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I've installed Ouimeaux to control a Belkin Wemo on OSX, and it's working correctly in Terminal - meaning that the following command in Terminal will toggle my Wemo switch on/off:

wemo switch Myswitchname toggle

It works. Now, I'd like to assign a hotkey to that with BetterTouchTool. It seems like it'd be as easy as selecting the option to Execute Terminal Command in BetterTouchTool... but pressing the hotkey does nothing. It works in Terminal though. Do I need to write it differently for BetterTouchTool?

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I feel silly for not figuring this out myself, but I'll post it here in case anyone else is having a similar issue.

In Terminal, I can simply type this command and it works:

wemo switch Myswitchname toggle

But with the Execute Terminal Command in BetterTouchTool, it needed to be entered this way in order to work:

/usr/local/bin/wemo switch Myswitchname toggle
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  • I couldn't figure it out either, thanks for sharing.
    – Jigar
    Commented Dec 8, 2015 at 8:01
  • I bet this has to do with your .bash_profile not being sourced by non-login sessions. If your PATH is set there, you won't be able to depend on that PATH from BTT. If you set your PATH in .bashrc instead it will probably work. (I haven't tested it but just mentioning it here in case it helps someone.)
    – Wildcard
    Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 23:29
  • BTT currently explicitly states that "Be sure to use absolute paths to any executable, as BTT doesn't source your PATH or other settings."
    – Mark Allen
    Commented Mar 24, 2021 at 11:02

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