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stretchphoto

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 3, 2011
18
0
Miami
Hi. I have four mac minis in kiosks around Miami. They're set to restart automatically after a power failure. I've noticed, however, that when they restart in such a situation, the volume in the System Preferences is lower than what I'd set it at previously.

I guess there's some sort of volume level it defaults to. Does anyone have any ideas on how to change that?

Thanks!
 

jiminaus

macrumors 65816
Dec 16, 2010
1,449
1
Sydney
The volume can be set from the command line with something like

Code:
/usr/bin/osascript -e 'set volume 7'

0 means silent. 7 means full volume.

Perhaps you could get that to run at startup.
 

stretchphoto

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 3, 2011
18
0
Miami
Yep, I think that's what I'm looking for.

Is that an applescript, or does it go into the terminal?

I'm a complete novice with this stuff, though I've had some recent success w/ automator and applescript.

Thanks.:)
 

jiminaus

macrumors 65816
Dec 16, 2010
1,449
1
Sydney
"set volume 7" is AppleScript. The command I gave above runs in the Terminal or a Bash script. It just runs the AppleScript via the osascript program.
 
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