keyboard maestro create folder with variables

#KEYBOARD MAESTRO CREATE FOLDER WITH VARIABLES MAC#

I’ll be honest, this post is more for me than it is for you. Currently, running the command directly inside Keyboard Maestro does not cause the system to prompt for camera permissions, so the command fails.

#KEYBOARD MAESTRO CREATE FOLDER WITH VARIABLES MAC#

I’m running this script by way of an Automator “Application” because, thanks to macOS Catalina, things that access the camera of my Mac need to throw a macOS system permissions dialogue box so I can grant them explicit access to the hardware. usr/local/bin/imagesnap -d 'FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)' -q -w 1 /Users/dansturm/Dropbox/Photos/iSight_Capture/$(date +'%F-%H-%M-%S').jpg Automator? Here’s the single-line shell script that takes the photo: The hardware (apparently) needs that to avoid occasionally taking an underexposed image. Especially because the command I’m using to take the photo includes a one second delay to let the camera “warm up”. I’m genuinely surprised just how fast it is. So far, no matter how quick my reaction time, each photo taken by ImageSnap has been captured before my eyes were able to dart up to the camera. But with isightcapture, I was occasionally able to notice the green light in my peripheral vision, look at the camera, and pose for the photo. Both apps, when taking a photo, activated the camera’s green “active” light (as they should). Second, it’s much faster than isightcapture. I don’t remember why, but in May of 2016, my script broke. I can see a whole lot in those crappy, automated webcam photos. (I really didn’t plan that career/life transition well at all.) Behind me in the photos are the dozens of moving boxes my now-wife and I couldn’t unpack until we found a new place to live. I see my temporary office setup in the family room of my dad’s house where I lived for a month after moving back to Phoenix from San Jose. The ones where we basically didn’t sleep for three days, shooting and editing around the clock. There are the backstage photos of those sales and marketing conferences I worked. I can see the unexpected enthusiasm on my face as I taught two semesters of post-production finishing and vfx at the film school at Scottsdale Community College taking over for a professor who had moved away. But I was (and still am) so grateful for everything I learned from that experience. I was absolutely exhausted driving back and forth between Phoenix and Los Angeles probably a dozen times over the course of a few months. I can see myself doing everything in my power to suppress a sea of self-doubt when I found myself working in the Sandwich Video office for a few weeks in 2013. I can see the frustration and immaturity on my face in 2012 - my last year at Intel - before I left to pursue…something I hadn’t worked out yet. In some cases, you can barely even see me. They’re dark, grainy, and usually framed badly. The photos themselves are terrible quality.

These incredibly unremarkable images gave me a consistent snapshot of my day-to-day life that, as the months and years passed, became an incredible record of one of the more interesting (to me) periods of my life. Which was incredibly stupid.īut, in setting up this little script, I inadvertently created a sort of photo diary for myself. I had some grand idea that this would help me locate my laptop if it were ever stolen giving me photographic clues to its location. I set up a bash script and launchd task that used a CLI tool I found called isightcapture to take a photo through my MacBook Pro’s iSight camera every 2 hours, and put them in a Dropbox folder. To spare you the headache of reading that meandering, ill-framed, eight-year-old blog post, here’s the gist of what I built back in 2012. Luckily, I remembered another place I might find a few more memories to peruse: my iSight Capture folder in my Dropbox archive. My craving for personal nostalgia was not fully satisfied. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of photos from the period of time I was scrolling through.

I was looking through some old photos on my iPhone the other day, reminiscing.

Keyboard maestro create folder with variables