moose-byte / zoom-light

workflow to turn off the light behind me when I take a zoom call

Zoom Light 💡

This workflow automatically turns off the light behind when I start a Zoom Meeting. It uses Apple HomeKit to control the light. It's also smart enough to only run if I'm home.

Requirements

You'll have to have an Apple Shortcut that turns your light on or off, or runs any action you want. Here is a link to my own

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ce026f1307774a5aa71e8a894ef7b12b

Install

This workflow relies on launchd to run in the background.

1. Copy zoom-light.plist into ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

2. Tell launchd that you always want the script to run

     launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/zoom-light.plist

3. That's it! If it's not running, you can do this

      launchctl start zoom-light.job

Thank You 🙏

I couldn't have done this without the resources, thank you!

• https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/449400/do-an-action-like-run-shell-command-when-zoom-call-starts-and-when-zoom-call
• https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/192654