Turning Do Not Disturb On or Off

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Hi!

Maybe it helps someone - I was just writing a Keyboard Maestro Script to setup my Screen-recording environment. And one of the things I wanted there is a Way to Turn On Do not Disturb.

I googled a lot most approached didn’t work or I didn’t like - but with that inspiration, here is a working shell script:

Turn DND On

--- snip

defaults -currentHost write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb -boolean true
defaults -currentHost write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturbDate -date "`date -u +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000\"`"

killall NotificationCenter

dnd=$(defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb)

  if [[ $dnd -eq 1 ]]; then
     echo "Turned DND is ON!"
  elif [[ $dnd -eq 0 ]]; then
     echo "Turned DND is OFF!"
  fi

--- snap

Turn DND Off

--- snip
defaults -currentHost write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb -boolean false

sleep 1
killall NotificationCenter

dndStat=$(defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui doNotDisturb)

if [[ $dndStat -eq 1 ]]; then
   echo "DND is ON!"
elif [[ $dndStat -eq 0 ]]; then
   echo "DND is OFF!"
fi
--- snap

I use that as a Execute Shell Script in Keyboard Maestro.

Cheers,
Chris

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