 In this video, I'm going to be talking about the new Discord plugin for Stream Deck. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now the new foot pedals that were released from Elgato yesterday, I did a video all about those, leave in the top corner, was sort of overshadowed another announcement, which was that in the update for the Stream Deck software that came out to add in the compatibility for the foot pedal, they also added in the new Discord plugin created by Elgato themselves. So it's always good when Elgato creates a custom plugin because you know it's obviously going to have good integration there and hopefully longevity going forward as well. So it is a bit light on the actions at the moment, but as I say, hopefully being there by Elgato, hopefully they have some plans to build this out going forward. So let's have a look first of all at how to get it, shall we? So heading over to the Stream Deck app, all you need to do is go into... Well, first of all, let's update, shall we? Go into Preferences, and if you go into your General section, then just click on here for Check for Updates. When you do that, you should see a little thing pop up that says an update is available. In my case, it's already done. But basically what you want is 5.2. So probably if you haven't updated recently, then you might have 5.1 or something previously. So you can always check for updates. It doesn't necessarily auto update, so definitely do that. You may also notice, I've just selected my Stream Deck mobile, but if I come into my Excel, you'll also see the firmware here. Now, if there is no update available, there is no button to check for firmware. But what you may notice as of yesterday is that you may notice that there is a firmware update available for the Stream Deck as well, which was sort of handed hand with that software update. So you may just need to click down here to the button that you can't see, because it's not on here at the moment. But just check for that firmware version and there will be an update button if a new version is available. So that's how to basically get the update for the software. So let's look now at how to add in the Discord plugin itself. So there we're going to come up to the Stream Deck store, which is accessible by this little icon just up in the top corner here. I'm going to click on that and then we want to come over to the right-hand side. And by the way, if you've never been to this splash screen before, there's some good little articles, things like that, about different things. So a starter's guide for Stream Deck and here's some more information about the pedal. But you want to come over onto the left, whoopsie daisy, just cutting it off, and come over to the plugins. This is the way that we always install plugins, but I do think it's worth mentioning every time in case anybody new to Stream Deck is seeing this. Then you want to just type in the search box Discord. Now here what you'll see is there are actually four results, but there is only one that is the official Discord plugin by Algato, and you can see there it says by Algato. These other ones are by actually the same third-party developer, and they do different things. I don't actually use them, so there's one of them here is a Discord member status. So you can actually, if there are particular members in Discord that you follow, you're close friends with, and you want to literally have a status on your Stream Deck showing you whether they're online or offline, then you can use this plugin for that. If you want to have a thing to show you the active member count, so if you've got a particular server that you're in and you want to see how many people are on that server at any given time, then that is the one for you. And then there's also this one that allows you to send basically predefined messages to different people. Again, I don't use all of these. All I'm interested in at the moment is the key one for Discord from Algato. So what you want to do is just come here and click on Install. If it is already installed, you can uninstall it. That, by the way, is just how you always install it. Uninstall plugins as well. So if you've got one that you've tried out that you don't like, the way to get rid of it is you can come over here and uninstall it. So once it is installed, well, what do you get? Well, let's have a little look, shall we, at the Discord plugin. So you will find it over on the right-hand side in your list of plugins. Then it will usually just add it to the bottom. You can, by the way, just in case you weren't aware, click on this little icon just up at the top. And if you click on that, then you will be able to reorganize these. So if you do ever want to move things around, maybe you want the Discord one at the top or the bottom or wherever you want it, you can just drag it around to that place. And then click Done. So here are the different actions we've got. We've got Mute, which is when you're on a Discord voice channel, then this is to toggle the Mute on and off. There is also Defn, if you're not familiar with Discord. Defn, basically, as well as muting your mic, it also mutes the sound from the other people on the channel as well, in the voice channel. So that just means that basically if you want to take a break, but you're still connected and you don't want to hear anything and you don't want them to hear you, then Defn is the one that you would press. I'm just going to skip over these next two. We've also got Push to Talk. So much the same as in Zoom. You can activate the space bar to basically push to talk. So if you're on Mute, you press that button. It's going to allow you to speak and be heard. And then the bottom one here is Push to Mute. So maybe you want to actually be on all the time, but then you're going to cough or something like that and you want to just temporarily mute yourself. That one then is the opposite. So it's Push to Mute. The next two that we've got, or these middle two, are basically to open a specific voice channel. Now, the way that this works is when you add it in, it's going to basically allow you to choose your particular server and then also the voice channel. So in this server, there are a number of different voice channels. If I come here and change to my Take One Tech channel, you can see how it's basically taking the icon of the server itself rather, not the channel. And then here we've got the voice channel. There is only one in there, so I can just pick that from the dropdown. Really neat integration. There's no sort of setup required from this point of view. Having said that, there is a little bit of setup. I'll come to that in a moment to have just realized. What you'll also notice is that it does try to just put the name of the channel over the top of the logo. So that might be a little bit tricky to see. So what you may want to do is come down to here and just take that off. So now it's taken the little title off that. Obviously, if you're adding multiple ones in, then it could be difficult to read. You may want to design your own custom icon so that you've got space for the text as well as the logo for the channel or however you want to display that. The other one that we've got here is text channel. So just the same way as we use that to open up a voice channel, this one opens up a text channel. It works in exactly the same way. It gives us a list of all of our servers, and we can choose which one we want from there. And then you can choose the text channel that you want from there as well. Again, it's putting the name over the top of the logo of the channel. So for clarity, you may want to do something to decipher between which ones are which. And I'll be creating some custom icons for my various different ones that I want to have linked to from my stream deck. But that is it really. That is the six actions that are available as part of the Discord plugin. Really pleased that they've made this first step. Looking forward to them doing a lot more. I should just point out though as well in terms of things to do to setup. When you do go to set it up, you will actually be prompted in Discord the first time you try and use one of these things. If you've got Discord open and you try and use any one of these actions, it will basically pop up this little message in Discord itself saying that stream deck would like to have permission to do a few things. And so you just need to make sure you go and approve that. But apart from that, that is all that is required for setup. In terms of other things to do on stream deck for Discord, there are a whole load of keyboard shortcuts available for Discord. So I'll leave a link to those in the description. It would be great, wouldn't it, if a YouTube creator was to create a whole set of custom icons programmed to those shortcuts. So I'll be working on that. And I'll post another video when they're done because it would be nice to have a much deeper integration with Discord. And until this plug-in is further developed, then we can certainly do that with just using the keyboard shortcuts directly, or I'll probably do it with keyboard maestro so that I can control everything in the background even if it isn't the front-most application. I'll leave some more of my stream deck videos over on the right-hand side. So don't go anywhere. More great content coming up.