That’s no big deal for me-I’m just a hobbyist. Crashes are rarer when I haven’t recently reconfigured the device, but sometimes I simply hit a button to launch a program or whatever and the Stream Deck software just dies. While recording the video above, we had the Stream Deck software crash at least four or five times, and in home use it’s been just as frequent. Now I can stare at my colleague Brad Chacos every day.Įxcept it crashes all the time. You drag and drop everything, holding an item over an item creates a sub-folder, and dragging in any old JPEG gives you custom icons. As far as usability goes, it’s pretty foolproof. I spoke above at how I love the Stream Deck software, and I do. A cable sticking out the side would make way more sense, as would optional cable routing on the rear of the unit (like you see on well-planned keyboards).Īnd then there’s the software. It hasn’t yet, but the design is terrible and I can’t believe something so simple wasn’t caught before production. The Stream Deck’s USB cable is neither detachable nor particularly sturdy, and for some reason putting it in the stand leaves the cable hanging in the air above, a delicate little thing that I’m convinced will break in an instant. PCs are more powerful, but also more complicated, setting up various scenes and trying to manage them on the fly from the same machine you’re already using to stream. I’ve long envied consoles for how easy they’ve made the streaming process-press a button and you’re done. Add more time if you want to customize the art-Elgato has a web portal where you can create custom 72 x 72-pixel icons for each button, if you (for instance) want to make a collage of Nicolas Cage’s best faces or something.īut at the end you’re left with an incredibly powerful switcher, or at least an incredibly elegant one. Setting up the Stream Deck can be a bit of a hassle, probably requiring 45 minutes or an hour to dig through all the options and configure it just so. And if you need to close a game mid-stream and want to full-screen your webcam or do any other fancy scene-switching? Yeah, you can program buttons for that too.
Hell, have another button announce to your Twitter followers that a stream is starting. Want to start streaming? Hit another and send a stream direct to Twitch. Want to launch OBS? Program a button to launch OBS. With software tie-ins to Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), Twitch, Twitter, and more, you can manage an entire stream without ever Alt-Tabbing or pulling focus away from a game. Instead, each is a miniature OLED display. They could be boring ol’ buttons like any other video switcher, but no. The Stream Deck consists of 15 buttons, arranged in 3 rows of 5. Oh, and the whole unit is about the size of a pack of index cards.
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