PowerMates can run AppleScripts

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In case you happen to have a Griffin Technologies PowerMate, which I consider to be the all-time most clever and elegantly-designed external device for Macs (and which they have been selling for a very many years), note that it can run AppleScripts. And therefore KM Macros, since those are easy to call from AppleScript, e.g.:

tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to do script "Macro Name"

(See Scripting Keyboard Maestro for further details.)

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Another useful device is the ShuttlePro V2. It can’t run AS, but it does support its own macros, and can certainly trigger KM macros. I use it constantly, in combination with KM, when I edit videos. I would be lost without it.