[CodeIsTheEnd]

I haven't used Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/), the app the author built, but it looks fantastic! Clearly great effort has been put into it!

I really appreciate this class of application that exposes more hardware functionality to the end user. Flux (which may or may not be a direct competitor) is another great example, as is Halide, the pro camera app for iPhones. They're certainly not flashy, but they can be great quality-of-life improvements.

And they're difficult to write! They require using APIs that are often woefully under-documented, and terribly difficult to debug. I wanted to write an app that would slowly lower your device's volume over time (so you could raise the volume for a song that you like, but then not accidentally spend the next 30 minutes with the volume super loud), and even doing simple things like listing audio devices and getting their names was endlessly frustrating.

[alin23]

Thanks! Your idea sounds awesome!

I had a great experience using SimplyCoreAudio for that task, I assume you probably already know about it: https://github.com/rnine/SimplyCoreAudio

[dividedbyzero]

You probably could script that in Hammerspoon. I have a small script that resets the balance to center every few seconds (it sometimes wanders off-center for some weird readon), setting the volume should be possible too.

[Synaesthesia]

It's a great app, giving you iMac like control over your screen brightness. Love it.