Recmon is a Hammerspoon spoon that allows you to obtain information about your CPU load, drive usage, etc at the press of a button.
First, download and install Hammerspoon. You can do so either from their Github, or if you have it installed, through homebrew simply by running:
$ brew install Hammerspoonin the terminal. Once you have it installed, run it, and follow the prompts to grant accessibility permissions (I also choose to hide the app from the dock here so it stays out of your command-tab switcher)
You also need to allow external apps to control VoiceOver through Apple Script. To do so, open VoiceOver utility with VO + f8, navigate to the "General" section and check the "Allow VoiceOver to be controlled with AppleScript" checkbox.
Once Hammerspoon is installed and configured, navigate into the folder where you cloned this repository with Finder or another file manager, and open "Recmon.spoon" which should cause Hammerspoon to install it into the right place. Finally, from the Hammerspoon menu extra select the open configuration option which should open your default text editor with your init.lua file. To make Recmon work and do its thing, simply add the following 2 lines:
hs.loadSpoon("recmon")
spoon.recmon:start()Save the file, return to the Hammerspoon menu extra but this time click the reload configuration option for your new changes to take effect. Mac OS will warn you that Hammerspoon is trying to control Voice Over. Grant it permission and the spoon should start working.
To use each feature, simply press ctrl+shift+the number next to it.
- Speak average CPU load, and how its distributed.
- Speak RAM usage (not working yet, see todo).
- Speak storage information about all connected drives.
- Speak OS version.
- Speak system uptime.
- Speak battery percentage, state, and time remaining.
- Speak information about your default input/output devices, their volume, and in the case of your input device, if its muted or not.
- Speak the text that's currently on your clipboard/pasteboard (if any).
- Add RAM usage. I couldn't find a reliable way to obtain RAM usage like Activity Monitor does, because the Mac had to be a special snowflake and introduce app memory and document no way to obtain it other than activity monitor. The outline for RAM usage is there, and the hotkey is bound, it just doesn't do anything yet.
If there's a feature you'd like to see added, feel free to open a pull request/issue. I'd prefer issues get opened before forging ahead with huge pull requests, unless the feature is already on the todo list.
Instillation instructions adapted from Indent Beeper, and Speech History.