Adding Support for headphone media keys?

[sejmann]

I've noticed that MediaKeyTap seems to respond only to actual keyboard media keys, and not the buttons on headsets plugged into the audio port, or bluetooth headsets.

I've used BeardedSpice, and noticed that it supports these buttons, so I looked under the hood. It seems, while it uses SPMediaKeyTap, it also uses DDHidLib to somehow capture these additional "AppleMikey" button presses.

Is that something you'd consider adding as additional triggers for play/pause, forward/next, back/previous?

[butaji]

Hi @nhurden, any ideas on this? At least theoretical solution, which I can try to implement

[nhurden]

@butaji Here are some other implementations for reference:
https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice/blob/c2fa83a2275db8c3a5308c6e29ef1255c9f66efd/BeardedSpiceControllers/BSCService.m#L309

https://github.com/7hil/mac_ear_control/blob/master/mac_ear_control/AppDelegate.m#L145

[ndoo]

+1 this would allow for listening to events from Logitech Unifying mice with customizable buttons