Griffin PowerMate

[Niclas]

With the new support for Generic Devices in BTT 4 it is now possible to get the Griffin PowerMate working.

I wrote some simple instructions with the required code on my blog.

https://heavyconsulting.net/blog/2023/2023-02-02-touch-of-power

Hope this helps someone.

[buckbuck]

Oooh, when I get a moment, I am going to see if this helps with mapping the dial on the Logitech Craft. It looks cool.

[swy]

As a someone... yes, this TOTALLY helped me. Getting my Powermate back as a volume control is a long standing, low level wish come true. This rocks.

Next wish for is to get it to work as a push to talk, universal unmute for Zoom. I have Shift-Command-A universally mapped as a working keystroke, and paired to PowerMate button press. That press will send the keystroke once per volume setting. Said differently:
-First use, press button, see Zoom unmute
-Press again, Zoom will not unmute
-Turn dial any way that registers a volume change, NOW it will receive a button press, and send the unmute command.

[SLE]

Sounds like a job for the "cycle through" action

[swy]

Sounds like you're talking about an implementation like this? Cycling through custom areas - #2 by Andreas_Hegenberg
I have zero javascript authoring skills to bring that to reality, only functional search skills.

[SLE]

No, I was referring to this.

Activate Trigger
Execute Action1
Same Trigger activated
Execute Action 2

and so on

[swy]

I think I follow your intent, but it's not changing the behavior. It's still mandatory to alter the volume to between presses for a following press to be acknowledged.

[verstaerker]

thank you - super cool and useful!

[shahman]

Has anyone gotten this to work with the Bluetooth Powermate?
The only way to pair that is through their app which no longer work with MacOS.
Thoughts?

[cyberkev]

• Then click the "Parse Device Input/Output" button. This will open a new window.
• Give the PowerMate a little spin. If everything is ok so far, you should see reports coming in. If not, try closing the window and open it again. I found it can sometimes be a little flaky."

It does NOT WORK for me [MacOS 10.15.7 Catalina]

Everything is fine until I try to set the triggers ["Parse Device Input/Output" button"]
(No reports in response to Powermate spins)

I have tried many things (restarting, etc) with no luck.
Any help will be welcome

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Unfortunately I haven't tested the Generic Device Support on macOS 10.15. It's possible it doesn't work on that macOS version.

[cyberkev]

Thank you very much for the reply.
Could you please tell me in which (macOS) systems it has been proven to work?
Kind regards

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

I have only tested with macOS 13 and 14!

[cyberkev]

Thanks again.
I'll try on macOS 14