# Keyboard controls not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback\ **Tags:** 4\_4\_beta\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://community.capoapp.com/t/keyboard-controls-not-working/307 "2025-03-31T10:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![liscio](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/community.capoapp.com/liscio/32/3_2.png) [@liscio](https://community.capoapp.com/u/liscio)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.capoapp.com/t/keyboard-controls-not-working/307/2 "2025-03-31T14:23:03Z")
Wow, OK—so this is why we do beta builds. 🙂 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\[1\]: ```bash 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\[2\]: ```auto 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: ```auto 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.capoapp.com/t/keyboard-controls-not-working/307)._