sbz-switch VS AutoHotkey

Thought you might want to know about sbz-switch in case you didn't see my other comment.

After doing some Googling, I came upon sbz-switch on Github. Looking at it, I realized this is what I was looking for. This does SBZ settings manipulation at the command line; no window or mouse manipulation required. With sbz-switch in hand, I quickly wrote an AHK (AutoHotKey) script to toggle my headphones and speakers. To properly do the toggle, I do a Registry read (the same way SBZ Switcher did it) on the SBZ card settings. To figure out what Registry Key to read from, I decompiled SBZ Switcher to see how it does it (will be a device under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render) and quickly found the right DWORD that toggles (for me this was {77f01702-a9d1-11df-a289-000bdb7312a5},15). Knowing that, I can quickly read the current state (headphones or speakers) and then toggle appropriately. All with one hotkey with no window or mouse manipulation!

DownloadAHK() { global wb wb.Stop() file := A_Temp "\ahk-install.exe" switchPage("downloading") Sleep 10 if !Download("https://autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe", file, "DownloadAHK_Progress") { MsgBox 0x2010,, Download failed. switchPage("start") return } Run "%file%" /exec waitclose %A_ScriptHwnd% /exec downloaded "%file%" ExitApp } Exec_WaitClose(hwnd) { DetectHiddenWindows On WinWaitClose ahk_id %hwnd% } Exec_Downloaded(file) { ; global SilentMode := true DetermineVersion() QuickInstall()

All you have to do (other than have autohotkey installed) is

But, if you just install AutoHotKey, you can run these two scripts to select a first and a second dictionary: Select Dictionaries Zipfile

You could try (and I have no affiliation with) http://autohotkey.com - then allocate the key to something like ctrl-F13 (often unused - but reachable via sending system keystroke).

Honestly, it's a bit silly of autohotkey.com to have such strict protections, especially on its downloads. You may be able to workaround by using the github releases instead which are far less restrictive.

try out autohotkey.com

autohotkey.com Go to the ahk website, click download, then choose 'Download v1.1 (deprecated)'