Example configurations for AnyBar and Ubsersicht to get a visual cue representing your zoom mute status. Credits https://gist.github.com/tyhawkins/66d6f6ca8b3cb30c268df76d83020a64

zoom-mute-status-setup.md

Zoom mute status setup for os x

Pick one of these approaches

AnyBar

Pick this approach if you want to show the status in the menu bar, like this https://share.getcloudapp.com/9Zu8Ok97

• Install https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar
• Run it
• Place the zoom-status.sh on your path. Alongside it place the zoom-mute-status.scpt.
• chmod u+x zoom-status.sh
• Run it with nohup zoom-status.sh &

Ubersicht

Pick this approach if you want to show the status on the desktop.

• Install https://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
• Run it
• Click its icon and open the widgets folder.
• Place a folder zoom-mute-status within it, with the files zoom-mute-status.jsx and zoom-mute-status.scpt from this gist

zoom-mute-status.jsx

// This is a simple example Widget to get you started with Übersicht.
// For the full documentation please visit:
// https://github.com/felixhageloh/uebersicht

// You can modify this widget as you see fit, or simply delete this file to
// remove it.

// this is the shell command that gets executed every time this widget refreshes
export const command = "osascript zoom-mute-status/zoom-mute-status.scpt";

// the refresh frequency in milliseconds
export const refreshFrequency = 1000 * 1;

// the CSS style for this widget, written using Emotion
// https://emotion.sh/
export const className = `
  top: .1rem;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: Helvetica Neue;
`;

const view = {
  muted: { color: "green", label: "Muted" },
  unmuted: { color: "red", label: "Unmuted" },
};

// render gets content the shell command has executed. The command's output
// is passed in as a string.
export const render = ({ output, error }) => {
  if (error) console.error(error);
  const trimmedOutput = output.replace("\n", "").toLowerCase();
  const { color, label } = view[trimmedOutput];
  return <span style={{ color }}>{label}</span>;
};

zoom-mute-status.scpt

property btnTitle : "Mute audio"

if application "zoom.us" is running then
  tell application "System Events"
  	tell application process "zoom.us"
  		if exists (menu item btnTitle of menu 1 of menu bar item "Meeting" of menu bar 1) then
  			set returnValue to "Unmuted"
  		else
  			set returnValue to "Muted"
  		end if
  	end tell
  end tell
else
  set returnValue to ""
end if

return returnValue

zoom-status.sh

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  if [[ "$(osascript zoom-mute-status.scpt)" == "Muted" ]]
  then
    echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738
  else
    echo -n "red" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738
  fi
sleep 1
done