Keyboard controls not working

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Wow, OK—so this is why we do beta builds. :slight_smile:

When you press the spacebar or another key that isn’t working for you, do you hear the macOS system alert/beep sound, or does nothing happen at all in Capo?

Either way, I need to get some debug logs from you. Launch the Terminal app, copy/paste the following command, and press the return key to run it. When prompted, enter your login password[1]:

 sudo log stream --debug --predicate 'subsystem=="com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl"'

Then, return to Capo and press some of those keystrokes—spacebar, command-arrows, etc. Back in the Terminal app, you should ideally see messages that look like this[2]:

2025-03-31 10:08:00.235256-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: togglePlayback()
2025-03-31 10:08:00.340876-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] No commands for message: keyUp(space)
2025-03-31 10:08:01.471461-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToSongBoundary(beginning)
2025-03-31 10:08:01.542247-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] No commands for message: keyUp(command leftArrow)
2025-03-31 10:08:02.366250-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: togglePlayback()
2025-03-31 10:08:02.474421-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] No commands for message: keyUp(space)
2025-03-31 10:08:02.955027-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.200510-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.235381-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.267735-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.300570-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.334141-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.368339-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Dispatching: goToNext(entry: bar)
2025-03-31 10:08:03.383807-0400 0x41ade13  Debug       0x0                  11232  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] No commands for message: keyUp(rightArrow)

Please copy the messages and then paste them in here for me to take a look at.

If there are no messages:

If nothing appears in the Terminal while you press keys, try quitting and re-launching Capo while the log messages are still running. At the very least, you should see the following messages (or something like them) on launch:

2025-03-31 10:11:37.389590-0400 0x41d8470  Info        0x0                  14404  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:First-Time Initialization] First-time initialization already completed
2025-03-31 10:11:38.119404-0400 0x41d8357  Info        0x0                  14404  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CapoRemoteCommandDispatcher] Bindings successfully initialized
2025-03-31 10:11:38.778057-0400 0x41d8357  Debug       0x0                  14404  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CoreMIDIMessageProvider] Successfully created MIDI client
2025-03-31 10:11:38.782294-0400 0x41d8357  Debug       0x0                  14404  0    Capo: (CapoRemoteControl) [com.supermegaultragroovy.capo.CapoRemoteControl:CoreMIDIMessageProvider] Successfully created MIDI input port

Let me know if even these messages aren’t showing up for you. Thanks!

  1. The log tool requires administrator privileges to run, which is why sudo is used, and prompts you for your password. ↩︎

  2. The text is very wide, so you might have to scroll to see it all. ↩︎