 Streamdeck software update version 5.1 has been released and I'm gonna tell you about it in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec and in this video we're talking about the latest version of the Streamdeck software, which was literally just released a few hours ago, just before I went to bed in fact. And it's funny because of the feature that's been added to it, because there aren't many, there's only two really. The feature that has been added is something that was literally just about to do myself anyway, using some sort of profile hack. I'll tell you about that in a moment. And so it came just in time for me. But let me tell you about the other features first, but before I do that actually, let me tell you how to actually get it. So I'll come over to my screen sharing for the moment. Here is the Streamdeck software. You want to click on the little cogwheel just up at the top to bring up your preferences. Now in your preferences, you've got three tabs, profiles, accounts and general. Before you do anything and update, it's always a good idea just to back up your profiles. So if you come over to the profiles here and then you've got this little down arrow here just at the very bottom. So if you click on that and then you've got the option to back up all and either create a backup or restore from a backup. So incidentally, if anything does go wrong, this is where you restore it as well. So just click on there and create the backup and it'll back up every single profile that you've got in there and it will just be all in one single package, one file for your backup. It's always a good idea to get in the habit of doing this anyway, whether or not you've got a stream deck software update to do. Just do it incrementally as you're going along. And especially if you've made big changes to your profiles and things like that, it's always a good habit to get into just to make sure if anything goes wrong, you can always get back to where you were. But anyway, that is the backup. Let's come back to the general tab. And in here, it tells you the software version, but also the device you're on and the firmware version. So when you click up here, check for updates, this button is always there. So you can always check for updates. When you click on this, presumably, if at the moment you haven't updated, this will be a five dot zero dot something. So here is what mine looked like just before I updated. The check for updates button is there. And so when you click on it, obviously, you'll be prompted to update. Just go through the update. There's nothing particularly special about that. It will just all happen automatically and stream deck will reboot. But then what you want to do is you want to come back into this window then because what you'll notice is that a firmware update button appears after you have done the update. So this check for updates is always there. You can always click on it to see if there's an update. But the update firmware button only appears when there is actually a firmware update available. So there must be something that they've done in relation to five point one that has triggered this firmware update. So make sure you do go and update that. The software version is gonna be sort of global no matter how many stream decks you've got. If you are lucky enough to have one, more than one. So maybe two or three or my dream 10 all the way along in front of me. Then you would just go and make sure that you do update the firmware on each individual device. So in that case, the software update would be fine. Just do that once. But then just go through your different devices here and just update the firmware on all of them or at least check to see if it needs to be updated. So that is how you update the software. So let's come on to the actual new features now and I'll start with, there's only really two and I'll start with the most boring one. And that is that you can now whitelist your, the places where you're using Stream Deck music. If you are using their built-in music and sound effects. So just in case you were not aware or missed the news. In since Stream Deck 5.0, there has been the music store and also the sound effects store as well. And there you can download little sound effects, stingers and things like that. And then in the music, then there is music in there. Personally, I don't actually use this music so much. I've got an epidemic sound subscription. So that is what I use for all of my music. But you never know, you might get lucky and find something good in there. And if you do, then it is free to use. It's totally copyright free. You can use it in any platform. However, the pieces of music have been created by outside people, they haven't all been made by the people at Stream Deck or El Gato. And so there have been cases, apparently, I haven't been aware of this, but there have been cases where there have been like copyright notices against YouTube channels where they've been using this. It happens a lot that you get a copyright notice and then you just have to, especially if you use, for example, my experience of this is using Adobe stock. You get an epidemic sound music library as part of that. But the thing is you have to go and actually manually every time go and add in the details of the license and so on. So what was happening for some users of Stream Deck, where they were using this music is they would get flagged as there'd been a copyright claim against their channel. And then they'd have to go in and just basically say, no, I'm a Stream Deck user and there was a whole process to it, apparently. Again, I don't know how many people have been affected by this, but basically now what they've added in, which is very sensible, is a way to basically whitelist your channels within Stream Deck. So what you do for that is you come into your preferences, again, so clicking on the little cog wheel at the top, and then you come into accounts. And basically you just come and add in all of your different accounts here. So you can just click on the little plus icon. What's Daisy? My promos has gone off. There we go. You click on the little plus icon and you can add in a Streamlabs Twitch, Twitter or YouTube account. And by the way, you can add multiple ones in. So if you are using it in multiple locations, then you can add that in here. That's one thing about Epidemic Sound, by the way, is the monthly license that you get for that or that you pay for with Epidemic Sound. You get to add in basically one user account per platform. So you can have your Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Instagram or wherever you're gonna be using the music, but it is only one account per subscription. If you want to add on extra YouTube accounts or use the Epidemic Music somewhere else, you basically have to add on an extra license. You can do it all within the same account, but you still have to pay for the extra license. So here what it's allowing you to do is basically whitelist anywhere where you're using the Stream Deck Music Library. So what I'll do is I'll leave a link to the page on the Elgato website where it talks about the copyright and just to be sure that it is all free to use and you can use it wherever. And this just explains the process and what to do if you do ever get a strike against you. Not a strike, I keep saying strike. It's a copyright claim. It's only a strike if you're found to genuinely be in breach. So there we go. And you won't be with Stream Deck. So that is basically the boring part of the software update, but now on to the feature that I was literally just about to emulate yesterday with a profiles hack. And that is the eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that we've now got pages down at the bottom. So this is on a profile by profile basis. Incidentally, I did a video a while back about how I use profiles and why personally I feel that profiles are better than folders. So I'll leave a link to that up in the top corner. And basically this just works in with that, that it works best this new pages feature if you are using profiles rather than folders. And it basically allows you to just add on an extra page or two or three or four to a particular profile. So you'll notice here, this is my, this is the profile that I'm using at the moment for recording this video in Ecam Live. And now I've got this little arrow up at the top. And that allows me to go on to my second page where I've got other scenes and buttons that I do want to have available for my take one tech videos, but I don't necessarily need them all the time. And the way that I've done this before was I just had a little, a separate profile that was kind of like extras. And then I had another one for live streaming. So these buttons down at the bottom are all for when I do my weekly live stream. So now it's all in one profile, but it's just spread out over two pages. So I'll show you how to do this. I've set up a blank profile down here. So I'm just gonna go into this profile. It's blank except for I've got a little button here, which is a shortcut to get back to my original profile. Incidentally, if you weren't sure how to do that, the other thing I've got here is my pro mouse zoom just so I can still zoom in while I'm in this profile. If I come over to the right hand side here, and we go into all of the controls for stream deck. If you've got multiple different profiles, I did explain this in the video I did about profiles, but just so that you know, you can actually switch profile. So you can just drag this switch profile and switch back to a different switch between profile. So that is all this button does here is it just takes me back to my take one tech profile. And then this button down here is taking me into this demo. So at the moment, this is how every profile will now look. You'll have this little thing at the bottom saying pages and it'll start with a one obviously, and you've got this little plus icon. And when you want to add another page, just click plus and there you go. Now we've got two pages, but one thing to note is you do obviously, I'll say obviously, you do need to have space for this little button because stream deck, the stream deck software will put in the arrows for you to go left and right. Now it will default to the bottom left here and the bottom right to skip between pages. But basically it will put it if you've got to like in my case, I had this, this was pretty much full and I got a little notification coming up when I tried to add in a page, which said, I just get the little notice up. It said, adding a new page requires an next page action to be added. Please delete some actions in this page to allow the creation of the new page. Well, you don't have to delete some, you just have to delete one because it basically just needs one empty slot to be able to add in this little arrow here. So once you've deleted a space, then you'll be able to add in your extra profiles, your extra pages rather. So let me just come back to that demo one I did. So you can see it has just defaulted to put in the arrow down here, but we can basically add as many pages as we want. I'll say as many, let's see, shall we? How many can we add? I wonder, 10 is the maximum. I probably wouldn't recommend using 10. If you're gonna use 10, it's maybe better to just use a different profile and link between. I'm not sure, but there you go. So if I come back to page one, what you can see is on each of these pages, we have now got these arrows over on the left and right to just flick between them. So I can flick between pages on my stream deck, like that. So I'm just pressing the button on my stream deck to cycle between them. You may want to have wonder which page you're on, because obviously when we're looking at the application, we can see all of these numbers, can't we? Whereas if you are somewhere in here and you're looking down at your stream deck, there's no differentiation between these pages, apart from obviously you'd have different buttons on them. But what we can do is if we come over to the stream deck, there's a couple of extra actions that have been added in. And one is this one, it says page indicator. So I can drag that on and it will actually, let's put it up in this top corner, shall we? It'll tell me which page I'm on. So what I'm gonna do is just copy that between my scenes. So in case you didn't know, you can actually just copy actions by pressing Command C. There we go. So I'm just gonna come in here and put this in every page. I think that probably 10 is a few too many. So what I'm gonna do is just show you how to delete some, which is as simple as coming down here to the pages icons down here and just right click on it and then select delete. I'll ask you if you're sure, so you don't go inadvertently go and delete your icons and obviously what was page seven is now page six. So let's delete those. And then I wonder if you can highlight them all. No, you can't. So you do have to delete them one by one like that. So there we go, that is how you delete them. So I showed you how we can add in the page number. Well, what you can also do is you may want to just have shortcuts to be able to jump directly to a page. And so with that, you can come through to the actions again and there's this other one, go to page. So in the same way that you could switch between profiles, now you can switch to pages of a specific profile. So if I just add that in there and then we might want to add a couple of those. So go to page, I'm not gonna do it for all of them. You'll get the idea. There's not much to it. So all you do is you come down and you select the page that you want to go to. So let's say page number two and then give it a title. And then this one, and obviously you can change all of these icons, which if I was going to be using this heavily, I would do. So there you go, that is page number two and three. And now if I press those buttons, it'll take me to, so I could just jump to page number three by pressing a three button and you can see that I've jumped to page number three. Obviously, if you want to have those on every page, you could just add those numbers in so that you could just jump between pages. I'm not sure that I'll use this in this way where I've got lots and lots of pages. I'll probably just use it where I've got spillover from one to another. So if I come back here, like I've got this main page, but then I just want a few extra actions on there. So I have already set this up for, I've got this obviously for this profile and then for things like my OmniFocus, Excel and things like that, where I do have quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts and things like that or stream deck shortcuts, I should say. Then it's handy just to have them all like that. The other way where I, the other place rather, I may use that is on my actual home screen that I use for stream deck where as I start adding more stuff on then maybe I'll have an extra page on that one for just as I get more and more things that need to go on there. So that is basically what all there is to the stream deck 5.1 update. But like I say, it's very timely for me and I hope that you find it useful too. And if you found this video useful, then the best way to let me know is to go and give it a like down below and also subscribe if you're not already subscribed and consider visiting my Buy Me a Coffee page if you found my content useful. So that's all for this video though. I'll leave a link to some more of my stream deck videos over on the right hand side. And until the next time, I'll see you later.