This was a DAMN GOOD AMAZING VIDEO… I just went down a rabbit hole of all things stream deck and zoom and most of them are either all Over the place or BORING AF!! Your video is def a keeper and stands out as one of the best!! I can’t wait to set up the text in chat that you showed! Thank you so much!!
I've been struggling with smoothly using PowerPoint on zoom for the last 2 COVID years and finally you've shown me how to give a professional presentation! THANK YOU!
You are so articulate, that I watched all the way through. I was beginning to wonder if I needed the xl version as I just bought the mk2 with 15 buttons but with the profiles, I don't need to do that now. Great video thank you
oh good! Glad you enjoyed. Honestly, sometimes I wonder about the XL too but with the pages/profile buttons of the small one I still love my lil one over a year later!
Incredibly helpful! I watched the video first, then rewatched and did the entire thing with you and it was smooth. Thank you so very much! May your next meal be delicious🙏
This is so cool. My partner and a couple friend stream on Twitch so I know about Streamdecks, but had no idea it could be so useful for facilitation work! I might just have to get one for the house. Thanks for this guide! I also want to learn to use OBS for facilitation.
Hey Julia! So useful! every time I use it I think, "where was this the first 10 months of virtual facilitating!?" OBS + Stream Deck is definitely the dream. Definitely check out the getting started guide for learning OBS: www.facilitator.cards/blog/getting-started-with-obs-a-short-guide-for-facilitators-1/ - Meg
Great video--learned so much from this, so thank you. Is there a way to use the text function to upload a file to chat (not by sharing a link, by sharing an actual PDF attachment in chat)? Thanks in advance.😀🏳🌈✅
@@FacilitatorCards bummer. That would be amazing (to preload like the chat feature--which is going to be amazing--usigng that text-to-chat feature today for the first time.). Another question....You instructed on how to do the "show chat" and "show participants" windows, but is there another shortcut to closing those windows? Or do we need to mouse click away?
Just bought a Stream Deck and have watched a number of "how to" youtube videos: this is the best one so far. Straight forward and clear. It offers the most info on Stream Deck options and tricks in a really accessible way in one tutorial and it will have you up and running fast in Zoom with your Stream Deck. Thanks, Megan! (One question for you: how can I change my Zoom "backgrounds" in preferences automatically via Stream Deck? There is no hot key for this, so is there another way to do this?)
Hey Frances! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial/walk through! So as far as I know, if it's not in keyboard shortcuts - there isn't a Stream Deck work around - that's the basic rule of thumb. Stream Deck isn't doing anything unique with Zoom, it's more just a second brain that remembers all the little tricks for us!
That said, I *think* I remember reading somewhere for windows users that you can use Stream Deck to do specific clicks on specific spots of your screen, so possibly with a multi-action you could set this up but I don't have a windows computer so I never looked into it (and personally think this sounds more stressful than it would be time saving if you had to do it this way :)
Hey legend! This was great! Thank you! Do you know how I can hit a button to get zoom to share straight to my ipad? without having to clicking share to ipad?
Heya! Glad you enjoyed the video. So with Streamdeck and Zoom the general guidance is that you can program anything into Streamdeck that you can do with keyboard shortcuts (plus cool things like text etc.) There IS a keyboard shortcut to bring up screen share, but as far as I know there isn't a way to specifically have it select the 'share ipad' one specifically. So you could have a button that would bring up that initial screen, but you'd still need to select "share to iPad" with your mouse.
Thanks for the video. It's helped me zet up my Zoom meetings so much easier. Question: Is there a way to attach a document and send through the chat via the Stream Deck?
Hey! So Glad it was helpful. Soooo I don't believe there is. The way that Stream Deck interacts with all the Zoom features is through keyboard shortcuts and I just looked and didn't see an option for a keyboard shortcut for that one.
One alternative option would be to have a document in Google Drive or another cloud service and then share the link to that document in the chat with the text feature rather than upload the document itself to the chat.
@@FacilitatorCards It worked!!!! I uploaded my files onto Google Drive, then linked it via the Multiaction -> Text and it works. Now I can hit a button and a link shows up in Zoom Chat. Thanks so much for the tip...
Just got my stream deck. This was a great overview. I loved the text shortcuts, but, wanted it to put the focus on Zoom, open chat, type the note. So, I created a multi-action, (open zoom, cmd-H, text). Worked great the 1st time, but - the cmd to open chat is also the same as close chat. So, if chat was open - it closed it, and lost the keystrokes... Uggg... Any ideas?
Hey Clark... well my suggestion honestly wouldn't be to create a multi action. I personally click a button on the stream deck to open the chat and then put all the text files on separate buttons to sorta avoid that closing/open problem. I realize that's not ideal because if you're in a different program you're having to focus on zoom, then hit the chat open and then the thing but that's the most reliable way I do it is one button programed to open the chat and then a separate for the text
I was hoping that you would cover how to start the meeting if there is a meeting that you normally join all the time can you type that URL in to just go to that meeting?
You could definitely set up a hotkey on your Streamdeck with the "text" feature that has the URL in it and then if you're in the browser bar you can just press that key for it to type in the text and automatically hit enter!
@@FacilitatorCards thank you … l reviewed your video again right after I sent question and got it to work just in time for my zoom meeting. What a blast 💥. Thank you!
Hey Ken! So short answer, I don't think you can. Long answer, Stream Deck is basically saving and using keyboard short cuts in Zoom to do all the fancy commands that you can set it up to do. So if you're wondering, "How do I get Stream Deck to do X" if there is a keyboard shortcut for it then you can do it! If there isn't, then generally the answer is you can't. The only exception really to this that I've found is sending things in the chat because stream deck has the ability to open up the chat and then you can send things using the text key.
Hi! Great video. I'm running into a problem with the chat shortcut on the streamdeck. It works to pop out the chat but it doesn't hide it after pressing again. I tried the Hotkey and Hotkey Switch. Anyone else running into similar issue? I'm not sure what to do and would appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance!
Hey Ali! Are you on a mac or PC? I just tried it on my mac and it worked fine. Does it work when you just use the hotkey shortcut (i.e. on mac when you hold down shift + command + H and then do that again) does that toggle it open and closed?
@@yomeg895 So I figured something out! As context I had encountered this issue before but gave up yet after watching your vid I went on the mission to find the solution. I reached out to zoom but since I don't have live rep support it was no good. I turned to el gato and within minutes I was on the phone talking to someone troubleshooting. While talking to Patrick I became aware that I had the chat box pop out feature enabled so whenever I hit the shortcut it would pop up (in the middle of my zoom screen) but would not go away unless I Xed it or mouse moved it. The fix came when I integrated the chat box to the main zoom box. There the shortcut worked. Finally, I saw that there's a "hide current chat session" shortcut avail but that's greyed out for me. Hopefully Zoom support can let me know what's up with that. Thanks for responding and again your video is great :)!
Hey Andrew. Yes! So the same way we programed "Mute all" or the button to bring up the chat with hotkeys, there is a hotkey for switch camera. On mac it's Shift + Command + N. On PC just look at the list of keyboard shortcuts in Zoom to find it. Then you'd just use that function on a hotkey button on Streamdeck! LMK if that makes sense!
🎈👍🏻💪😁 Does anyone know what is the shortcut key to start my Zoom Personal Meeting using an Elgato key? I want to be able to program a multi-action key where is will automatically open Zoom and start my Personal meeting?
As far as we can see on Zoom there isn't a keyboard shortcut for this (the start personal meeting part). If you have a PC I think there is a way to program a specific mouse movement and click on Stream Deck but unfortunately we're primarily mac heads so wouldn't be test it but if you figure it out, let us know!
If you create a "Multi Action" button, you can then do the following: Open - Point it to Zoom Delay - I used 2000ms (2 seconds) just to ensure Zoom window was in focus Hotkey - For Mac it's Control+Command+V to start a meeting
Thank you so much for helping out! 😃 Thanks to both of you, I was able to create a multi-action button that would first open the Zoom application and then used hot keys to TAB 11 times and then the ENTER key. I also, as suggested by Walter to add in delays, to ensure it would “click” the button at the right time. It is not a perfect solution, but one that helps me open Zoom, join audio, open the chat box and participants box. I hope Zoom adds a Windows shortcut to Starting a Zoom meeting soon. Thank you so much, and your Mac subscribers for helping me out! Much appreciated!
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My stream deck arrived today and i do not have a clue how to set up this, this tutorial help me a lot to understand the basics. Thank you
This was a DAMN GOOD AMAZING VIDEO… I just went down a rabbit hole of all things stream deck and zoom and most of them are either all
Over the place or BORING AF!! Your video is def a keeper and stands out as one of the best!! I can’t wait to set up the text in chat that you showed! Thank you so much!!
Monique! So glad you liked it we so appreciate the positive feedback. Happy facilitating!
This was the most helpful video on using stream deck with zoom. Thank you!
Great Video. I have had stream deck about 2 years and hardly ever use it. Your video has inspired me. You make it easy. Thanks
You're so welcome!
I've been struggling with smoothly using PowerPoint on zoom for the last 2 COVID years and finally you've shown me how to give a professional presentation! THANK YOU!
Thank you so much. You have covered all the questions I have as if that lecture was done for me. May God bless you Meg!
Thanks so much Marifel! So happy to hear that. Happy zooming! - Meg
Thanks for this! I have just purchased a Streamdeck and uncovering its potential thanks to videos like yours. 🙏👍💯
Glad to hear!
You are so articulate, that I watched all the way through. I was beginning to wonder if I needed the xl version as I just bought the mk2 with 15 buttons but with the profiles, I don't need to do that now. Great video thank you
oh good! Glad you enjoyed. Honestly, sometimes I wonder about the XL too but with the pages/profile buttons of the small one I still love my lil one over a year later!
It worked. I have added new programming to my deck and it works great! Thanks again!
That’s so great Larry! You’re so welcome!
Wow, thank you! 🙏The best tutorial for Stream Deck + Zoom on RUclips. I got it today and will start now 💪🙂
Thanks Sabine so glad you found it helpful and I hope you rock it! 💪
You are the BEST! Thank you. Couldn't find answer to why it wasn't working for me till I came across you. Thanks
You're so welcome Joseph!
Im curious if you wanna share what part were you stuck on before the vid!
Hot key didn’t work because my computer wasn’t granting access. Thank you again.
@@josephmattus3602 OH yeah, that bit is so tricky! Glad you got it working
So thrilled that I discovered your channel!!! Thank you so much for this video. Total GAME CHANGER👏🙌
Great Tutorial very useful information :) thank you very much.
Absolutely!
Really great walk through - thank you!
You're welcome!
Linda let us know if you have any challenges you've run into we're going to do an update vid soon and would love to address them!
This was very helpful! Thank you so much for the detailed information, I was able to get setup super quickly. We appreciate your great work!
You're so welcome! So glad it was helpful and that you got set up quickly :)
Incredibly helpful! I watched the video first, then rewatched and did the entire thing with you and it was smooth.
Thank you so very much!
May your next meal be delicious🙏
Glad it helped!
Love your info, love your humor and love how easy you made this
This is so cool. My partner and a couple friend stream on Twitch so I know about Streamdecks, but had no idea it could be so useful for facilitation work!
I might just have to get one for the house. Thanks for this guide!
I also want to learn to use OBS for facilitation.
Hey Julia! So useful! every time I use it I think, "where was this the first 10 months of virtual facilitating!?" OBS + Stream Deck is definitely the dream.
Definitely check out the getting started guide for learning OBS: www.facilitator.cards/blog/getting-started-with-obs-a-short-guide-for-facilitators-1/
- Meg
Great video, learned a lot. Also as a non native speaker. greets from Germany
Greets! Glad you enjoyed the vid :)
Jens let us know if you have any challenges you've run into we're going to do an update vid soon and would love to address them!
@@FacilitatorCards i am just at the beginning, so i am too New for questions. But i am following you guys now. Hope to learn a lot more
amazing!! - and you are such a lovely person to listen to!
Oh wow thank you Jayahnia
This was a great refresher tutorial to set up my animations before my event today! Thanks👏🏼
Nice! Hope your event went great!
WOW!! Thank you, thank you!! Just what I was looking for. Step by step video. Good job!!!!
You're welcome Luis! I'm getting ready to do another update on this video so let me know if you have any requests for the next one!
Super great and useful video🔥🔥🔥. I just got my stream deck (I was using the app before) and will definitely be preloading text/links to my steam deck
So glad you think so Mario! Let us know if you have any questions as we're planning another video soon on Stream Deck!
Thank you for this friendly instructions.
You're welcome Bart!
Great video! I love the step by step instruction and delivery!
Thanks Bryan!
Great job! My first time watching you. I will try some of the features and check back for more of your videos. Thank you!
Thanks Larry!
Thank you Meg, great instruction video.
You’re welcome!
Brilliant guide - thanks for the work on this...
Absolutely Luke!
Luke let us know if you have any challenges you've run into we're going to do an update vid soon and would love to address them!
Great video--learned so much from this, so thank you. Is there a way to use the text function to upload a file to chat (not by sharing a link, by sharing an actual PDF attachment in chat)? Thanks in advance.😀🏳🌈✅
Hey Mickey, I don't think there is a way to do that - far as I know! 😀🏳🌈✅
Glad you learned so much from the video and thanks for the question!
@@FacilitatorCards bummer. That would be amazing (to preload like the chat feature--which is going to be amazing--usigng that text-to-chat feature today for the first time.). Another question....You instructed on how to do the "show chat" and "show participants" windows, but is there another shortcut to closing those windows? Or do we need to mouse click away?
Absolutly great ideas and use cases for streamdeck. THX a lot!!!
You're so welcome Steffen glad you found it helpful! Stream decks are so cool and we just have to figure out how to put them to work!
Great video
Just bought a Stream Deck and have watched a number of "how to" youtube videos: this is the best one so far. Straight forward and clear. It offers the most info on Stream Deck options and tricks in a really accessible way in one tutorial and it will have you up and running fast in Zoom with your Stream Deck. Thanks, Megan! (One question for you: how can I change my Zoom "backgrounds" in preferences automatically via Stream Deck? There is no hot key for this, so is there another way to do this?)
Hey Frances! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial/walk through! So as far as I know, if it's not in keyboard shortcuts - there isn't a Stream Deck work around - that's the basic rule of thumb. Stream Deck isn't doing anything unique with Zoom, it's more just a second brain that remembers all the little tricks for us!
That said, I *think* I remember reading somewhere for windows users that you can use Stream Deck to do specific clicks on specific spots of your screen, so possibly with a multi-action you could set this up but I don't have a windows computer so I never looked into it (and personally think this sounds more stressful than it would be time saving if you had to do it this way :)
Thank you so much for the video 🤜🤛
Hey legend! This was great! Thank you! Do you know how I can hit a button to get zoom to share straight to my ipad? without having to clicking share to ipad?
Heya! Glad you enjoyed the video. So with Streamdeck and Zoom the general guidance is that you can program anything into Streamdeck that you can do with keyboard shortcuts (plus cool things like text etc.) There IS a keyboard shortcut to bring up screen share, but as far as I know there isn't a way to specifically have it select the 'share ipad' one specifically. So you could have a button that would bring up that initial screen, but you'd still need to select "share to iPad" with your mouse.
Thank you! Great information and tutorial
Thank you, very informative.
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you so much for this. So helpful. I am using this for a virtual gala next week. Need to figure out how it integrates with OBS specifically :)
You're so welcome! Let us know what questions you have about OBS we might be able to answer or even create a demo for that specifically.
Thank you so much !
Hello, Thank You For Explaining Us. We got it. Cool. 👍👊❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
Thanks for the video. It's helped me zet up my Zoom meetings so much easier. Question: Is there a way to attach a document and send through the chat via the Stream Deck?
Hey! So Glad it was helpful. Soooo I don't believe there is. The way that Stream Deck interacts with all the Zoom features is through keyboard shortcuts and I just looked and didn't see an option for a keyboard shortcut for that one.
One alternative option would be to have a document in Google Drive or another cloud service and then share the link to that document in the chat with the text feature rather than upload the document itself to the chat.
@@FacilitatorCards ....and that's why you're the genius here. I'll give that a try. Thanks so much!!!!
@@SkubySnak let us know how it goes!
@@FacilitatorCards It worked!!!! I uploaded my files onto Google Drive, then linked it via the Multiaction -> Text and it works. Now I can hit a button and a link shows up in Zoom Chat. Thanks so much for the tip...
Just got my stream deck. This was a great overview. I loved the text shortcuts, but, wanted it to put the focus on Zoom, open chat, type the note. So, I created a multi-action, (open zoom, cmd-H, text). Worked great the 1st time, but - the cmd to open chat is also the same as close chat. So, if chat was open - it closed it, and lost the keystrokes... Uggg... Any ideas?
Hey Clark... well my suggestion honestly wouldn't be to create a multi action. I personally click a button on the stream deck to open the chat and then put all the text files on separate buttons to sorta avoid that closing/open problem. I realize that's not ideal because if you're in a different program you're having to focus on zoom, then hit the chat open and then the thing but that's the most reliable way I do it is one button programed to open the chat and then a separate for the text
I was hoping that you would cover how to start the meeting if there is a meeting that you normally join all the time can you type that URL in to just go to that meeting?
You could definitely set up a hotkey on your Streamdeck with the "text" feature that has the URL in it and then if you're in the browser bar you can just press that key for it to type in the text and automatically hit enter!
@@FacilitatorCards thank you … l reviewed your video again right after I sent question and got it to work just in time for my zoom meeting. What a blast 💥. Thank you!
@@gospeltalkliveatl2555 Amazing!
just learning stream deck and zoom - question can I put someone back in the waiting room using the stream deck?
Hey Ken! So short answer, I don't think you can. Long answer, Stream Deck is basically saving and using keyboard short cuts in Zoom to do all the fancy commands that you can set it up to do. So if you're wondering, "How do I get Stream Deck to do X" if there is a keyboard shortcut for it then you can do it! If there isn't, then generally the answer is you can't. The only exception really to this that I've found is sending things in the chat because stream deck has the ability to open up the chat and then you can send things using the text key.
Q: How do you access zoom on another pc on the same network that is not on the same pc also on the same network
Hi! Great video. I'm running into a problem with the chat shortcut on the streamdeck. It works to pop out the chat but it doesn't hide it after pressing again. I tried the Hotkey and Hotkey Switch. Anyone else running into similar issue? I'm not sure what to do and would appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance!
Hey Ali! Are you on a mac or PC? I just tried it on my mac and it worked fine. Does it work when you just use the hotkey shortcut (i.e. on mac when you hold down shift + command + H and then do that again) does that toggle it open and closed?
@@yomeg895 So I figured something out! As context I had encountered this issue before but gave up yet after watching your vid I went on the mission to find the solution. I reached out to zoom but since I don't have live rep support it was no good. I turned to el gato and within minutes I was on the phone talking to someone troubleshooting. While talking to Patrick I became aware that I had the chat box pop out feature enabled so whenever I hit the shortcut it would pop up (in the middle of my zoom screen) but would not go away unless I Xed it or mouse moved it. The fix came when I integrated the chat box to the main zoom box. There the shortcut worked. Finally, I saw that there's a "hide current chat session" shortcut avail but that's greyed out for me. Hopefully Zoom support can let me know what's up with that. Thanks for responding and again your video is great :)!
Can one stream deck be used on multiple computers?
Not at the same time but I do believe you can set up a stream deck to be used on multiple computers.
can stream deck switch multiple cameras inside zoom.? If so how?
Hey Andrew. Yes! So the same way we programed "Mute all" or the button to bring up the chat with hotkeys, there is a hotkey for switch camera. On mac it's Shift + Command + N. On PC just look at the list of keyboard shortcuts in Zoom to find it. Then you'd just use that function on a hotkey button on Streamdeck! LMK if that makes sense!
🎈👍🏻💪😁
Does anyone know what is the shortcut key to start my Zoom Personal Meeting using an Elgato key?
I want to be able to program a multi-action key where is will automatically open Zoom and start my Personal meeting?
As far as we can see on Zoom there isn't a keyboard shortcut for this (the start personal meeting part). If you have a PC I think there is a way to program a specific mouse movement and click on Stream Deck but unfortunately we're primarily mac heads so wouldn't be test it but if you figure it out, let us know!
If you create a "Multi Action" button, you can then do the following:
Open - Point it to Zoom
Delay - I used 2000ms (2 seconds) just to ensure Zoom window was in focus
Hotkey - For Mac it's Control+Command+V to start a meeting
Thank you so much for helping out! 😃
Thanks to both of you, I was able to create a multi-action button that would first open the Zoom application and then used hot keys to TAB 11 times and then the ENTER key. I also, as suggested by Walter to add in delays, to ensure it would “click” the button at the right time.
It is not a perfect solution, but one that helps me open Zoom, join audio, open the chat box and participants box.
I hope Zoom adds a Windows shortcut to Starting a Zoom meeting soon.
Thank you so much, and your Mac subscribers for helping me out! Much appreciated!
Ll
excellent tutorial ! many thanks! now i can charge more money!