 If you use a Bluetooth presentation remote and you want to use it with another application, maybe the key mappings don't quite work with whatever it is you want to use it for, I'm gonna show you how you can quite easily remap those keys for the Mac in this video. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And yeah, so in this video, we're talking about these little presentation remotes. They are great for obviously doing presentations with them, things like that. But you may find cases where you want to use it with some software where the keys for some reason don't work. And that is the key to thinking about this, is it is just a tiny little keyboard, really. Each one of these keys, these buttons represents a keystroke. And the default mapping for these presentation remotes is that the forwards and backwards arrows relate to the page up and page down buttons on your keyboard. So when you're in Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple's keynote, then if you press the page up and down button on your keyboard, it will advance or go to the previous slide. And so that's all you're basically doing with this. I know you can also use the arrow keys as well on the keyboard to move between slides in those applications. But that is the specific keystrokes that are being simulated by these little remotes. Now, this whole video is being made because the question was asked in the Ecamm Live Facebook group by Aaron LeBauer. Hope I pronounced that right. And what he was asking was if you're using a presentation PDF, for example, in Ecamm Live, how can you get this to control the slides or the PDF pages in Ecamm Live? Now I did a whole video about how you can use this with Ecamm Live, and I'll leave a link, obviously, to that up in the top corner. But the way that I was suggesting using it in there was just simply to advance between different scenes and to change scenes in Ecamm Live. And I suppose I should step back a bit. If you're not familiar with Ecamm Live, it is a live video production environment for either recording videos or going live out to the world through live streaming. And it's what I use to make all of these videos. And it's a great application for the Mac and I can highly recommend it. If you want a free trial, go to takeonetech.io slash ecamm and you'll be able to try it all out there. But it is a really wonderful piece of software. And incidentally, I should also mention, if you are using Ecamm already and aren't familiar with the Ecamm Live Facebook group that I just mentioned, where this question was asked, then go to facebook.com slash groups slash Ecamm and there you'll be able to join a community full of wonderful people, just like you doing great things with their Ecamm Live software. So highly recommend that. But anyway, just coming back to the question, instead of going off on several different tangents, I've gone on so many tangents, I've come right back around to where I was. So let me just show you what we're talking about. And to do that, I'm going to go into demo mode on Ecamm Live so that you can see my whole screen now. Just giving it a little bit of a hint, actually one thing that I do want to mention before I go on to the explanation about this is if you do want to advance PDF slides in Ecamm Live, then you can go into the, and you're using Stream Deck, then it is actually built in as one of the Ecamm Live controls in there. So just go to Ecamm Live in the Stream Deck and come down here, you'll see there is a key command here for previous PDF page and next PDF page. So you can just add those in as buttons to your Stream Deck as well. But I'm getting a little bit ahead because what I wanted to show you was how you can actually add PDFs into Ecamm Live. So if I come over to here, I've created a new blank scene. And then what I'm going to do is I've got a PDF on my desktop. And if I just drag any PDF onto the window there, then that sort of embeds it into the scene. And then what you can do is you can use the left and right arrows to scroll through that PDF. So I can just use left and right to scroll through the PDF like that. Now, if I was to press the little buttons on my remote, let me come back to this scene so you can see. If I press the buttons on this remote, then what that will do is actually just move down through the scenes. So currently we're on this main scene, my next scene is a screen sharing scene. So if I just click on the little button like that, then you can see it just advances to the next scene. And if I come to my PDF that I've just created, this new scene, and I press the little button, then you can see it just changes the scene again. It doesn't actually move the pages of the PDF. So that is because, as I say, we are currently mapped to page up and page down in Ecamm Live moves between scenes. Whereas what we want is the left and right arrows because that is what changes the pages of the PDF. So the way that we do that is we're going to use an application. This isn't a free application, but I highly recommend it. I'm going to be doing a whole series of videos all about this app because it is one of my basically power apps that I use. One of the three core apps that is at the center of a lot of the sort of automation I do that's sort of third party. There is also, let me say there's five then. Automator by Apple, Apple Script by Apple. Soon to be shortcuts actually. So the six shortcuts, I use that on iOS, but that's coming to the Mac as well. But the three that I would say that I use quite heavily are Keyboard Maestro, which is this one I'm going to tell you. Also, I'm forgetting now, I've confused myself by adding three more to the list. Text, Expander and also Hazel. So I'll be doing videos about all of these, but I've just already mentioned the app, haven't I? It is worth my screen sharing on. This one, it's Keyboard Maestro. So I'll leave a link obviously down in the description. But if you go to keyboardmaestro.com that's where you can get it. And the cost of it is, let me just double check. I should have done this in advance, shouldn't I? Let me just go to buy now and I will see how much it is. $36 and it's money well spent when you look at all the different things that you can do from it. And there you go, it's from Stairways Software. But as I say, I'll leave a link in the description. There is a free trial of it, so you can have a look at that. And as I say, I'll be doing a whole series of videos all about it. So you'll be able to be able to judge for yourself how useful it is. It does actually pair really nicely with Stream Deck because you can set up all sorts of different macros in it and then you can link those all to Stream Deck. But I'm doing a lot of talking without having actually shown it to you, haven't I? So let's get on with that. Right, so here is the app. And I should just mention, once you've downloaded it, you will have to go through that process of enabling it in system preferences. So that's the usual thing where it'll say, take you through to the privacy section of system preferences and you'll need to unlock that with your password and then it will just ask you to go make sure you've given it access to because it is basically gonna take control of things like keyboard shortcuts and things like that. So that's just something to be aware of during the installation process. But once you've got it up, it's basically a way for you to program all sorts of different macros or keystrokes or things like that that are system-wide. And there's too many things to actually cover exactly what it can do all in one little demo. So as I say, I will be making a whole series of videos all about keyboard maestro and how I use it and some of the nice little tricks that you can use. But this sort of thing that we're gonna talk about now, this remapping of keystrokes, is something that's really useful and comes in handy in lots of different situations. But let's give you the example of the one that we're looking at. So down here on the left-hand side, you've got different groups of macros and things that you've programmed. So I have a lot of different sort of groupings for the macros that I've got. Once you're in a particular folder, you'll see all of the macros that you've programmed for that particular group in the list there. And then you'll also see something related to, so this is actually the name and things like that for the particular group that you're looking at. But let's go through the process. So let me call this one, I'm gonna call this one Ecamm demo. Ecamm demo, so there we go. We've given it a name. Now we want this to work, the things that we add in here, we want them to work just in Ecamm Live because we're gonna reprogram the keys for this little presentation remote for when you're using Ecamm Live, but we don't want them to actually affect when you're in other applications. So presumably when you're using PowerPoint or Microsoft Keynote, you still want these to work as intended. So we only want to affect Ecamm Live. So this group of applications here or this group of macros that we're gonna create, in fact there's only gonna be two in there, is for Ecamm Live. So we've want to have it enabled so that yes, it will be active and working. Now here you can select whether you want it to work in all applications or a specific application. So if I come down here and say, available in these applications, so you could say available in basically all except the specific applications available when these applications are running. So you can see we've got these different options. Well, we're just wanting to use it in these applications and then you get to add in all the applications that you want it to work in. So now we've got this little button and so we click here, go to Ecamm Live. So now basically this group is gonna work in Ecamm Live. You can also select if it's gonna work in certain windows or depending on what you're doing, but for us we'll just have available in all windows because it's just gonna be whenever the window is active basically and is it always activated or activated for one action when, so there's all different ways that you can define these. So, but fortunately, we're just keeping things simple at the moment. So I won't dig into all of these different options for this case. So we want it to basically this group of macros, these two macros for forwards and backwards to work in Ecamm Live. Now you can come down here to where it says macros and we're going to add in our first one and this we're gonna call this one PDF forward. So call it what you want but PDF page forward. Now, so there we can say triggered by any of the following when Ecamm Live is at the front. So we're gonna add a trigger in. Now the way you can add triggers is there are some sort of simple shortcuts to triggers built in but I could go into this little plus button at the bottom and that would bring up a whole window of triggers and there are lots of different categories of different types of triggers and things like that and for each one of these little groups there's all things related to files, browser control and so on but if I get all actions you can see different things that we can do but as I say, they are also listed as little shortcuts. So new trigger and it's the first one actually, hot key trigger. So that is gonna be triggered when a key is pressed basically and that is the one that we want in this case but as you can see there's lots of different things like gesture triggers, things like that, application triggers, clipboard, so on and so forth but we just want this key, hot key trigger and so now it's asking us for the hot key. Now this is the PDF forward button that we want to program and as I mentioned, the left and right arrows are basically page up and page down. So what we can do is we can just, the box is already highlighted so page down would be the forward. So if I click that, page down and then down here we don't want this by script and it says we'll execute the following action. So what action do we want it to do? Well we actually want it to basically just simulate the keystroke right arrow. So if I click on new action and then we can choose it from there but we can also, in fact, let me come down here and do type a keystroke, there we go and I can drag that across. So I've just taken the type a keystroke and dragged it across and then the keystroke that we want is if you click the little down arrow and then we say what do we want? We want the right arrow. So now basically what that's saying is if we just run through this sort of little logic again we've called this PDF forward. It's only gonna work in Ecamm Live and when the hotkey page down is pressed it is gonna simulate the keystroke of right arrow. Okay, so that is actually done now. What we're gonna do now is just quickly do that again for PDF previous like that. And then as I said before we just come to new hotkey trigger. This one now is gonna be the page up key and we want a new action is type a keystroke and this time we want the left arrow. So now we've got our two keys that have been mapped and we'll close that down and that is it but don't take my word for it. Let me actually just demonstrate this for a moment. So if I come out of here or rather come into my demo mode and then I'll come back to that screen that we had with our PDF, which was this one. So now with a bit of luck, in fact, what I need to do let me just quickly just so that you can see. Well, I just pause there for a moment to actually add an image into this scene so that you could see what I was doing with my little clicker in my presentation remote. So now what you'll notice is as I press these keys then it does actually move the pages of the PDF which was the question that was asked. And that is how that you remap your keystrokes from your presentation remote using keyboard maestro. If you found this useful then don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so that you get alerted the moment that I make any new videos. And as I say, I will be making a whole series of videos all about keyboard maestro. And if you think that keyboard maestro is powerful wait until you can pair it with Stream Deck as well. So I'll be doing a whole series about integrating it with Stream Deck as well. So that's all for this video but don't go anywhere because as always there's more great videos coming up next. When I've done the playlist by the way I'll add the playlist to the bottom for my keyboard maestro. Have a great day everyone.