-tool for modifying the behavior and extending the capabilities of macOS. If you aren’t familiar with Hammerspoon, it can be a bit hard to describe. Be ready to use of your terminal and favorite text editor to get Hammerspoon configured. Note: Unlike most software for macOS, Hammerspoon requires a bit of effort to get working.

The color of the light will show your mute status, red will indicate that you’re muted, and green if you are not muted.īecause Zoom doesn’t provide a native interface for determining mute status, I will instead use a tool called Hammerspoon to accomplish this. In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up a light that will turn on when you’re in a Zoom call.
