Audio Record Hotkey

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

First of all, I LOVE Obsidian. So much so I’d like to make it slightly better. :grin:

So, I create audio memos on a daily basis. As someone who has a limited Hotkey budget (lots of plugins and limited memory), it would be a nice hotkey saver to use the same hotkey to start and stop (toggle) the recording.

And unfortunately this doesn’t work:

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:cry:

Proposed solution

My proposed solution is to create a new hotkey option to Toggle the Audio Record with a single hotkey. :joy: Something like “Audio recorder: Toggle recording audio”

Current workaround (optional)

The only workaround that I can think of is to have a key combination modifier, something like Ctrl+R (on) and Ctrl+Shift+R (off). :neutral_face:

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This is a problem for me as well. On mobile it requires two separate buttons in the toolbar to perform the functionality of the single start/stop recording button on desktop

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Came here to say this as well. In addition to “limited hotkey budget”, it’s just easier to remember one hotkey instead of two.

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Using the CodeScript Toolkit plugin, you can put a .js file in whatever folder you set as the “Invocable scripts folder.” Then, you can assign a hotkey to that script.

This script toggles the audio recorder.

exports.invoke = async (app) => {
  function isCommandAvailable(commandId) {
    const cmd = app.commands.commands[commandId];
    if (!cmd || typeof cmd.checkCallback !== 'function') {
      return false;
    }
    try {
      return cmd.checkCallback(() => {}, true);
    } catch {
      return false;
    }
  };

  if (isCommandAvailable('audio-recorder:start')) {
    app.commands.executeCommandById('audio-recorder:start');
    new Notice('🔴 Recording started');
    return;
  }
  if (isCommandAvailable('audio-recorder:stop')) {
    app.commands.executeCommandById('audio-recorder:stop');
    new Notice('⏹️ Recording stopped');
    return;
  }
};

It will check if the “Audio recorder: Start recording audio” command is available, and, if it is, run that command. The command is no longer accessible while recording audio, but “Audio recorder: Stop recording audio” is… So, when you run the script again, it’ll run that instead.

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Oh, actually, figured out an even simpler way. app.internalPlugins.plugins["audio-recorder"].instance.recording returns a true/false. True if currently recording, false if not.

exports.invoke = async (app) => {
  if (app.internalPlugins.plugins["audio-recorder"].instance.recording) {
    app.commands.executeCommandById('audio-recorder:stop');
    new Notice('⏹️ Recording stopped');
  } else {
    app.commands.executeCommandById('audio-recorder:start');
    new Notice('🔴 Recording started');
  }
};
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