Elegate Stream Deck Integration for Linux

holgerd · January 8, 2025, 8:27pm

I have just finished a beta version of a plugin for Stream Controller to integrate some Mixbus / Ardour functionality for Elegato Streamdeck under Linux.

You can find details of the plugin here.

If you have any wishes on what to add, feel free to post it!

Holger

seablade · January 8, 2025, 9:17pm

Not at all complaining or trying to down, but curious, why this instead of Bitfocus Companion and sending OSC?

Seablade

holgerd · January 8, 2025, 9:26pm

Simply because I was not aware of that until now.
Do you have experience with that? Is it open source? I can not download before registering…

seablade · January 8, 2025, 9:34pm

I believe Companion is under the MIT license.

github.com

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It is commonly used for controlling professional AV equipment in my world these days, as in I am starting to consider this a standard spec for any system I design as it is relatively simple to make it do complex things easily for operators that are less trained, but even for people that are more trained it can be relatively powerful.

I have been relatively pleased working with it. Connections are submitted by users for a lot of it, and there is a commercial effort behind it now, so at the very least it should be relatively easy to write a plugin for it to control Ardour, but even just generic OSC transmitters would work as well.

  Seablade

holgerd · January 8, 2025, 9:49pm

OK, I will give it a try. But not tonight😉

seablade · January 8, 2025, 10:20pm

I should mention it is also a bit nice that I just built an enclosure with a RPi, PoE Hat, and a Streamdeck for Companion so that literally I can plug it in anywhere there is PoE (Also have USB for power in case there isn’t) and control most htings on the network.

Seablade

holgerd · January 9, 2025, 3:48pm

@seablade Played araound a littlebit with the companion. There are really a bunch of possibilities. However it feels like configuration needs as much time as createing the plugin for Streamcontroller

Would you mind sharing your configuration?
Are you successful in getting feedback from Ardour / Mixbus?
Are you able to query Ardour at the start of of the comanion?

Holger

seablade · January 9, 2025, 5:18pm

I actually don’t have a configuration for Ardour, I have to many of the keyboard shortcuts memorized so I haven’t really needed it. It was just my first thoguht on seeing yours, and was curious why you chose to do one vs the other. The big advantage to Companion in this case is being able to control not just Ardour but anything that is networked, so if you have other pieces you want to control at the same time, you could, and I didn’t notice anything that I didn’t feel like I couldn’t get working in Bitfocus yet in your description, but as you mentioned feedback would probably mean writing a plugin for Companion as well.

 Seablade