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Tag: StreamDeck

Single button press to start or stop a Portainer docker stack

2026-03-222026-03-22 Danie
Alt text: Steampunk-themed illustration of a person pressing a large red button on a control panel in an industrial factory setting. Image credit: Google Gemini

A Portainer stack (related group of Docker containers) can be started and stopped remotely with the literal push of a button on a Stream Deck. Or you could create a desktop icon that does the […]

Blogdocker, portainer, StreamDeck, technology

Bitfocus Companion buttons can show status info from OS commands or OPNsense firewall on Stream Deck

2025-03-062025-03-06 Danie
Image shows "Bitfocus Companion Button Status for OS Commands," featuring green and red microphoned icons indicating active and inactive statuses.

This video will help if you need to execute various OS commands from a Stream Deck and you want to have your buttons show what the status is of what was executed. I demonstrate how […]

Blogbitfocuscompanion, StreamDeck, technology

You can turn an old phone into a Stream Deck for your PC: here’s how

2025-02-152025-02-15 Danie
A blue Bluetooth speaker stands beside a touchscreen device displaying colorful control buttons and a vintage-style keyboard.

Macro Deck is an open source software to use your Android smartphone, tablet or almost any touch screen device with an internet browser as a simple macro pad or even as a powerful automation solution […]

Blogopensource, StreamDeck, technology

10 non-stream things to use a Stream Deck for

2024-11-062024-11-06 Danie
A white Stream Deck device with two rows of four buttons, and beneath them, a short LED display showing the time as 12:59pm.

I’ve done a video before about how I’m using my Stream Decks (I even bought a second one) for so many different things. I’m using about 20 different pages at the moment and can quickly […]

Blogproductivity, StreamDeck, technology

Bitfocus Companion is a Cross-Platform Open-Source app for the Elgato Stream Deck

2024-09-072024-09-07 Danie
Text as per post title with teal blie colour background with an image of a Stream Deck which is a black box with buttons on the front, arrange 5 buttons wide by 3 rows high.

Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck and other controllers to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment. It has over 500 […]

Blogopensource, productivity, StreamDeck, technology

Cheap DIY open-source button pad can do a lot of what an expensive Stream Deck does

2024-08-142024-08-14 Danie
Black box with a round black know that looks like a volume knob. On top of the box can be seen 20 coloured buttons in a grid of 4 wide and 5 high. The buttons have logos on that depic a fan, a headlight, warning triangle, battery, temperature gauge, etc.

This is going to be way cheaper than buying a Stream Deck, but it will certainly cost a bit of time and effort getting it together. What it will do is allow for up to […]

BlogDIY, opensource, StreamDeck, technology

How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of a legendary keyboard

2024-07-172024-07-17 Danie
A computer keyboard showing on its left side showing two columns of 5 keys each with a small display under the key cap.

The keyboard was just a concept, dreamed up by Art Lebedev, a Russian design firm, and it was an ambitious idea at that: called the Optimus Maximus, it would require over 100 built-in screens using […]

Blogchange, StreamDeck, technology

StreamController Application on Linux for the Elgato Stream Deck

2024-07-062024-07-06 Danie
Teal colour background with white titling stating StreamController for Elgato Stream Deck. On teh right side is an image of a black Elgato Stream Deck with 15 buttons on it arranged in three rows.

StreamController is an elegant Linux application designed for the Elgato Stream Deck, offering advanced features like plug-ins and automatic page switching to enhance your streaming and productivity setup. It can support multiple Stream Decks together. […]

Bloglinux, opensource, streamcontroller, StreamDeck, technology

StreamController is a brand-new open-source app for enabling and managing the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux

2024-04-152024-04-15 Danie
A settings screen for StreamController showing Layout, Background, Lables, and Actions options on the left side, for the button selected on the right side. On the right are a matrix of 3 by 5 buttons which represent the StreamDeck buttons showing icons for various apps and actions.

Many of us were using Stream Deck UI, which was a fork from a previous such app which was no longer being maintained. The devs decided to restart the initiative using a different coding language […]

Bloglinux, opensource, StreamDeck, technology
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