Run command not working

[actuallysparky]

I'm trying to make a macro that will play a local alert on my monitoring speakers if audio is silent in OBS for more than a few seconds (I'm doing music streaming and sometimes OBS loses its connection to Ableton audio).

I'm having difficulty getting it to 'run' a script or command, and the fact that you also 'run' macros is making searching the documentation more challenging.

This configuration launches the shell script to edit in BBedit, not executes it in terminal:

I've also tried just plugging in the command directly and that doesn't do anything:

Any ideas here? The command works in terminal, and executing the silence.sh from within terminal does indeed play the file.

[WarmUpTill]

I would highly recommend that you supply the absolute path to the script or binary you want to execute.
In the first screenshot you have a . preceeding the /Users/... path which means that the path will be interpreted as a path relative to the obs binary, which likely does not exist.

The second screenshot example will not work as afplay is likely not a valid path either.
Your intention was likely to treat the Run field the same as a shell environment, but this not the case.
If you type afplay into a shell the location of the binary will be resolved using the PATH environment variable.
To find the absolute path to the afplay binary, you could try running this command in a terminal:

which afplay

Additionally the "./alert.wav" will have to be added as an argument and not as part of the file you want to execute.
Same as above I would recommend to use an absolute path instead.

I hope that clears things up and sorry about the late reply!
Let me know if you have any further questions.

[actuallysparky]

Now it's my turn to apologize for the late reply. This was very helpful. afplay was already in the path, but I think the . was there from force of habit and the crux of the issue. I have mostly got things working now. Thank you very much for your help.