Flic for Mac?

anton

said in Flic for Mac?:

press scan if you want to add a new Flic

Hi, I just downloaded and installed the app. I have a flic-icon in my menubar but when I scan for my Flic I get the error message that no Flic was found in the proximity. Even when pressing the Flic button really close to my laptop, it doesn't find it. The button works well with the iPhone app. How do I move forward?

Thanks
Frank

I have noticed once before, on one mac, that the Bluetooth stack in the computer, for some reason, stopped delivering advertisement packets to the application layer. This may be what has happened to you as well. I have no idea why it happened, but when it happened to me I actually had to restart the computer for it to be solved. If you can try doing that then it would be great. If you are still having issues after that, then I will have to take a closer look.

frank

said in Flic for Mac?:

press scan if you want to add a new Flic

Hi, I just downloaded and installed the app. I have a flic-icon in my menubar but when I scan for my Flic I get the error message that no Flic was found in the proximity. Even when pressing the Flic button really close to my laptop, it doesn't find it. The button works well with the iPhone app. How do I move forward?

Thanks
Frank

anton

@sandra.kaercher said in Flic for Mac?:

I'm using the lockscreen.applescript that came with the file but I'm getting a "File not executable. File path is not executable. /User/MYNAME/Documents/lockscreen.applescript" error. The sleep.sh script seems to work fine.

Anyone experienced this?

Hello, I don't exactly know which script you are referring to since the repository does not contain a script named 'lockscreen.applescript'. The error , however, suggests that you are trying to execute a file that you do not have permission to execute. You can look up the file permissions by going to the correct path in the terminal and then run ls -l. Here is an article that explains file permissions in more details if you are curious. But in short, you should see at lest one 'x' in the file permission list for that file. If not, then simply run chmod +x your_script_file to add the execute permission.

Did any of this help?

sandra.kaercher

I'm using the lockscreen.applescript that came with the file but I'm getting a "File not executable. File path is not executable. /User/MYNAME/Documents/lockscreen.applescript" error. The sleep.sh script seems to work fine.

Anyone experienced this?

pknickle

Thank you for this! I'm using my Flic as a doorbell for my recording studio (the Hue lights blink when it is pressed) and while using my phone worked, I would sometimes wander out of range with it. Having the Flic on my desktop computer allows the whole system to be much more reliable!

marco.roth

@anton LOL, I didn't see that there is a Hue script. I am using a self written ruby script to control my Hue's. I solved the "toggle"-Feature script-based with a status check on the Hue bridge.

anton

@marco.roth said in Flic for Mac?:

This is awesome

I controll Hue's with my flic. The only thing, which would be nice if you can "toggle" for example the click event.

The first click will turn on the lights and the second click will turn them off.
So that every 2nd click an other script will be executed. So it would work like a normal light switch

Thanks!

Are you using the Philips Hue script that is in the repository? The reason why I am asking is since it should toggle between on/off. Although it would be a nice feature to have the toggle ability directly in the app. Although when we release our official Flic app for Mac it will have native Philips hue support of course.

/A

marco.roth

This is awesome

I controll Hue's with my flic. The only thing, which would be nice if you can "toggle" for example the click event.

The first click will turn on the lights and the second click will turn them off.
So that every 2nd click an other script will be executed. So it would work like a normal light switch

dominik

works great - 10.11.4 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

anton

@krishnavamsi said in Flic for Mac?:

Today installed the same on MAC and integrated lifx bulb through flic button.

Cool! I think other people might want to know how you did the LIFX integration

anton

@jonmichaels said in Flic for Mac?:

@anton I'm not sure how you're judging interest in the the Mac app, but I'd just like to add my name to the list of people saying "This is great!" Also, I would love to be able to add more than one button. What's the best way to find out when there's been an update to the app?

Thanks, I appreciate the comment Well I think by now we are very convinced that we will move ahead and create a complete app for mac. We have many great ideas, such as adding the option for it to support our fliclib client/server TCP protocol (as used in our Linux SDK). That way we could easily send and receive events between different devices on the network, but also between different apps on the computer, which I think would be cool. Also, porting over much of the cloud/LAN actions from our mobile apps is a no-brainer as well.

The only thing that we are not sure about at this moment is if we should do a quick fix to the current mac app to add multiple button support before we move over and start working on the big update.

Regarding updates to the app, there are currently no good way to to know for sure when there's been an update to the app. Minor updates will be pushed to GitHub without notice, but with larger updates we will most certainly post here on the forum as well, perhaps even send an email update about it. In the future we will of course have a version check in the app so that it can send a notification when there is an update available.

krishnavamsi

Today installed the same on MAC and integrated lifx bulb through flic button.

jonmichaels

@anton I'm not sure how you're judging interest in the the Mac app, but I'd just like to add my name to the list of people saying "This is great!" Also, I would love to be able to add more than one button. What's the best way to find out when there's been an update to the app?

anton

@alundqu said in Flic for Mac?:

Is it possible to connect several Flic buttons to one Mac?

Currently not, but we will add that in a later version as soon as possible.

alundqu

Is it possible to connect several Flic buttons to one Mac?

anton

@flic146 said in Flic for Mac?:

Works great for me, even committed code to github, which sends the mac to sleep.

Have you thought about open-sourcing the tool, and not just the scripts?

Yes I have thought about that, but we have not made any decisions yet. We will think about it.

hoechst

Works great for me, even committed code to github, which sends the mac to sleep.

Have you thought about open-sourcing the tool, and not just the scripts?

jed.firestone

This is FANTASTIC!!!!

brushmedia

genius!
had it all installed and running some iTunes scripts in minutes. thanks guys!

anton

@cwasko said in Flic for Mac?:

What is the "Button Down / Up" thing?

So, the original reason I bought Flic was the automate my time tracking for work. I switch tasks frequently at work and wanted a way to track time with a physical device. I could never quite get things the way I wanted using Flic > IFTTT > Google > Excel > Pivot Table > ERP System. But, now with this and 65 line of AppleScript I now have cut out IFTTT and Goole and have far superior integration. Thanks! I can't wait to see where this goes.

Thanks! This is a bit of a pet project of mine so I really appreciate the positive feedback Hopefully we can make something nice out of this!

As to your question. The "Button Down / Up" are actually the raw events that the Flic produces when you push the button. Down is sent when you as soon as you press down on the button and up as soon as you release it. This not only gives better response time, but it also means that you are able to detect "custom" press events if you like, morse code perhaps

The Click/DoubleClick/Hold events are generated from the down/up events. You will notice that the click event takes longer time to arrive than buttonDown and that is since the program needs to wait a little while to see if a second click arrives. This is to distinguish between click and doubleClick.