• What does the Elgato Control Center do?

    Single control panel in the Windows System Tray that:

    1. Controls Brightness
    2. Controls Colour Temperature
    3. Allows you to rename your lights
    4. Allows you to synchronise the controls (turn one light on and they both go on, raise the brightness of one and it raises both to the same brightness, etc)

    It is not necessary... when push comes to shove and I'm on Linux, I have the Elgato Control Center app installed on my Android phone and that offers all of the above too. But it is convenient in the system tray.

  • Sorry for all the questions but when you're on linux does the Stream Deck remember settings you've set up using your phone app? Or does the Stream Deck no longer control the Key Lights when you're on Linux?

  • Sorry for all the questions but when you're on linux does the Stream Deck remember settings you've set up using your phone app? Or does the Stream Deck no longer control the Key Lights when you're on Linux?

    Stream Deck relies on an app installed in Windows / Mac. The configuration of which buttons are where depends on which computer it is plugged into (it's a USB device) as it reads the config from that.

    For my sanity I use the same layout on Windows and Mac.

    If I adjust things via Hue, or the Control Center... then Stream Deck reflects this within a second. It's essentially polling state constantly or registered for notifications depending on what you're controlling with it. So it reflects the state all the time and if I use my phone to flick a light then the Stream Deck shows this.

    Just consider the Stream Deck as a customisable set of buttons that is connectable as a USB device. The buttons have displays in them, and this can show you whatever you want and can do so dynamically according to state.

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