Trigger a key event from a command line?

[aleksandr-vin]

Hi guys!

I'm trying to programmatically fire the play_or_pause key event in macos. It is possible to map a keyboard key (let's say 1) to fire that key event, but I still need to physically press the 1 on my keyboard. Sending it via CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent didn't work as it is not going into the karabiner_grabber obviously.

I need to trigger that somehow from the code. I was thinking of doing that with karabiner_cli by sending a control commands to the VirtualHIDDevice, if my understanding of the architecture is correct. Maybe there's another way?