Lost in Candy Store - StreamDeck and Moom

macOS
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I just got a StreamDeck and I think I’ve fallen down a fairly deep rabbit hole.

Where do people ask discuss StreamDecks? I was hoping to see other people’s setups to be inspired?

Moom portion - I’ve started to setup a folder for all of my Moom actions. So far so good. If I then use the context sensitive actions i.e. Obsidian actions only available when Obsidian is the frontmost app; MS word actions when it is frontmost; …

How do i make it so I can always invoke the Moom actions everywhere? Does this require that I give it Moom a slot in each subfolder?

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Look here for Stream Deck discussion on the MPU forums.

Have fun!

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You would either have to put a Moom button on every profile or a button to a default profile. What I do is invoke Moom using Keyboard Maestro palette. I’ve remapped the Caps Lock key to F18 and have a conflict palette that includes a macro to summon Moom.

As for Stream Deck setups, I’ve had one for a while, but was inspired by a recent episode here and on MPU to go through and revamp my profiles. I use a lot of buttons linked to KM macros using the KM-Link plugin.

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This is my default profile and from top left:

  • Lights: a folder of controls for Hue lights
  • Daily Note: Calls up today’s Daily Note in Obsidian
  • Omnifocus: folder of buttons linking to particular OF perspectives
  • Drafts: calls up Drafts
  • AirTable: Ditto AirTable
  • Volume controls
  • Content idea: Supposed to link to a Shortcut but not working right now
  • Apps: folder of commonly used apps
  • Directory: a “directory” profile that has buttons to open any of my Stream Deck profiles
  • Show Folders and Recordings: Open Finder folders for my two most commonly used work folders
  • Start My Day: KM macro to launch my work apps and get my system ready to work
  • Page 2

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Page 2 has a bunch of Apple Music controls, like Play, shuffle, etc. The headphone button toggles between the Mac’s headphone jack and my AirPods, using the Audio Devices plugin.

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I won’t go through all of my profiles, but this is my “directory of profiles” profile and I can share any specific ones if you’re interested.

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@MevetS Funny I had looked on MPU as well. This forum seemed to have more. A little bit surprised Elgato has created its only place to discuss, beyond a redditt forum that gets support questions.

@DomBett wow. I’ve already cribbed some ideas like the content idea button; start my day; …

Is there an elegant way to change the profile in use based on a modifier like the CTRL key? I.E. Write a KM Macro that switches the StreamDeck profile while the CTRL is held down?

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Yeah, I often check both places. MPU seems to have more activity, with the traffic here being more specialized.

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I don’t believe that there is a way to “hot switch” a profile, but it’s an interesting feature idea. Maybe if Elgato did it in combination with their new pedal. In the meantime, the directory of profiles will have to do for me.

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Actually I think this might easier than I guessed. I think that I can use a KM to automate the profile selector in the StreamDeck menu bar app.

Cue the evil genius sounds.
- Mark

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Wow, Menubar apps are evil.

Luckily this has come up on the KM forum before:

I used the macro from the above post vs the bartender trick below.

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Hi there!
For the Moom piece, I’d like to share a small plugin I wrote for StreamDeck.
It lets you switch to a Moom profile by pressing a button on the StreamDeck.
Hope it helps!

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Thanks.

My challenge was that I’m considering the autoswitching profile approach, so zip to Obsidian and I get purple Obsidian buttons. Of course I’ve never in “Moom” so there is no auto switch.