Microphone mute hotkey on macOS.md

1. Open Automator.app
2. Create new Quick Action
3. Select Run AppleScript
4. Add this:

set inputVolume to input volume of (get volume settings)
if inputVolume = 0 then
	set inputVolume to 100
	display notification "Volume set to 100" with title "✅ Microphone is on"
else
	set inputVolume to 0
	display notification "Volume set to 0" with title "❌ Microphone is off"
end if
set volume input volume inputVolume

5. Save as mute-microphone
6. Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services -> General
7. Find the mute-microphone service and set the hotkey (e.g. control-cmd-option M)

Now we need to have Apple make this a default thing for MacOS, with an option to have the mic icon on the menu bar as well

I meant to follow up on this gist tbh, but in the end I ended up building a whole Hammerspoon script: https://github.com/chessmango/SimpleMicMute.spoon

I wanted a bit more out of it and speed was an issue for me, so fitting into a known-good framework for this type of thing felt more fitting. I've been using it since just before my last commit successfully, with a nice menubar indicator.

Now we need to have Apple make this a default thing for MacOS, with an option to have the mic icon on the menu bar as well

I meant to follow up on this gist tbh, but in the end I ended up building a whole Hammerspoon script: https://github.com/chessmango/SimpleMicMute.spoon

I wanted a bit more out of it and speed was an issue for me, so fitting into a known-good framework for this type of thing felt more fitting. I've been using it since just before my last commit successfully, with a nice menubar indicator.

This looks good, thanks for sharing, I definitely will try it out. The menubar indicator could also be really useful to me.

on getMicrophoneVolume()
input volume of (get volume settings)
end getMicrophoneVolume
on disableMicrophone()
set volume input volume 0
display notification "❌" with title "Microphone is off"
end disableMicrophone
on enableMicrophone()
set volume input volume 100
display notification "✅" with title "Microphone is on"
end enableMicrophone

if getMicrophoneVolume() is greater than 0 then
disableMicrophone()
else
enableMicrophone()
end if

This is a beautiful script. I had shortcuts run this apple script in some shortcuts and it's just fantastic for my macro keyboard Thanks @IonelLupu