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I bought one of these a couple of years ago with plans to use it for macros, shortcuts etc, but gave up using it because I found the system for writing your own
by cal85 4y ago
I bought one of these a couple of years ago with plans to use it for macros, shortcuts etc, but gave up using it because I found the system for writing your own plugins and generally configuring it was beyond awful, it felt like a designed-by-committee horror show. The complexity to just just set the button image and make it run a bash script when pressed was insane.
But I really wanted it to work, I can think of tons of useful buttons I want to have on my desk. Maybe I will give it another try. Can you tell me, have you got any tips, found any good third party tools for working with it? Maybe I just went down the wrong rabbit holes.
- victorbjorklund 4y agoAre you using a mac? If so then the perfect combo is streamdeck + keyboard maestro. There are several great plugins for streamdeck that makes it easy to run keyboard maestro automations
- eddieroger 4y agoAlso honorable mention for the Mac, Hammerspoon. It has a native interface for Stream Deck and can do a considerable amount by itself for the price of a taskbar executable. My favorite is its ability to send keystrokes directly to specific apps. so I can have global a/v mute for Zoom.
- haunter 4y agotbh I didn’t have a problem with the official Windows app so I can’t say anything about that much But under Linux I used this https://timothycrosley.github.io/streamdeck-ui/ https://timothycrosley.github.io/streamdeck-ui/ Works pretty well by my experience under Debian. There are some edge cases like Wayland (see the issues) though.
- PurpleRamen 4y agoI also use streamdeck-ui with linux, but it's fair to say that it's really basic. Nothing compared with the windows-app. And lately it has also some quirks, which made me basically abonden most usage of my streamdeck.
- genericacct 4y agoI use a combination of a usb joypad + a 50 line C app for a similar effect