Select sound output mac
Title
Select sound output mac
What do you expect to happen when you run the script/macro?
Hi, I'm trying to create a macro for selecting audio output for my mac, for some reason picking “sound” in System Settings with “Mouse Click Relative To UI Element” action doesn’t work for me, would love some help!
Are you seeing an error?
What happens when you run this script?
It goes up to opening System Settings but nothing happens after that
How were you running this script?
I clicked the "Run Script" or "Run Macro" button in SoundFlow
How important is this issue to you?
4
Details
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Source
//Macro converted to script
sf.app.launch({
path: "/System/Applications/System Settings.app",
});
sf.ui.app("com.apple.systempreferences").mainWindow.groups.first.splitGroups.first.groups.first.scrollAreas.first.children.whoseRole.is("AXOutline").whoseDescription.is("Sidebar").first.children.whoseRole.is("AXRow").allItems[11].children.whoseRole.is("AXCell").first.children.whoseRole.is("AXStaticText").whoseValue.is("Sound").first.mouseClickElement();
sf.ui.app("com.apple.systempreferences").mainWindow.groups.first.splitGroups.first.groups.allItems[1].groups.first.scrollAreas.first.groups.allItems[1].scrollAreas.first.children.whoseRole.is("AXOutline").first.children.whoseRole.is("AXRow").first.children.whoseRole.is("AXCell").first.groups.first.children.whoseRole.is("AXStaticText").whoseValue.is("MacBook Pro Speakers").first.mouseClickElement();
Links
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Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2024-10-29 16:04:12.639ZHi @Ofer_Tiberin,
At the end of this post, I go over a few ways to set the sound output on a Mac. Let me know if those posts help you out!
You can get device IDs for your audio devices with this short script:
log(sf.audio.getAudioDevices().devices)The device IDs will show up in the log. You can access the full log here:
The output will look something like this:
[ { "DeviceId": 126, "DeviceName": "Universal Audio Thunderbolt", "IsActiveInput": false, "IsActiveOutput": false } ]Then, you can set an audio device by the device ID with another short script like this:
sf.audio.selectAudioDevice({deviceId:126})
Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2024-10-29 16:16:10.717ZBetter yet, you could select the sound output by name like this:
let outputName = 'Universal Audio Thunderbolt' // Get the audio device ID for the named device let namedAudioDeviceID = sf.audio.getAudioDevices().devices.filter(x => x.deviceName == outputName)[0].deviceId // Set output sf.audio.selectAudioDevice({deviceId:namedAudioDeviceID})