Small application that monitors your microphone status on Windows 10 Creators Update or newer and posts to a IFTTT webhook when your microphone becomes in use and when it stops being in use.
To do this, it monitors the status bar icon that Windows 10 provides:
However, there is no API to do this so it uses some gnarly Interop code to read the status bar. This stuff genuinely came from a Code Project article from 2005! And still works even in .NET Core!
To launch, open the exe file with a single launch parameter - that being your IFTTT webhook key which you can get from this page.
For example:
DotNetEd.CallStatusToIfttt.exe myiftttwebhookkey
The app sends the following two events:
| Webhook event name | when sent |
|---|---|
| microphone-is-on | when microphone starts to be in use |
| microphone-is-not-on | when microphone stops being in use |
You can then set up IFTTT like the following:
- Make the lights outside your office go Red when you are on a call. Train kids!
- Set your hifi to mute
- Turn on coffee machine
etc