The native Slack application has the capability to manually adjust a user's status, but does nothing automatically. The manual nature of switching your status based on where or what you're doing is tedious. This app attempts to ease that pain point by automatically adjusting status based on factors it can discern.
This status bar automatically (or manually) updates a user's Slack status based on information from the user's calendars and Wireless SSID in use. It only works on Mac OS X and is only effective for users that use Mac's default calendar application and wireless for networking.
Currently the app can detect 4 types of statuses
- Vacationing - scans the vacation calendar for events for the current time
- In a Meeting - scans the work calendar for events for the current time
- Working Remotely - compares the SSID currently in use with the given work SSID
- Away - detects the lock state of the screen and sets away if locked
pip install -r requirements.txtRun the following command to build the application into alias mode.
python setup.py py2app -A- Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Slack Status/config.yaml
- Enter the token for your Slack user
- Enter your work wireless SSID
- Enter names for your work and vacation calendars
- Optionally you may want to edit some of the other settings
Run the following to start the application
open dist/Slack\ Status.appRunning from the command line
python main.py