Install the app
Download the signed Mac app from blowhorn.ai and verify it.
Install the app
Download the signed Blowhorn app for macOS, verify it, install it, and open it.
Early access: the app does not bundle its command-line engine yet. On first run it asks for a checkout of Blowhorn, which your Blowhorn administrator gives you access to (see First run).
Download
Download the latest build from the blowhorn-site releases, the same place the blowhorn.ai download button links:
- Blowhorn-mac.dmg - always the latest build, for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
- SHA256SUMS.txt - the checksums for that release.
Verify the download before you open it. With both files in the same folder:
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing
The line for Blowhorn-mac.dmg must read OK.
Install
- Open the downloaded
.dmg. - Drag the app to Applications.
- Open it from Applications. A notarized build opens without a warning.
You need macOS 13 or newer and Google Chrome. Chrome is not bundled: Blowhorn drives the Chrome profiles you already sign in to, through its Chrome extension, which you add to each Chrome profile you post from (Install the Chrome extension).
First run
The app opens on its Setup screen and checks, in order, the Blowhorn checkout, its Python environment, the connection to your organization's data, your Chrome profile mappings (Map Blowhorn profiles to Chrome profiles), and the background service. Each row says what it found, or what to do next. Every row is described under Setup in The Blowhorn app, screen by screen.
Then check sessions and run a dry-run post. Nothing is published until you
post without --dry-run.
Early access: signing in with your Blowhorn account and a bundled engine that needs no checkout are still being built. When they ship, they replace the checkout and Python rows.
Update
Updates come from the same releases page. The app installs an update and
relaunches when this machine can reach the releases; otherwise it opens the
release page and you download the newer .dmg and drag the app over the old
copy. The background service and your settings are kept.
Related
- What runs when the app is closed - the background service, quitting, and updates.
- The Blowhorn app, screen by screen - every screen, including Setup.
- Install the Chrome extension - the extension each mapped Chrome profile needs.