I got a PowerMate for my birthday this year, and immediately tried it out with AppleScript. I wrote a small shell control script for the device that seems to work with any version of the software (I happen to be using 1.5.1, which is the out-of-the-box version). Here's the code:#!/bin/shshowMenu() { echo "-----------------" echo "PowerMate Control" echo "-----------------" echo echo "pulse x = Pulse at x rate, from 0-100." echo "on x = Device stays on with brightness x, from 0-100." echo echo "These two settings are mutually exclusive."}if [ $# = 0 ]; then showMenu;fiarg=$1if [ "$arg" = "pulse" ]; then num=$2 realnum=`echo "scale=0; ($num * 20) / 100" | bc` osascript -e 'tell a...

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