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I see the usefulness in muting your microphone from a Hotkey, as it’s a way that should work universally across apps.

 

I’d be wary of calling it a way to take control of one’s privacy, though. Just like the Workflow can unmute the microphone programmatically, so can anyone else, which means muting it doesn’t offer any protection against those who are shady.

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1 hour ago, vitor said:

I see the usefulness in muting your microphone from a Hotkey, as it’s a way that should work universally across apps.

 

I’d be wary of calling it a way to take control of one’s privacy, though. Just like the Workflow can unmute the microphone programmatically, so can anyone else, which means muting it doesn’t offer any protection against those who are shady.

 

I Agree. I want to mean privacy and not protection because mute microphone keeps your privacy ok but not means protection by itself.
Just a way to avoid "audio leaking' when entering in a meeting call.

I didn't not mean that it protects anything further the privacy of audio.

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So i'm pretty new to Alfred and know very little about coding etc. My understanding is that I could just upload this workflow to alfred and it would work, but this and many others just don't do anything. What am I doing wrong?

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Welcome @Azita,

 

To properly help you, we’ll need a few more details. Specifically, your exact installed versions of:

  • The Workflow.
  • Alfred.
  • macOS.

In addition to:

  • The debugger output. Perform the failing action, click “Copy” on the top right and paste it here.
  • Details on what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen. A short video of the steps with the debugger open may help to find the problem faster.

Thank you. Accurate and thorough information is crucial for a proper diagnosis which allows us to help you better.

 

Also, for this specific case there is an alternative in the Alfred Gallery you may wish to try as well.

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Hi! Thank you for your quick reply! 

 

  • Workflow: v1.0 (I downloaded the file linked above and dragged it directly Alfred)
  • Alfred 5.5 [2257]
  • macOS 14.5

Here is the debugger log:  
 

[13:32:13.189] Logging Started...

[13:32:16.997] Mute|UnMute Mic[Hotkey] Processing complete

[13:32:17.006] Mute|UnMute Mic[Hotkey] Passing output '' to Run NSAppleScript

[13:32:17.025] Mute|UnMute Mic[Run NSAppleScript] Processing complete

[13:32:17.031] Mute|UnMute Mic[Run NSAppleScript] Passing output 'muted 🔇' to Post Notification

[13:32:28.549] Mute|UnMute Mic[Hotkey] Processing complete

[13:32:28.560] Mute|UnMute Mic[Hotkey] Passing output '' to Run NSAppleScript

[13:32:28.580] Mute|UnMute Mic[Run NSAppleScript] Processing complete

[13:32:28.586] Mute|UnMute Mic[Run NSAppleScript] Passing output 'muted 🔇' to Post Notification

[13:32:32.578] Logging Stopped.

 

^ I ran it (just hitting the hotkey, which i changed to cmd+m) twice while on a zoom call, and the microphone icon on zoom didn't change, and the notification didn't come through. However, I confirmed with my zoommates that my mic DID go off, but pressing the hotkey again did not turn the mic back on. 

I hope this helps, if a video could be of more assistance, I'd be happy to make one. Thank you in advance!

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Since it partially worked, I recommend first checking the workflow from @Acidham, linked above.

 

4 minutes ago, Azita said:

the microphone icon on zoom didn't change

 

That’s probably normal, because the used method to mute the microphone is to lower its input value to 0, which Zoom probably doesn’t detect.

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