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abdyfranco / macos-ifttt-control

Cloud-Based IFTTT Task Automation Service for macOS.
http://abdyfran.co/projects/macos-ifttt
MIT License
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Bug in setting the Mac Hash #17

Open Riccardom94 opened 4 years ago

Riccardom94 commented 4 years ago

I Found your program in a youtube tutorial and A LOT of other users had the exact same problem, I think that is closely related if not the same issue of #14 . I have installed it correctly, but when the program opens up there's no Mac Hash below in the dedicated field. I also deleted the program and every file related to it by terminal, reinstalled it but the problem still persists. I just wanted to know if there are some updates on the status of the debugging. Screen Shot 2020-05-12 at 09 50 26

PushyPants commented 4 years ago

For anyone having the same issue, here are the steps I took to solve the problem. I deleted the app and associated files. If you're having trouble with the 'uninstall' process (simply throwing the app in the trash won't work), do a quick google search for 'completely remove mac apps and all files'. Or you could go the easy route and use an app like CleanMyMac.

Then I downloaded a previous version (1.1.3). Followed the setup instructions again. Note that the file with the hash is placed on the desktop. If you have trouble uploading that file to DB, then right click or cmd+click on the file and open it with TextEdit and type literally anything in the first line, save and upload to Drop Box. DropBox doesn't like empty files so we are just making sure the file isn't empty. This won't hurt anything as it is the file that will be appended by the IFTTT action anyway.

When the file is uploaded to Drop Box get the share link for that file not the folder but the file itself (because this is the file that IFTTT will be editing/appending). Paste that link in the only available field in the MacOSIFTTT UI and press next.

That should get you going, the UI will then prompt you to update. You can do the update without breaking anything. You'll then get the rest of the UI that you were not seeing before.

Riccardom94 commented 4 years ago

@PushyPants I tried doing what you wrote asap, unfortunately, the commands still don't work. This time mi hashcode is visible from the app though. The strange thing is that when the program detects a possible update, it tells me that it will be updated to version "0.0.0". And then it closes after a second. reopening it and looking for info, it still tells me that this is version 1.1.3, but this time no pop-up windows for an update.

techinfant commented 4 years ago

@Riccardom94: Not clear if you have tried this, but I had the same issue as you, and I was able to get things to work by running the daemon, located at /Applications/macOSIFTTTControl.app/Contents/Resources/app/cli/daemon/macosiftttcontrol, in a terminal window. This was mentioned @javonleryan in a response to #14