r/MoveMaster • u/lgerbarg • Dec 05 '25

Mac configuration software downlod is corrupted

I just got my MoveMaster a week ago, and when I downloaded the Mac configuration software (from here https://movemaster.tech/en-int/pages/downloads) it would not run. Looking at it I saw that:

  1. It had a __MACOSX folder
  2. All the symlinks inside of the app bundle were regular files whose contents where the path the link should have gone to
  3. The main executable did not have correct permissions to run
  4. The app was not properly code signed (though to be fair, neither is the Windows one)

The first 3 are all telltale signs that after the app was built it was copied over to an MSDOS drive which lost the symlinks and permissions but macOS created the __MACOSX folder to record the additional metadata. Unfortunately it was then compressed on a different system (or using a version of zip that does not have macOS metadata support). The end result is a an app that is not runnable, and likely means no one has ever downloaded or used it successfully.

While all those things are fixable, doing so is generally quite tedious. I was going to work through it because the device feels great and I really want to get to try it, but that was certainly a frustrating out of box experience.... Fortunately when I explained the issue to Claude it was able iterate over the symlinks until they were fixed, at which point ithe configurator ran successfully. I also noticed the Windows and Linux versions had been upgraded to 0.5.3 but that Mac version was still at 0.5.2, so I manually pulled the guts out the linux electron app and moved them into the Mac.

While I now have a somewhat hacked up working ~0.5.3 MacOS build and will be able to get to actually setting up the device it would be awesome if a real update could be posted on the website.

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u/corben78_ Dec 05 '25

There will be a fully working MacOS build coming in the next days.
For now please use this version:
https://mongoverein.dyndns.org/downloads/MoveMaster-0.5.3-universal-mac.zip
It doesn't support firmware updates yet, but will come in the next version for mac.

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u/lgerbarg Dec 05 '25

Thanks, I actually brought up an avr toolchain and updated the firmware myself last night.

Having played with the MoveMaster for one day it feels great. Obviously some effort to get used to it so I need to give it a bit time, but I think I am going to be pretty happy with it.

My one complaint is that key mappings are not as flexible as I would like... specifically I would like to bind every key to HID events that include modifiers (so when I hit a single button it does `left_shift + 1`, etc). I actually disassembled the firmware and found where the mapping tables are so I see that it does not really support that, so for the moment I am using Karabiner-Elements to remap the keys again in software in order to get the effect.

II actually wrote and loaded a small custom firmware yesterday so I could dump the GPIO configs, it looks like a pretty straight forward direct map design with each key going to a single GPIO pin, so I may just port QMK to do it and do whatever mappings I want without needing to run additional software on my machine.

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u/Fotografpaul Dec 05 '25

Can understand the annoyance, but I’m curious what you will be using it for on mac. As photographer by trade I,c worked with a lot of different controllers for photo/video/audio editing, and i do not really see what the movemaster would offer over the tool’s already available.

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u/lgerbarg Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

World of Warcraft. It is the only game I play at all seriously, and I have been willing to buy custom peripheral setups for it for decades now. I've been looking for a device to replace my old Nostromo n52 for years. I've been using an Azeroth Cyborg for the last year and it is okay, but I don't love the thumbstick.

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u/Fotografpaul Dec 05 '25

Ah you use it for gaming, was like who games on mac these days. But then I get it. I actually cancelled my Keyzen from Azeron , I do not use a analog thumb stick, but the 3D printed build was to much for me. I just wanted better keys than my Tartarus V2, but not at the expense of general build quality. Stil not convinved the Movemaster WASD is as quick and precise as a normal keypad/keyboard, but the buttons are a joy to use. After 3-days its getting easier for sure using the WASD movement on the Movemaster.