Like “Vacationing” or “Working remotely”.This project is looking for a new maintainer. The same happens to the status you might have set manually in Slack before, When you leave the meeting, your Slack status is cleared – regardless of whether there was still an ongoing appointment in your Outlook calendar. However, when you join a Zoom meeting, your Slack status is updated to reflect that. That’s removed once the meeting (in the calendar) ends. I.e., it shows a calendar icon in your Slack status. Usually, this add-on updates your status when you have meetings in your Outlook calendar,
#Brew hammerspoon update#
However, keep in mind, that updating the Slack status via any kind of automation might interfere with other plugins that update your status, e.g., Slack for Outlook:
Nice, we saw two different approaches to updating the Slack status while being on a Zoom call. Read more in Stefan Natter’s article “How to automatically update your Slack status when you join a Zoom meeting” on DEV.TO or check out his repository on GitHub. It uses also an app at Zoom’s end to subscribe to events, and then use a Node.js application Webhook-based AlternativeĪlternatively, you can use an alternative solution that might work on other systems than MacOS: So that it might take a few seconds to update the status in Slack. Nevertheless, note that the status might not get updated immediately when you join a Zoom meeting.īy default, the script to detect Zoom meetings checks that every 20 seconds Your Slack status will be set accordingly. If also the Hammerspoon configuration is loaded successfully, If everything works, your status should show a checkmark now. Hammerspoon can easily be installed via Homebrew:
#Brew hammerspoon code#
You can write Lua code to interact with all kinds of APIs of the operating system, e.g., for applications, windows, mouse pointers, filesystem objects, audio devices, batteries, screens, low-level keyboard/mouse events, clipboards, and more. Its power comes from extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality to the user. It is a tool for powerful automation which is basically based on a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. Hammerspoon is here to help with that, at least on MacOS. If just there was a way to update your Slack status when you are in a Zoom meeting…Īutomation to the rescue! Automation via Hammerspoon They do not see you are not available for a quick call. Might not be able to respond to their messages in a timely manner – and even worse:
However, people in Slack will not see when you are in a meeting/call (like they do for Slack calls), and, therefore, It has good quality in calls, and a lot of great features for online conferencing. When in a call, you can either share your screen or use your webcam. So it was no surprise he was not able to join our team calls from home anymore.īesides that, Slack has a lack of features as well, e.g., Unfortunately, calls in Slack recently really became a pain, mostly because poor quality, and high resource and bandwidth consumption.Ī colleague of mine recently noticed that every participant in a meeting took another 1 MBit. Whenever you are on a (Slack) call, a special icon is displayed to indicate exactly that. Probably the best thing about that was introduced a little later, as far as I remember: You can set also set your status to whatever you like, including some icon or emoticon shown right next to your name. In addition to just indicating your presence (active/online or away/offline), Quite a while ago, they introduced a pretty cool feature already known from instant messaging: Slack is probably the best tool for instant messaging. This year, online communication definitely is on a rise,Īnd there is a wide variety of tools for that.
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