Command line tool

[svenhofman]

Hi Marvin,

First of all, what a great extension! I was wondering if you have any plans to create a command line tool that implements the functionality currently only provided through the UI. I was thinking of making a Raycast extension to be able to quickly change the application settings, and this would be possible with such a tool. It would also allow for easier automation.

Let me know what you think!

-- Sven

[mhaeuser]

I currently have no such plans, as I personally have no use-case for it, but it would not be that hard to do honestly. The daemon exposes an API that a CLI tool can easily connect to, the GUI doesn’t really have any meaningful logic itself. I would need to check whether the GUI has any internal state that could de-sync from external modification of the daemon settings and state, but I think this isn’t the case.

Maybe you are interested in PR’ing such a tool?

[svenhofman]

I might take a shot at it, I'm not familiar with Swift so it will take me some time to figure out

[philocalyst]

I would love to see this! Would be interested in experimenting with you in swift (I don't know it either), so let me know if you want any help @svenhofman

[svenhofman]

Hi @philocalyst

Thanks for the invitation :) I'm a bit busy at the moment so I won't have time. I also learned that Raycast provides a utility to run Swift code, hence a CLI tool might not be necessary to communicate with the daemon!

[mhaeuser]

I'll move this to a discussion, because it is out of the scope of the main app.