Elgato Gaming Downloads. AUDIO CAPTURE. HD60 Pro 4K60 PRO cam link 4k Screen Link Video Capture Accessories Software FIND YOUR FIT STREAM DECK XL Stream Deck. Stream Deck for Mac. DOWNLOAD (Version x.x.x) Requires x.x.x or later. Now back in Elgato Stream Deck software, let’s create a profile for OBS to store all of our OBS specific button commands. Click the top left-hand corner dropdown menu and click “edit profiles”. In the preferences, window click the plus button to add a new profile for OBS.
The Elgato Stream Deck offers amazing control for streaming and more (oh, so much more). It also offers support for StreamElements OBS.Live add-on for OBS Studio, which makes stream management easy.
You can find OBS.Live by searching within the Stream Deck software’s “more actions” section, along with specific configuration options for the add-on. So let’s go over what you can do with OBS.Live and Stream Deck!
First things first, you’ll need to install the Elgato Stream Deck software! Head over to the downloads page on the Elgato website (here) and select the download for Stream Deck.
Open the file and install once the download is complete. If you haven’t already plugged your Stream Deck in by this point, feel free to hook it up to any free USB port on your computer. Open the Stream Deck software and it should recognize the hardware.
You can press the middle button for welcome information, but for now, you can mouse over to it in the Stream Deck software, right click, and select delete. Now you have a blank slate and we can get started.
Adding StreamElements OBS.Live to the Actions List
With the Stream Deck software open, the next thing you’ll need to do is to select “more actions” on the the bottom right.
While you can scroll down here and look for “StreamElements OBS.Live,” it’s much quicker to use the search bar in the top right. Just type “StreamElements” and you will see what we need to get going. Click on “install” to add it to the Stream Deck software.
OBS.Live-Specific Actions for the Stream Deck
You now have StreamElements OBS.Live added to the Stream Deck software with a handful of OBS.Live specific actions.
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Nine of the actions are highlighted with blue text and these denote OBS.Live-specific actions separate from standard OBS Studio actions, which are already available by default in the Stream Deck software.
The titles of the actions are pretty self-explanatory but in case you need any further information on them, just hover the mouse over the action item for a short explanation of what it does. This also applies for every action item available in the Stream Deck software as well.
At this point, OBS needs to be open so go ahead and open
Adding an Action Item
To add any action item to your Stream Deck, just click and drag the desired action item onto any available square. Generally, for most Stream Deck action items, you would want to add a title or different icon. However, there’s no need to do that with OBS.Live as the default icon contains the title and basic image that correlates to what it does! This helps to keep it simple and straightforward!
With OBS open, you can test out any of your new OBS.Live action items. Just press the button on the Stream Deck and see what happens. The Charge KappaGen will be a crowd favorite for sure!
How to Configure Basic Scene Actions in Stream Deck
With your OBS.Live actions ready to go, all that is left is to do is configure your scene switching with the Stream Deck! If you have two scenes, for example, just drag the “scene” action item onto an available square and name it. If its your primary scene, “Primary” isn’t a bad name to go with!
Using the dropdowns, you can select which scene collection the scene you’d want to switch to is on. This would usually be your main streaming scene collection. Then, “scene” itself is where you choose the specific scene. Do this for as many scenes as you’d like, then, pressing the button on the Stream Deck will switch you back and forth effortlessly.
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In this video, we will demonstrate how to set up an Elgato Stream Deck as a live streaming control surface for your favorite live streaming software and PTZ camera controls for PTZOptics cameras. Once you have unboxed your StreamDeck, go ahead and plug it into your computer which will provide the unit with power and connectivity. Your computer should recognize the USB connection almost immediately. The StreamDeck should light up showing you that everything is working. You are almost ready to go! Now you need to download the latest software to setup your StreamDeck at, https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/downloads.
Note: If you are planning to use your StreamDeck to control OBS, make sure that you have OBS already installed. The StreamDeck control panel installs a plugin for OBS when it downloads. It will not load properly if OBS is installed after you install the StreamDeck control panel.
Elgato Stream Deck for OBS and vMix
Once you have downloaded the software for either Mac or Windows you can go ahead and launch the program. You are now ready to program your stream deck. On the bottom right corner, there is a button for more actions. This is where you can install custom action such as a CPU usage monitor, an analog clock and support for 3rd party streaming software such as vMix. Support for OBS, Mixer, StreamLabs, Twitch, Twitter, xSplit, and YouTube are built in by default. You can add commands to your stream deck by dragging and dropping the commands you would like to appear on your StreamDeck to the buttons represented in this application. For each button, you should see that you can customize the name of the button. You will also be presented with options for configuration.
The physical device will show your changes as you are making them. A unique feature for the StreamDeck allows users to create profiles that allow you to open up new sets of buttons. For example, you can have a home profile and then you can have a profile for each PTZOptics camera in your studio or each social media platform you would like to control. You can add website shortcuts, application shortcuts, camera controls, audio buttons, and much more. For this example, we will create a unique profile for a PTZOptics camera in our studio. You can also automate your live streaming software such as vMix, xSplit, and OBS. For this example, we will also demonstrate how you can use Open Broadcaster Software. You can control your PTZOptics camera directly inside OBS or you can create custom buttons to call PTZ camera presets.
Elgato Stream Deck camera control
Let’s start by setting up OBS. Go ahead and create a scene for each PTZOptics camera with that we want to use with a built-in camera preset command. We will use a web browser input to automatically control our PTZ cameras when we switch to our OBS scenes. Start by opening up OBS and adding a scene for your first camera. Add your camera source and a browser source. Inside the browser, source uses the HTTP command for calling a camera preset. Set up your camera preset in the location you would like the camera to be at in this OBS scene. Don’t forget to click the “Refresh Browser when the scene becomes active” button to make sure OBS sends the PTZOptics camera a preset command every time you switch to this input. You can now duplicate this scene and change the HTTP command to represent a new camera PTZ preset.
Now back in Elgato Stream Deck software, let’s create a profile for OBS to store all of our OBS specific button commands. Click the top left-hand corner dropdown menu and click “edit profiles”. In the preferences, window click the plus button to add a new profile for OBS. We can now access this profile and create a new set of buttons that we can access from our home screen. It’s a good idea to also create a button to go back to the home screen at any time in these newly created profiles. Let’s start by adding a stream and record button inside our OBS profile. Then in the OBS studio dropdown menu found in the right-hand sidebar, add a scene for each scene you have created inside of OBS. You can drag a “Scene” into any button in this profile. You can then name and configure which scene this button will trigger. Because our OBS scenes have built-in HTTP commands being sent to our PTZOptics camera, the cameras will move automatically when a scene is called. You can go ahead and test this by pressing the buttons.
custom HTTP commands for Elgato Stream Deck
Optionally, you can send PTZ camera preset commands directly to PTZOptics cameras. This may be a better option for remotely controlling your cameras. To do this, set up another profile in your StreamDeck for each PTZOptics camera you would like to control. In your newly created profile, choose the “Website” option under the systems tab. Here you can name your preset and enter the HTTP command from the list available on ptzoptics.com/downloads.
Note: You will need to know your cameras IP address in order to use HTTP commands. Generally, an HTTP command contains multiple variables used to communicate with your PTZOptics camera over IP.
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You can customize the variables in the HTTP command to perform various video production actions with your PTZOptics robotic camera. Do not forget to click “Access in Background” option so that your StreamDeck does not open up a new web-browser every time that you use the button. And that’s it! You now know how to set up an Elgato Stream Deck to control OBS and PTZOptics cameras. Setting this system up with other video production systems will be a fairly similar process. If you have questions please let us know in the comments below. We are really enjoying this new StreamDeck and look forward to sharing more in the future! So don’t forget to subscribe!
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