Hi,

Has anyone tried using an Elgato Stream Deck as a USB 'pendant'/hand control?

I currently use a separate USB numeric keypad at the machine (rather than a full keyboard), but it has limited keys and I need to be careful to disable the keyboard plugin/driver if I want to use the main keyboard for non mach4 tasks while a job is running.

I've looked that the HID Macros driver, and the mach4 keyboard plugin/driver takes full control of keyboard input so that's no good. I was looking at using that as it can take keys from a specific USB device, so I could (if it worked as I'd hoped) program just the num pad to do mach4 commands, and the normal keyboard would not interfere.

The Stream Deck might be good (re-programmable buttons with displays), BUT I'm worried it will suffer the same fate as HID Macros and be ignored by mach4.

Cheers,

Michael.

Quick follow up, tried the elgato stream deck driver with their mobile app version of the device (free for a month), and it worked fine with mach4. So it's looking like a viable option for a controller for mach4.
Basically what I'm trying to do is control mach4 for my most common use cases without having to use a mouse, hence the usb num pad (existing solution).