https://github.com/basnijholt/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar

Displaying Home Assistant sensors in the Macbook Pro's touch bar using BTT 🤖💻
https://github.com/basnijholt/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar

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Displaying Home Assistant sensors in the Macbook Pro's touch bar using BTT 🤖💻

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/basnijholt/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar
• Owner: basnijholt
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-06-06T18:01:48.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-06T14:12:37.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-02T01:50:30.411Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bettertouchtool, bettertouchtool-widget, home-assistant, macbook-pro, touchbar
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 829 KB
• Stars: 93
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar

![](example.png)

Displaying Home Assistant sensors in the Macbook Pro's touch bar using BTT.

*See [this Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/gyd5wd/finally_a_good_use_for_the_touch_bar_on_my/) thread and [this topic on the Home-Assistant forum](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/macbook-pros-touch-bar-is-finally-useful-displaying-sensors-and-controlling-devices/202820?u=basnijholt).*

## Requirements

* Macbook Pro with touch bar (obviously 😅)

* install [BetterTouchTool](https://folivora.ai/downloads)

* clone/[download](https://github.com/basnijholt/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar/archive/master.zip) this repository

* rename [widgets/secret-example.py](widgets/secret-example.py) to `widgets/secret.py` and fill in a token and URL

## Install a button widget

1. open BetterTouchTool

2. select Touch Bar (⌘1)

3. click on (+) sign

4. at "Select Trigger" → "Touch Bar Widgets" → "Shell Script / Task Widget"

5. at "Launch Path" leave `/bin/bash` and at "Parameters" leave `-c`

6. at "Script" add `FULL_PYTHON_PATH PATH_TO_WIDGET OPTIONAL_ARGUMENTS`, for the full Python path, use `which python`, e.g., `/usr/local/bin/python3 ~/Downloads/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar/widgets/switch.py --entity_id light.living_room_lights --icon fa-lightbulb-o.png`

If the widget has an action associated with it, continue

7. at "Assigned Action(s)" click on "Click here & select action ►" → "Controlling Other Applications" → "Execute Shell Script / Task"

8. repeat step 5. and 6.

6. pass the right argument (e.g., add `--toggle`) to the script

## Install a slider widget

![](example-sliders.png)

See the instructions in

- [`widgets/light-slider.py`](widgets/light-slider.py)

- [`widgets/volume-slider.py`](widgets/volume-slider.py)

and use the BTT interface to choose an icon.

## Examples

To add a light buttons like ![](example-light-toggle.png) use the [`widgets/switch.py`](widgets/switch.py) script like (trigger script)

```bash

~/miniconda3/bin/python ~/Downloads/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar/widgets/switch.py --entity_id light.living_room_lights --text "🛋️💡"

```

and (action script)

```bash

~/miniconda3/bin/python ~/Downloads/home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar/widgets/switch.py --entity_id light.bedroom_lights --text "🛌💡" --toggle

```

![](example-real-life.jpg)

![](BetterTouchTool.jpg)