Mic and Camera Zoom Hotkeys

I do many, many Zoom meetings every week, and once I built something to help me find and get into the right meeting quickly, I turned my attention to the in-meeting experience.

Zoom is rarely the focused window for me. I’m typically taking notes, but I both mute and unmute the microphone and turn the video camera on and off pretty regularly. Doing either requires me to switch focus to the Zoom window first.

A nice friction reducer here is to bind a “global” hotkey - one that works in any app to a small bit of code that activates the right menu items in the Zoom app.

Hammerspoon makes the basics pretty easy:

hyper:bind({}, 'm', nil, function() 
    local app = hs.application.get("us.zoom.xos")
    app:selectMenuItem("Mute Audio")
end)

I ended up getting a little fancier as I wanted all the Zoom functions I use regularly under a single hotkey, including my favorite: a batch option which toggles video and audio together on and off.

Each set of actions is defined in JSON, so it is easy to customize and add more Zoom controls.

[
    {
        "text": "Toggle Both Camera and Mic 🤫🙈",
        "subText": "",
        "toggleMenu1": "Mute Audio;Stop Video",
        "alertText1": "Muted and Stopped Cam",
        "toggleMenu2": "Unmute Audio;Start Video",
        "alertText2": "Camera and Mic are Live 🤩",
    },
    {
        "text": "Toggle Mute",
        "subText": "",
        "toggleMenu1": "Mute Audio",
        "alertText1": "Mic is Muted 😶",
        "toggleMenu2": "Unmute Audio",
        "alertText2": "Mic Live 🎉",
        "imageFile": "/.hammerspoon/images/mic.jpg"
    }
]