Doesn't work on macOS 10.12 Sierra

[ZevEisenberg]

PianoKeys was working fine under 10.11, but I've updated two machines to 10.12, and now PianoKeys doesn't stay running, or doesn't start at all. I'm not sure which, but when I look in Activity Monitor after running pianokeys && pianobar, I just see pianobar, and hitting the media control keys just opens iTunes.

I looked in Console.app, and I see this when I search for piano keys:

default 13:47:51.826720 -0400   pianokeys   subsystem: com.apple.SkyLight, category: default, enable_level: 0, persist_level: 0, default_ttl: 7, info_ttl: 0, debug_ttl: 0, generate_symptoms: 0, enable_oversize: 0, privacy_setting: 0, enable_private_data: 0
default 13:47:51.873992 -0400   kernel  AMFI: allowing exception handler for 'pianokeys' (27975) because the process is unsigned.
default 13:47:51.876290 -0400   kernel  AMFI: allowing exception handler for 'pianokeys' (27975) because the process is unsigned.

[tassels]

Literally came across this same issue just now. Trying to figure it out but haven't found anything yet.

[muammar]

Sorry for the noise in this report, but have you found any solution for this yet?. I am experiencing the same problem.

[cjdaniel]

The problem appears to be with daemonizing. When I enable debug (by setting #define DEBUG 1 in PianoKeys/PianoKeys-Prefix.pch), thereby un-defining DAEMONIZE and some other things, pianokeys works. Just re-defining DAEMONIZE causes it to break again. I have no idea what I'm doing, so not sure where to go from here :-)

[ronilaukkarinen]

Just noticed the same, was wondering this for a long time but I see the problem is Sierra. Thanks @cjdaniel from the tip, it works now with #define DEBUG 1 for time being in separate terminal window.

[ronilaukkarinen]

Here's an alias to make it efficient to use pianokeys && pianobar with debug on:

alias pianobar='osascript -e '"'"'tell application "Terminal" to do script "pianokeys"'"'"' && pianobar'