Stream Deck Plugins All Gamers Should Have

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► Audio Switcher
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► Discord
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► Super Macro
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► Windows Mover and Resizer
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► IFTTT
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Presenter: Brett Sticklemonster
Writer: Kyler Himes
Videographer: Kyler Himes
Editor: Kyler Himes
Thumbnail Designer: Reece Hill

[@realgoose]

My favorite button on my stream deck is the END button. At the end of my work day, I press this button and all work windows are closed and apps quit, clearing up space and resources for gaming time.

[@LukeSmoke]

I just realized how useful that would be

[@Rapture_11B]

I can tell I would accidentally press that XD

[@drakkenxdiablo4674]

@@Rapture_11Bme too, bro. Me too XD

[@Tegneaufreak]

I use it for my lights, speakers on/off with Hue plugs, audio switch between speakers and headset. It's brilliant.

[@rcamarda390]

I have a XL stream deck that I use for work and play. For work I've used super macro (bar raider) to disconnect and connect to our various VPNs and OKTA websites. (There are about 10). While gaming, I use a super macro toggle button for the RUN command in games..helpful when I have to run across a large map while gaming.

[@GiSWiG]

I use mine with HWInfo and monitor system temps, usage, etc. and Spotify control, Playlist, etc. I use my Sound Blaster X4 to switch between speakers and headphones and for audio input from consoles

[@vhex6589]

I'd love to see a similar video to this, but with the Go XLR. I've been tempted to get one even though I don't stream for some of those neat audio features.

[@gamingwithduces3522]

I use my stream deck XL for work. I send a lot of repetitive messages throughout the day, so I have common phrases saved. Press the button and it types the message, sends the message, and moves me on to the next waiting message needing a reply all with the push of 1 button!

[@BrightEyes83]

been using one for almost a year now for discord rooms, mute and deafen, and audio switcher

[@mitchblackmore5230]

Using it to play PC games could be a very nice thing for lefties like me. My WSAD is the 'Arrow Keys' and then anything after that is whatever combination of 'Enter, Shift, Right Crtl', 'Insert, Home etc' cluster and the number pad that I can TRY to make as ergonomic as possible. Hint: It's rarely possible.

[@rlove21]

It's utterly ridiculous that the mouse and keyboard companies don't make gamer specific ergonomic mice and keyboards / game key pad for left handers 😢

[@DerpyNoodIe]

I pretty much use my stream deck for everything you mentioned but one thing I love using it for is mods! When I am playing on a custom server like FiveM, there are several slash commands that will do several things like call an NPC Tow Truck when my car breaks down, open the mod menu, etc. It starts to become difficult to keep track and remember each of the commands which has been a constant pain. The Stream Deck simplifies all of this by you creating custom buttons for each command and giving them a custom icon of your choosing. This makes entering commands not only super easy and fast, it also gives you a visual representation of all your commands; making it very easy to keep track of them all. So if your playing games with mods or just play games that have commands you frequently use (i.e. Lethal Company) then the Stream Deck is a fun and very useful device to have.

[@tomywusaman]

I set it up to run these things: Programming: Run macros, build tasks, SSH login, VSCode commands such as snippets, bookmarks, debug, view logs Gaming: Run macros, issue communication/chat command, send pre-defined chat messages Smart Home: Control smart light bulb, run ITTT commands Music: control Spotify, quick play my favorite playlist Input/output: Control audio input/output, quick mute & preset volume settings Info Panel: Date/time for cities around the world, currency exchange rates, stock price, bitcoin price Screensaver/Gallery: have StreamDeck display my favorite picture

[@Mathieu_Matheow_Benoit]

hardware info is a must to monitor ANY sensor/temps

[@Tim82621]

The discord webcam mic is the most real thing. Loved the humour here, thanks for the vid

[@andrewadams9686]

The Home Assistant plugin is a better option than the IFTTT, and cheaper if you can get your hands on a razpi or put it in a Docker container if you've got a NAS. I use the LED controls and the smart plugs for a 3D printer that can display power consumption, turn the printer off/on and send scripts to the OctoPrint controller. I also use the Pihole enable/disable plugin for getting to some of those legit things that Pihole blocks for whatever reason. Great video, would love to see a follow up!

[@LitlNickyScarfo]

Thanks for that as I've had HA setup for a month and had no idea someone made a plugin

[@bigdeagle1331]

Bought the 15 button one for my 17 year old son! He used it a couple of times! Hasn’t been used in 2 years now

[@Sovietycii]

gimme

[@danieljohanson7775]

I have my cpu & gpu temps on my stream deck thru the Icue plugin, very nice if youre overclocking and dont wanna melt ur parts. Media keys are huge for me, i have a 60% board so its nice to be able to skip and pause my music. If you use spottily def use that plugin so you can pause youtube videos and your music at different times.

[@Heartless8604]

I use mine in Final Fantasy 14 to switch between jobs with keybinds.

[@IrocZIV]

I use one for shortcuts in all kinds of apps. I just wish I had got the bigger one.

[@CAJames902]

Stream Deck is great for games with text-based commands. I have mine set up with 2 pages for Roleplay on GTA. One page with general actions, one page with emotes.

[@The_MightyFrOg]

Never thought of using mine for FiveM thanks for the advice🤙🏼

[@itsdeonlol]

Very cool hat the Stream Deck can do all of this!

[@andrewanderson2672]

Thanks for all the great information!!

[@juliusnavarro6990]

I play left handed and me using my stream deck in place of the left side of my key board would work perfectly for me but I don't know how to set that up

[@cajamanual6713]

I didn't decide between Elgato Stream Deck + (w KNOBS) , just 15 Key Stream Deck or Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad. I'm thinking to buy the nob Controller too to make a Combo. Which one you will choose base in your experience?

[@greaper1976]

I'll get a stream deck the day I can tell it to make coffee and bring it to me...

[@homeworxchannel4120]

There is also awesome coding options especially DCS interface

[@neccros007]

I already know what I can do with it, but where are the videos that tell you how to program the buttons and do all the functions?

[@Dammit_Jae]

It's amazing for blender and unity

[@ChristianRaps]

Thanks for the macro plugin tip

[@lthbxfrosty5256]

I’ve had my stream deck for years but never set it up yet Lol. Gonna change that soon.

[@jamiem7740]

well im not a gamer.. i like sounds effects during a stream when it comes to a topic that lame or funni or exciting like the Vikings " viking horn " im excited to try something new to bring to my streams when i am live

[@DvDPlaya]

Use mine the most to quickly switch between headphones and loud speakers.

[@DRGONZOO]

Have the 15 button streamdeck like the one in this video, I have sounds on my soundboard set up and can hear them through my headphones when I press the button, but nobody else can hear the sounds on discord? What’s the easiest way too fix this? Thank you

[@tonyjefford8449]

What is the background he has there that looks kinda cool?

[@schnup2000]

i just got my hands on a stream deck plus and i have to say the most usable thing for me would be having the mini displays to show my GPU/CPU usage% and temperatures, all those macro and programmable buttons i just have as a button mapped to my G buttons on Logitech keyboard. and sadly those dials arent really supported by elgato plugins, atleast not yet

[@bamboochute]

I just ordered a stream deck and I want to show the same things. I’m also a software engineer so if those don’t currently exist I will create them

[@MrInterpriser]

How to display gpu utilization with them? There’s no plugin for it in the elgato marketplace

[@bamboochute]

@@MrInterpriser I’m saying I will develop a custom plugin

[@MrInterpriser]

@@bamboochute cool, alright

[@Halocraft021]

W@@bamboochute

[@LetPapaCook]

The controller is dope didnt think of that

[@aharonsidorov5145]

Is there a cheaper alternative?

[@VRIceblast]

Yeah, I have my stream deck setup to turn my lights on and off, my fan, and to charge my phone. I also have it setup as a timer. I have it go from 30 seconds, to 17 minutes in 30 second intervals. So when I'm cooking something, and I'm using my headphones, I'll hear the alarm go off in my headset, letting me know to flip something, or that my food is ready. I have it set for my VR, just push one button, and it turns on all my lights, changes the audio to the headset, starts the software, and I'm ready to go. Then when I'm done, it returns everything back the way it was. Voice Monkey is a free skill you can use to control you home devices, and that's how you can trigger them from your stream deck. It's pretty easy to setup, but I would recommend looking up a video on how to do it, makes it very simple to do.

[@adamkrtek9004]

I got one to try to try to change the active monitor to be able to fast switch between my monitor and a tv but am still trying to make it work

[@iixorb]

I wonder how useful it could be for DAWs (music creation) like Ableton. Hmm 🤔

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Very useful, midi hardware control as well. 😁🎶🎹🎶Play On

[@Evo187]

i use it on my sim rig as a butten box / multimedia / audio switcher because i hate keybords on a sim rig

[@bluelucksucks]

Elgato, is a very respectable company

[@itssteven_or_not]

I use it for my smart home I connected my smart light and smart ac to it and in a click of a button my room is as cold as antartica

[@xmarshmallowzx]

Is there any way that there are echo plugins? For our voice?

[@robertjones1081]

Teaching I set up three Mini,Mk2 XL to bring me to my grade 4 google classroom assignments and enter all of this with one push ("Is your name and date on the paper?Is the name or page number of the assignment above the first line on the left? Read the directions carefully Write all of the sentenes. Check for a proper capitalization and punctuation. When finished please turn in the assignment to google classroom.") as well sright to google classroom grades

[@tsandhu4]

i think there is away to use it in microsoft flight sim 2020

[@scottgardiner7418]

Is there any teamspeak plug ins

[@Chemy.]

Interesting,i didn't know you can use this for that much being honest.

[@Hypedgaming]

Can anyone help share a video of making a custom diy macro keyboard but very similar to this

[@jean-phil]

hehe first time I notice a youtuber using their hand to press something while recording/filming .. I guess it's a way to quickly split the video to make editing faster after .. or maybe to scroll the text of what he needs to say .. you know elgato sells pedals as well ? ;p

[@SubtoChoice]

I have the foot pedals so whenever my boss walks in on me I can make it open up a 3d designing program in under a second. Most useful thing i have

[@notalive_zombie]

I wonder if I could use this for Warcraft?

[@thedrew24]

KZbin algorithm boosting comment 💪 ... music loop station, would be really useful for it!!

[@beardedretroguy6428]

I use my Stream Deck as a button box with American Truck Simulator.

[@jaripruim]

It's awesome for video editing

[@CheapBastard1988]

Can it control VLC media player without changing the active window? Because that's the only use case I can think of for me personally.

[@Strikercoach]

without a doubt.. but if thats ALL you can think of to use it for, that that's likely not worth the investment. dont you think?

[@MrInterpriser]

There a plugin for vlc

[@DeanTWaters]

The Windows Mover plug-in doesn't do anything. I'm guessing it doesn't know how to handle multi-monitor setups. I want to take an active window and move it to the edge of a screen. Simple. Looks like this isn't an option. Can't find any documentation for the plug-in on the developer's page. A idea for a worthwhile plug-in would be one that would allow me to push a button and have my work windows open and move/resize to their correct locations. THAT would be huge value. I was hoping this plug-in could do that.

[@bigdamij]

You should give it another try because I use it on a 3 monitor setup and it works fine.

[@wilferd]

Steam Deck + Shuttle Pro v2 for Figma +1000!!

[@user-super-user]

you can make a diy streamdeck that would likely be better

[@Strikercoach]

link me when you do.

[@sfeogese]

Can you allocate different buttons to for differnt KZbin channels?

[@Strikercoach]

yes, you can set up as many macros as you want pretty much. so you can have loads of websites at a push of a button. there are even custom animations for the buttons.

[@boltbuild]

I dont know if anyone here can help me but mine powers off if I plug it in on my pc but not on my laptop

[@fiku4444]

HW info CPU GPU FPS monitoring screen shots windows power profiles

[@AntonioGarcia-ir5rz]

Use it for helldivers now

[@harleycriswell8504]

For anyone going wow that's cool but I can't afford one. You can do most of this with a 20$ usb 10 key pad off of Amazon and some Google fu

[@aasakti_]

or using autohotkey software, and you dont need to move your fingers from keyboard at all

[@Strikercoach]

@@aasakti_ damn dude the keys will change to show pictures with words so i dont need to memorize 300 keybinds? lol cool keyboard you got bro.

[@dothedew8250]

can you use it to turn off your phone, man that was distracting AF

[@klipk7296]

Aren't sponsored videos supposed to have a proper disclosure?

[@LukeSmoke]

2:06 nah w game, even though it's rated M (not esrb)

[@CeceliPS3]

I'm afraid to use macros even for texting in-game. Imagine getting banned for THIS? oof

[@yodek1846]

What the hell is with your right hand - showing up and hiding under desk, constantly?

[@yodek1846]

Or it is a trick that "few inches/ centimeters of below of screen" is virtually added bar of picture with Stream Deck?

[@panth5501]

I wonder what kind of gamer who does not stream would actually even have stream deck! This gotta be sponsored right ? At least mention that its sponsored if it is!

[@qqlez]

youtube has strict policies around sponsers, if they were sponsered they would have to explicitly say it

[@ZoeyR86]

I'm an engineer I work in a lot of different programs, Solidworks, CREO, OrCad, Altium, fusion. Plus all Google meetings emails etc, audio config. My desk setup changed a few times during covid but my custom corner desk with the tower behind my center screen on my tripple 32in 1440p screens (442cd peek calibrated with a delta of 1.1) all on tripple 3090 TI's on my 5995wx setup with 512GB of ECC memory. Supermicro main board. My setup is not the best

[@twoheavensgaming]

There are no screws that attach the back piece, to the ACTUAL stream deck piece. It's unsecure, and the only way to keep it upright on your desk is by a fucking USB made in Taiwan. Waste of Money; will return.

[@MrInterpriser]

🤡🤡🤡

[@jiamingzuo9416]

The thing is，it's too expensive😢

[@Strikercoach]

quality is HQ> not gonna lie.. the cheaper options feel... well cheaper!

[@EriX88888]

finally not another hot news

[@agedelder5338]

Has anyone asked whats he clicking under the desk?

[@jean-phil]

this !!!!!!!! I'm pretty he uses it to split the video for editing .. i would use a wireless pen maybe .. more subtil

[@incognitocat8905]

epoice

[@philshort5165]

Would you send me one for free ,I would love to get my hands on a steam deck ,it's ab unbelievable price of kit ,😢shame I can't afford it ,you could send me one out of good will ❤

[@ErikISkogen]

This is 99% epic! But stop with the Fortnite comments, we are not playing that unless there are some 13 year olds in here😅

[@Ice_wollow_CoME]

I’m just trying to get this thing for the soundboard