Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by codetrotter on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:42AM (#34273212)

> Previously I had a keyboard with a lot of macro keys […] Now I'm using the stream deck for much more than what my keyboard offered.

Would like to hear more details about what you and OP and others use the stream deck for. I’m trying to understand what it can do that a regular keyboard plus macros couldn’t.

I guess convenience is also a big part of it.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by PebblesHD on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:05AM (#34273395)

It’s really just a dynamic macro pad in a really polished overall product platform. No more guessing what blank button does what.

The killer feature for me is that it can also be an output device with the right tweaks, so for my use case in triggering long running jobs, the icon on the appropriate button updates to indicate the job is in progress and then again when it completes.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by theshrike79 on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:56PM (#34282565)

If it detects I have Zoom running all the relevant Zoom buttons appear, mute mic & camera on/off being the ones I use most.

For regular use it talks to Apple Music and shows me next/prev/play buttons, with the current album cover as the play button.

I can use it to adjust my Philips Hue lights or set Home Assistant variables directly.

For work I have the most used intranet sites as buttons (Jira, Confluence, version control, etc).

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