Grant Gilliam
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Signal 1:1 (and group) calls didn't auto-record. Root cause confirmed on-device: Signal is Electron and holds the mic in a HELPER process (org.whispersystems.signal-desktop.helper.Renderer, a child of the main app). detectViaMicAttribution only matched PIDs listed in NSWorkspace.runningApplications against the main bundle ID, so the helper's mic use was never attributed to Signal. (Zoom worked = single native process; Meet worked = browser resolved.) Fix: iterate the mic-using PIDs and resolve each to its owning app by walking the parent-process chain (sysctl KERN_PROC_PID → ppid) until an NSRunningApplication is found. Helper PIDs that return nil directly now resolve to the main app. Validated against the live Signal helpers: pids 2383/2372 → org.whispersystems.signal-desktop. Superset of the old behavior, so Zoom/Meet detection is preserved (browser case now also more robust); our own recording is still skipped (selfPID).
Ten31 Transcripts
Native macOS menu-bar app that auto-detects conference calls, records local audio,
builds a visual-derived speaker timeline, and hands audio + timeline to the
SparkControl backend for naming/transcription. See docs/ for the full spec.
This repo is at Phase 0 (scaffold, permissions, backend health check).
One-time setup
- Install Xcode from the Mac App Store (free; ~40 GB). Open it once and accept the license prompt.
- Install XcodeGen (generates the Xcode project from
project.yml):brew install xcodegen - Generate the project:
This creates
xcodegen generateTen31Transcripts.xcodeproj(git-ignored — regenerate any time). - Open it:
open Ten31Transcripts.xcodeproj - Signing is preconfigured:
project.ymlsetsDEVELOPMENT_TEAMto the free personal teamBK4Y6CXN35with automatic signing, so Signing & Capabilities should already show the team — no manual selection needed. (If you ever sign with a different Apple ID, updateDEVELOPMENT_TEAMinproject.yml, not in Xcode —xcodegen generateoverwrites Xcode-side changes.) - Press Run (⌘R).
Note: after adding files in a new phase, re-run
xcodegen generateand let Xcode reload the project. The signing team persists because it lives inproject.yml, so macOS permissions stay granted across rebuilds.
What Phase 0 does
- Launches as a menu-bar-only app (no Dock icon).
- Menu panel shows live status for the three permissions it needs — Microphone, Screen Recording, Accessibility — with Grant / Open Settings buttons.
- Shows a backend health check (
GET /api/status) against the configured host. - Settings: backend base URL, skip-TLS toggle (on by default for the self-signed cert), output folder, and adapter toggles (inert this phase).
No audio capture, call detection, screen reading, or backend hand-off yet — those
arrive in Phases 1–6 (docs/04_BUILD_PLAN.md).
Project layout
project.yml # XcodeGen recipe → generates the .xcodeproj
Ten31Transcripts/
App/ Ten31TranscriptsApp.swift, AppDelegate.swift
UI/ MenuBarView, SettingsView, PermissionRow
Permissions/PermissionsManager.swift
Backend/ SparkControlHealth.swift, InsecureTrustDelegate.swift
Settings/ AppSettings.swift
Support/ Info.plist, Ten31Transcripts.entitlements
Ten31TranscriptsTests/ # placeholder; real tests land in Phase 3
Notes
- App Sandbox is off and Hardened Runtime is off — this is a personal, LAN-only tool that must observe other apps. Revisit only if distributing.
- The default backend host is
https://your-spark-backend.local:62419(editable in Settings).