Ed75 Posted November 24, 2021 Report Share Posted November 24, 2021 Started fiddling with an Elgato Stream deck. A nice 15-illuminated-button pageable box. It IS possible to use it with FLX S, You need to connect a PC/laptop running windows 10 and Zeros monitor. Connect the Streamdeck to your PC/laptop, and configure some keys. I chose to configure the "missing" handy keys on a FLX S . e.g. arrows, home, highlite, a fast @ , a thru , and so on. Choose yourself. It is only possible to use the standard keyboard shortcuts. Half of them are on the desk itself anyway, the other half I chose to put on the streamdeck now. Saves learning them by heart, saves using the Z-key, saves use of shift and ctrl buttons and/or putting stickers on your keyboard keys. Nice experiment, and it works fine. Only the fact you need a PC/laptop running next to your FLX S is a bit of overkill. And for the about 15 buttons you are probably going to use, a bit of an investment. I own the thing anyway, mainly for use with Qlab. For fullsize FLX it should be possible to make a MIDi-controller out of it. via the "Companion"-program which works together with the Elgato software. Though I think it needs some more type of whizzkid than I am. As far as I know, companion already has some ready 'personalities' for some existing other brand lighting desks. 1 Quote Freelance Theatre Lighting designer/operator/allround technician/tech production/rental . Netherlands. FLX, FLX S48 2U, Solution, 13" multitouch monitor, 15" portable multitouch monitor, 11.4" lenovo thinkpad touch, network hub with wifi, powered usb hub, keyboard, trackball. 2x Elgato Streamdeck, nodes: showtec 2-3 and Lightshark node-4 2x 19" networkswitch, IOS zeros remote. 22" Iiyama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Z88 Posted November 24, 2021 Report Share Posted November 24, 2021 Hi Ed, Thanks for sharing this! I have looked into the Stream Deck but haven't had a play with one myself. Sounds like a great idea. Feel free to post some pictures of your set up here if you'd like to. Edward Quote Edward Smith Product Specialist Email Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed75 Posted November 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2021 Had to sort out first some image related things. Hope it works. The whole setup is in progress......... nearly there. Note: the keys are backlighted. The way I created the buttons : 2 Quote Freelance Theatre Lighting designer/operator/allround technician/tech production/rental . Netherlands. FLX, FLX S48 2U, Solution, 13" multitouch monitor, 15" portable multitouch monitor, 11.4" lenovo thinkpad touch, network hub with wifi, powered usb hub, keyboard, trackball. 2x Elgato Streamdeck, nodes: showtec 2-3 and Lightshark node-4 2x 19" networkswitch, IOS zeros remote. 22" Iiyama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed75 Posted November 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 Okay. Change of plans. . Got myself a second streamdeck (ow yeah black friday) and got my hands on a small 360deg. foldable touchscreen windows laptop. (11,4", on the left) The idea was to get rid of use of the keyboard for 99% of the time. If I still needed it only for the numbers felt a bit stupid. The right screen is a multitouch 13" directly into the desk. (had it already in use) In the 19" rack underneath there is a keyboard drawer with usb keyboard and usb trackball. (out of jail ticket) And a wireless hub. (all already in use too) Till now I used the space where the laptop is for an Ipad. Laptop of course plugged into the hub. (no use of wifi during a show) The reason I have chosen 2 small streamdecks is: I already had one, and the XL is too big to fit nicely. 2 Quote Freelance Theatre Lighting designer/operator/allround technician/tech production/rental . Netherlands. FLX, FLX S48 2U, Solution, 13" multitouch monitor, 15" portable multitouch monitor, 11.4" lenovo thinkpad touch, network hub with wifi, powered usb hub, keyboard, trackball. 2x Elgato Streamdeck, nodes: showtec 2-3 and Lightshark node-4 2x 19" networkswitch, IOS zeros remote. 22" Iiyama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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