My TouchBar. My rules

The TouchBar Customization App for your MacBook Pro

My idea is to create a platform for creating plugins to customize the TouchBar. I very much like BTT and having a full custom TouchBar (my BTT preset), and I wanted to create it. It's my first Swift project for MacOS :)

Share your presets here

Installation

Download lastest release from github
Or via Homebrew brew cask install mtmr

Troubleshooting

Problems:

"After the last update my mtmr is not working anymore!"
"Buttons sometimes do not trigger action"
"ESC don't work"
"Gestures don't work"

Re-tick or check a tick for access 🍏→ System Preferences → Security and Privacy → tab Privacy → Accessibility → MTMR

Built-in button types:

Buttons

escape
exitTouchbar
brightnessUp
brightnessDown
illuminationUp (keyboard illumination)
illuminationDown (keyboard illumination)
volumeDown
volumeUp
mute

Native Plugins

battery
currency
weather
inputsource
music (tap for pause, longTap for next)
dock (half-long click to open app, full-long click to kill app)
nightShift
dnd (Don't disturb)
pomodoro
network

Media Keys

previous
play
next

AppleScript plugins

sleep
displaySleep

Gestures on central part:

two finger slide: change you Volume
three finger slide: change you Brightness

Built-in slider types:

brightness
volume

You can also make custom buttons using these types

staticButton

 "type": "staticButton",
 "title": "esc",

appleScriptTitledButton

    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "refreshInterval": 60, //optional
    "source": {
      "filePath": "/Users/toxblh/Library/Application Support/MTMR/iTunes.nowPlaying.scpt",
      // or
      "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell",
      // or
      "base64": "StringInbase64"
    },

timeButton

  "type": "timeButton",
  "formatTemplate": "HH:mm" //optional

Groups

{
"type": "group",
"align": "center",
"bordered": true,
"title": "stats",
"items": [
    { "type": "play" }, { "type": "mute" }, ...]
}

To close a group, use the button:

{
"type": "close",
"width": 64
},

Native plugins

`timeButton`

Attention! Works not all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations

{
  "type": "timeButton",
  "formatTemplate": "dd HH:mm",
  "timeZone": "UTC"
}

`weather`

Provider: https://openweathermap.org Need allowance location service

  "type": "weather",
  "refreshInterval": 600, // in seconds
  "units": "metric", // or imperial
  "icon_type": "text" // or images
  "api_key": "" // you can get the key on openweather

`currency`

Provider: https://coinbase.com

  "type": "currency",
  "refreshInterval": 600, // in seconds
  "align": "right",
  "from": "BTC",
  "to": "USD",
  "full": true // £‣1.29$

`music`

{
  "type": "music",
  "align": "center",
  "width": 80,
  "bordered": false,
  "refreshInterval": 2, // in seconds
},

`pomodoro`

Pomodoro plugin. One click to start the work timer, longclick to start the rest timer. Click in progress for reset.

{
  "type": "pomodoro",
  "workTime": 1200, // set time work in seconds. Default 1500 (25 min)
  "restTime": 600, // set time rest in seconds. Default 300 (5 min)
},

`network`

Network plugin. The plugin to show usage a network

{
  "type": "network",
},

Actions:

hidKey

https://github.com/aosm/IOHIDFamily/blob/master/IOHIDSystem/IOKit/hidsystem/ev_keymap.h use only numbers

 "action": "hidKey",
 "keycode": 53,

keyPress

 "action": "keyPress",
 "keycode": 1,

appleScript

 "action": "appleScript",
 "actionAppleScript": {
     "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell"
    // "filePath" or "base64" will work as well
 },

shellScript

 "action": "shellScript",
 "executablePath": "/usr/bin/pmset",
 "shellArguments": ["sleepnow"], // optional

openUrl

 "action": "openUrl",
 "url": "https://google.com",

LongActions

If you want to longPress for some operations, it is similar to the configuration for Actions but with additional parameters, for example:

 "longAction": "hidKey",
 "longKeycode": 53,

longAction
longKeycode
longActionAppleScript
longExecutablePath
longShellArguments
longUrl

Additional parameters:

width restrict how much room a particular button will take

  "width": 34

align can stick the item to the side. default is center

  "align": "left" // "left", "right" or "center"

bordered you can do button without border

  "bordered": "false" // "true" or "false"

Example configuration:

[
  { "type": "escape", "width": 110 },
  { "type": "exitTouchbar", "align": "left" },
  {
    "type": "brightnessUp",
    "align": "left",
    "width": 36
  },
  {
    "type": "staticButton",
    "align": "left",
    "title": "🔆",
    "action": "keyPress",
    "keycode": 113,
    "width": 36
  },

  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "source": {
      "filePath": "/Users/toxblh/Library/Application Support/MTMR/iTunes.nowPlaying.scpt"
    },
    "refreshInterval": 1
  },
 {
    "type": "staticButton",
    "align": "left",
    "image": { "base64" : "%base64Finder%"},
    "action": "appleScript",
    "actionAppleScript": {
        "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell"
    },
    "width": 36
  },
  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "source": {
      "inline": "if application \"Safari\" is running then\r\ttell application \"Safari\"\r\t\trepeat with t in tabs of windows\r\t\t\ttell t\r\t\t\t\tif URL starts with \"https:\/\/music.yandex.ru\" and name does not end with \"на Яндекс.Музыке\" then\r\t\t\t\t\treturn name of t as text\r\t\t\t\tend if\r\t\t\tend tell\r\t\tend repeat\r\tend tell\rend if\rreturn \"\""
    },
    "refreshInterval": 1
  },
  { "type": "previous", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "play", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "next", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "sleep", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "displaySleep", "align": "right" },
  { "type": "weather", "refreshInterval": 1800, "width": 70, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "volumeDown", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "volumeUp", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "battery", "refreshInterval": 60 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "appleScriptTitledButton", "refreshInterval": 1800, "source": { "filePath": "/Users/redetection/Library/Application Support/MTMR/Weather.scpt"} , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "timeButton", "formatTemplate": "HH:mm", "width": 64, "align": "right" }
]