A script to enable/disable certain keystrokes in BetterTouchTool when external keyboard connected/disconnected

btt-enable-disable.applescript.template

tell application "BetterTouchTool"
    activate
    update_trigger "EAE52DEC-26DA-40DC-8BB1-62A102FE676C" json "{\"BTTEnabled\" : %d}"
    update_trigger "7C3BC3BC-2B93-4674-8A5F-6697FDC6E723" json "{\"BTTEnabled\" : %d}"
end tell

index.js

const usbDetect = require('usb-detection');
const applescript = require('applescript');
const util = require('util');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

usbDetect.startMonitoring();

function runAppleScript(script) {
  applescript.execString(script, (err, rtn) => {
    if (err) {
      console.error(err);
    }
  });
}
const KEYBOARD_NAME = 'USB-HID Keyboard';
const SCRIPT_FMT = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'btt-enable-disable.applescript.template'), 'utf-8');
console.log(SCRIPT_FMT);
usbDetect.on('add', function(device) {
  if (device.deviceName !== KEYBOARD_NAME) {
    return;
  }
  runAppleScript(util.format(SCRIPT_FMT, 0, 0))
});

usbDetect.on('remove', function(device) {
  if (device.deviceName !== KEYBOARD_NAME) {
    return;
  }
  runAppleScript(util.format(SCRIPT_FMT, 1, 1))
});

package.json

{
  "name": "keyboard-switch",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Simple module to switch BTT preset when external keyboard is attached/deattached",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "Pavlo Osadchyi",
  "license": "MIT",
  "private": null,
  "dependencies": {
    "applescript": "^1.0.0",
    "usb-detection": "^4.1.0"
  }
}