Pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs

Configuration Help & General Discussion
1

Is there a way to bring back the pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs using BTT HUD somehow?

2

@Andreas_Hegenberg , in the changelog there's:

  • Volume and brightness indicator: on macOS 27, the system indicator now appears when BetterTouchTool changes volume or brightness. On older versions, "Set Volume" has a new "Show system volume HUD" option.

Can you add "Show system volume HUD" for the "Volume Up" and "Volume Down" actions?

3

these will always show the system volume hud because they simulate a press of the real volume key

4

Got it, initially I thought you have implemented something similar to what volumeHUD does.

5

kind of, the script based volume changes now also show such an old style hud:

Increase by 10%

async function increaseVolume() {
    const currentVolume = await get_number_variable({
        variableName: "OutputVolume"
    });

    const newVolume = Math.min(1, currentVolume + 0.1);

    await set_number_variable({
        variableName: "OutputVolume",
        to: newVolume
    });

    return false;
}

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6

Andreas, not sure what do you mean?

now also show such an old style hud

Which version? I've tried with BTT: 6.955 on macOS: 26.6.2 25G83, but with this script nothing is shown, even the system notification/hud

7

ah I think I have only enabled this on macOS 27 because the system frameworks for this changed between macos versions and I didn't investigate the old ones :see_no_evil_monkey:

Possibly the explicit version works on macOS 26 as well:

async function increaseVolume() {
    const currentVolume = await get_number_variable({
        variableName: "OutputVolume"
    });

    const newVolume = Math.min(1, currentVolume + 0.1);

    BTTActions.setOutputVolumeShowSystemHUD(newVolume, true);  

    return false;
}

//edit: ah no, this method is currently not exported to javascript so it won't do anything

8

Going through the set system volume action should work though :sweat_smile:

async function someJavaScriptFunction() {
    const currentVolume = await get_number_variable({
        variableName: "OutputVolume"
    });

    const newVolume = Math.min(1, currentVolume + 0.1);

     const actionDefinition = {
    "BTTPredefinedActionType": 373,  
    "BTTGenericActionConfig": String(newVolume*100),    
    "BTTAdditionalActionData": {
      "BTTShowSystemVolumeHUD": true
    }
  };
  return await trigger_action({json: JSON.stringify(actionDefinition), wait_for_reply: false});

    return false;
}
9

Appreciate this Andreas. For completeness, here's the volume down script:

async function someJavaScriptFunction() {
    const currentVolume = await get_number_variable({
        variableName: "OutputVolume"
    });

    const newVolume = Math.max(0, currentVolume - 0.05);

    const actionDefinition = {
        "BTTPredefinedActionType": 373,
        "BTTGenericActionConfig": String(newVolume * 100),
        "BTTAdditionalActionData": {
            "BTTShowSystemVolumeHUD": true
        }
    };

    return await trigger_action({
        json: JSON.stringify(actionDefinition),
        wait_for_reply: false
    });
}