Shell Script – Do Not Disturb / If Then Action Works Irregularly

[appleianer]

Hello KM Users,

i have found a shell script here in the forum, which tells me if the Do not Disturb mode is activated or not.

Toggling 'Do not disturb' (OS X 10.10 Notifications)

[image] That script is just: defaults -currentHost read com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb I'm having some issues with that simulated keystroke recently though (10.14.6)... If I press the shortcut myself, it works. But from KM it's not working. I've tried toggling the shortcut on/off in system prefs, and tried restarting KM. It just gives me the normal error sound when I try it (including just trying that one action). [Screen Shot 2020-07-10 at 4.08.54 PM]

Unfortunately this did not work for me with the DNDStatus variable and also not with "contains 0". So I included it in an if Then action:

08)DND <EC1B 200722T010408>.kmmacros (23,8 KB)

When I start the macro, it detects that DND is not active. But if I start the macro again nothing happens.
Only when I start the macro again, DND is deactivated.

Can anyone help me with this?

[jon123]

Hey @appleianer I think the problem is you are using "matches" instead of "contains". Normally "matches" is used for regex matching, but it would also work fine with 0 or 1 like you have been using it - IF that variable ONLY contains 0 or 1. If you check my original post you'll see it's set up to use "contains" because the result of the original command was a string like " doNotDisturb = 0;"

But, before you change it, you can actually change the command to the one below, then "matches" should work just as well. Or you can change it to "is".

I just updated the command to remove the need for grep, not sure if it will help you though. The command is just:

defaults -currentHost read com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb

Example usage:

I'm still on 10.14.6 though, so I'm not sure if this works on 10.15+, but it should be the same.

My Enable/Disable Macros are here.. Note that you need to change the Simulate Keystroke hotkey to match the key you've set in System Prefs.
DND.kmmacros (5.6 KB)

[appleianer]

@jon123

Hey @appleianer I think the problem is you are using "matches" instead of "contains". Normally "matches" is used for regex matching, but it

Thanks @jon123 for your answer and the modified macro.

I have installed your macro and unfortunately still had the error that the "then - action" could only be started when activating it for the second time.
The error was not in your macro but in the Focus app. I was able to fix this in the meantime, so that your macro, with my additions, now runs perfectly.

I use macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Thanks for your help

[jon123]

Just updated to Catalina (fresh install though)... I'm actually having an issue with the hotkey on Catalina now. I've set the hotkey in System Prefs, but when I try to run the macro to execute the keystroke it doesn't work (error sound plays). Typing the shortcut myself works fine.

[appleianer]

@jon123

Typing the shortcut myself works fine.

Hi @jon123, have you enabled all permissions for Keyboard Maestro in the security settings?

[jon123]

Yep. Just double checked, KM and KM Engine are both enabled for Accessibility.
KM enabled for "Full Disk Access".
Automation shows a few apps under KM, all enabled.
Tried turning them both off/back on in Accessibility, no still not working though.

Also my shortcut from Keyboard settings:

[appleianer]

@jon123

enabled for Accessibility.
KM enabled for "Full Disk Access".

Did you include these programs with your new installation?

Please add KM also for input monitoring:

[jon123]

Thanks! I added those and also restarted, but it's still not working. When I manually run keystroke command via KM Editor I get the error sound:

[appleianer]

@jon123

KM Editor I get the error sound:

Hi @jon123, this is always a sign that the keystroke is already in use, Have you tried another one?

[jon123]

I tend to agree, but if I press the shortcut with the keyboard it works fine - DND mode is enabled/disabled when I press it. Only get the alert sound when KM issues the keystroke.

I just tried changing the shortcut in system prefs, and making the same change in KM, still getting the error sound when trying to run it.

[jon123]

Couldn't get this resolved, so I switched to using this project: https://github.com/sindresorhus/do-not-disturb-cli which is working well.

Just had to set the KM ENV_PATH variable to "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" and now I can just run this to enable/disable DND: