The next four buttons control “star” ratings of music and volume. The first four buttons, starting on the left, are playback controls: PlexAmp is a music player that leverages a Plex server back-end, which is running on my Synology. The top row of my Stream Deck is dedicated to PlexAmp controls (image above). You can find the Unofficial Stream Deck Plugin list here. The Stream Deck desktop app has a huge list of plugins, but there are also some outside of their app store. The free 96×96 PNGs are perfect for the Stream Deck. If you like the button images that I have, most of them are from the Fluency collection on. I am using the Stream Deck to launch a few Mac apps, which is super easy to do. There are some Mac specific plugins like ones to run Apple Shortcuts, Apple scripts, etc. I’m a Mac user, however most of the button functions I’m using are available to PC users as well. If you have the space, I strongly recommend starting with the XL as you will discover more and more uses over time. But I found so many uses that I quickly outgrew the smaller version. They also make a smaller version, which I initially bought. I’m not a gamer or streamer, so this post is focused on “productivity” uses of the Elgato Stream Deck XL. There are many, many dozens of plugins to do almost anything imaginable with the Stream Deck. It connects to your PC or Mac via a USB cable and the software running on your computer is how you program each button. For those of you not familiar with the Stream Deck XL, it is a “macro” controller of sorts where each button is a LCD screen that you can fully customize in terms of both image and functionality. A couple of years ago I got the Elgato Stream Deck XL.
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