Enabling macros only on a specific machine

[iay]

Hi all. Long time KBM user, first time poster.

I recently got much deeper into using KBM, and some of the macros I have written recently are very specific to a particular machine, to the extent that I absolutely do not want them executing on a different one. Some of them have cron-style triggers, so they can be triggered even if I don't do anything explicit.

The obvious approach to that was to put the macros in a group for that machine, and disable the group on other machines. That works fine unless I set up another machine: I have to remember to disable that group on the new Mac, and I have a terrible memory. This seems like a less than perfect approach.

I was wondering whether there was a way to set up a group so that instead of "Enabled/disabled everywhere" and "Disabled/not disabled on this Mac" I could get the opposite effect: "disabled everywhere but enabled on this Mac". I've searched around a bit and haven't seen anything that would do this, short of just putting in an "If/Then/Else" action abandoning the macro if the %MacName% token didn't match.

Thoughts?

MacOS 10.14.6, KBM 9.0.2 for reference.

[janov]

this has been discussed a lot, see:

How to make "disabled on this Mac" default to ON for a particular group?

I sync my macros, but there is one group that I only want to run on my home Mac. It runs things using the Time of Day trigger, and performs tasks on remote machines — so having multiple Macs trying to do the tasks is going to cause chaos. Currently, I must be sure to go into the group on each new Mac I sync to, and tick "disabled on this Mac". I would really like to be able to set this particular group to default to disabled on all Macs, and then only enable it on the specific one that I want …

Macro Syncing Issue on MacOS Sierra

I’m sorry. That was what I meant. When I disable a macro group on one machine, it gets also disabled on the other. That is, “Disabled on this Mac” feature doesn’t work. Disabling or enabling one macro group via a “Disabled on this Mac” tick box affects all the other machines across the network. That’s what I meant by “they behave as one.”

Syncing between computers BUT enabling different Macros on each

I have a very similar arrangement. I have chosen to bracket my Macros using the Mac Name or for a specific screen size, but you could also put the macro for each Mac into separate Macro Groups, so that the Group, and its macros, are only active for specific Mac. Something like this: Use Machine Name [image] If you want to set for more than two Macs, then use a Switch or Case action. Use Macro Groups On the Desktop Mac, create/set this Group, and move all Macros for the MBP into this Group…

solution: none yet but the last post above does give you options.

[iay]

Thanks, @janov. I'm a bit embarrassed that I couldn't find any of those myself, particularly the one that is just a couple of days old.

For now, I'll just guard the critical macros with %MacName% or %MacUUID%.