 Do you want to be able to turn your Ecamm Live virtual monitor on and off with Stream Deck? Well, if so, you're in luck because I'm going to tell you how to do it in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech. My name's Alec, and I'm going to do a series of videos all about how I use keyboard maestro with Stream Deck to control some things on Ecamm or how I use it to help me with my general Ecamm setup and workflow. If you're not an Ecamm user, don't worry, there'll be some stuff in here as well. If you are interested in Stream Deck and keyboard maestro because some of the workflows can be applicable to other applications as well. We're going to start with an easy one today, and it is to basically toggle on and off the the video monitor, I nearly forgot what I was talking about then, the video monitor on my Ecamm Live because I do use a teleprompter, but I don't use it for a script as you can tell. I'm not reading anything here. But I do use it to have the output from Ecamm Live going to my teleprompter so that I can actually make sure that I'm on the right scene and that sort of stuff. In fact, let me just show you what that looks like. So here is my monitor. Here is my regular Ecamm setup. Here is where I'd often have different things that I'm going to be demonstrating in my tutorials in different positions on the screen. And then up here is my camera and my teleprompter. The teleprompter itself is a Desvue T3, which basically is this unit and that just sits over the top of the camera lens. It sort of slides onto a ring on the front of the lens. And then down here I've got a Lilliput A7 field monitor that goes over HDMI into my computer. And so now basically if I look into the lens, what I'm seeing there is the output from Ecamm Live. So it means that I'm looking down into the lens, but I can still see what's going on. I did a video all about the Lilliput and the Desvue, and so I'll leave a link to those in the description and also in the top corner. But what I'm talking about specifically here is at the moment I have the output from Ecamm coming into my Desvue T3 and so I want to be able to toggle that on and off. So if I press this button here, you'll notice that it disappears from the screen and then press it again and it comes back. The screen is still on. The screen just basically acts as another desktop. So it just acts as another display on my computer. And so when I'm filming these videos, I want the Ecamm output in there. Whereas if I'm on a zoom call or something like that, I want to be able to turn off that output because then I'll just have zoom there so that I'm making eye contact directly and can see the people that I'm talking with on Zoom. So there's various different reasons why you might want to toggle this on and off. You may have it on a secondary monitor using the the video monitor function on Ecamm Live and you may want to toggle it on and off for that as well. So I should probably just say exactly what I'm talking about in Ecamm Live. Maybe this is a feature that you didn't even know existed. Well, if I come over to my regular desktop and then here if I come up in my Ecamm Live menu, I go to output and then down here we've got a video monitor. If you've got multiple screens attached to your computer, then you'll see them actually in a list here. So you can just choose which one you want it to go to and then you can toggle it off here by just clicking that. It will go off and then come down here and come back to video monitor and you can turn it on again. So that is the the actual function in Ecamm Live that I want to trigger. And so we can do this in keyboard maestro. There is no stream deck button built in to do that at the moment, but we can do it with a little keyboard maestro macro. So let's come over and have a look at how to do that if I come over to my keyboard maestro for a moment set up. I'm not going to do a full introduction to keyboard maestro. I have already done that and I'll leave a link to the video just up above me here. So what we're going to do though is as I say I am going to go through and do a series of videos on different uses for keyboard maestro with Ecamm. So I have quite a few macros that I use specifically for that, but we're going to start from the beginning and just build this one out. So all we're going to do to trigger this particular macro is we're going to use the built-in function to basically activate a menu command in any application. And the secret to this is to do it so that it runs in the background because we could obviously just assign a keystroke to it in Ecamm and then use the built-in stream deck function to trigger that keystroke. The only trouble is if you are doing screen demos, things like that, and another application is at the front then those keystrokes won't work unless they're sort of universal keyboard shortcuts. So let me show you how we can do this though and trigger a keyboard shortcut in any application in the background in keyboard maestro. So I'm going to come down here to create a new macro and I'm going to call this one video monitor. Whoops if I can get into the right text box. Video monitor on. And all we're going to do here is I'm not going to assign a trigger to it. So as I mentioned in my intro video, which is linked with keyboard maestro, you've basically got a set of triggers so you can add in multiple different triggers here. And then what happens when you actually do trigger the macro? You can add in a whole series of actions down here. Well, this is basically one of the simplest because all we're going to do is just add in one action. And so we're going to come down here where the little new action button is, click on here, and what we want to do is we want to basically trigger a menu command. So if I search for menu, so I'll come over here and just type menu. And there you go. It's narrowed down the search. When you are searching, by the way, I've mentioned this before, but it's worth mentioning again. When you are searching for a command in keyboard maestro, just make sure that in the categories over on this side, you've got all actions selected, and then it's going to be doing that search in all available actions rather than like a little subset of them. So if we search for menu, though, here, you can see that we've got this one, select or show menu item. And so here, what we're going to do is we're going to select a specific menu item in the picker, or sorry, in the e-cam menu, I should say, but we've got a little picker that we can use to drill down to that. So here, we're going to click on menu and it should bring up a list of the currently running applications. It's just finally thinking about that for a little while. In fact, let me just go over here. I can actually select the application first or we can do it over here. So if you know the application, you know the menu and you know the name, you can type it in manually, but I always find it's easier to do this way. So I'm going to go to e-cam live and then in the menu, if you remember, it was in the output menu and then it was in the video monitor and then there we go. We've got the two options. So either off or in my case, it's just called monitor. As I say, you may have different monitors in here if you've got multiple. So you will be able to pick the one that you want it to go to. But mine is currently just called monitor. So I'm going to click on that and that is as simple as it goes to actually create the first step. So that is our video monitor on. Now what we want to do is we want to duplicate that. This macro because we want another macro now that's going to turn it off. So if I come here and I just duplicate like that and then this one we're going to call video monitor off. And then down here, we can either go through that little tree diagram to get back to the option that we want. But if you remember, there was two options. One was monitor and one was just off. So if I type in off here then that will actually be exactly what we want. So we've got one macro to turn it on and one macro to turn it off. And if I just trigger the off one, then I can tell you that my video monitor has just gone off. And if I trigger the on, then my video monitor has come on. So now what we want to do is add this into our stream deck and make it one nice little neat button. So I'm going to come over to stream deck. I can show you that I actually have mine here. So this is my button for my toggling my video monitor on and off. But I'm just going to show you how I did that in here. And what I used was I actually used a switch because we want two states because it's not one hot key to toggle it. It's basically one keystroke to turn it on or sorry, one macro to turn it on and one macro to turn it off. So what I did is I came into stream deck and then I created a switch. In fact, hang on one second. A multi-action switch. So it's not a hot key switch because we don't want to assign a hot key. It's actually we're performing an action. And although it's not technically a multi-action, it's the only way that I can add in that particular macro because the hot key switch wants you to add in hot keys. So I'm using a multi-action switch but I'm only going to use one action in each one, if that makes sense. So here what I'm going to do is I'm going to come to my keyboard maestro which is in custom and KM link. So just once again, in case this is the first one you're watching related to using keyboard maestro with stream deck, the plugin that I recommend is KM link. So if you come into your stream deck store, sorry if I'm rushing, if you come up here, click on this to go into the stream deck store then go to plugins and then come over here into the search box and type KM link. If he can spell properly, there we go, it's come up there. That's the one you want. There is a keyboard maestro plugin as well but I find that the KM link one is the easiest one to use to just simply activate macros. So let me come back into that switch and what I'm going to do is I'm going to add my little KM link action in and here it will tell me the macros that I've got and it will show me the last modified one which was this one, video monitor off. So I'm going to click on that one and then I'm going to come over to the second state of the switch. So this is what is going to happen when I click it once but if I come over here to the second stage then this is what is going to happen when it switches back the other way and so what I want to do here is add it in another KM link and this time we want to have that video monitor on. So if I come down here somewhere, you come live demo, I think it was called, there it is, video monitor on. So now I've got this switch where in one state it's off and in the other state it's on and that is as simple as it gets. Obviously when you're in this particular action or this multi-action in stream deck you can change the icon for here and here so that you've got two separate icons if you want and so then what happens when I press that is my video monitor will turn on and off and just to approve that. Here we go, you can see that the video monitor is toggling on and off as I'm pressing that button. So that is quite a little simple one in later videos I'm going to be showing you how to do things like arranging your e-cam windows and all sorts of things like that. Getting your e-cam set up ready for recording or for live streaming all using the built-in functions but then combining that also with keyboard maestro. So if you have found that useful then definitely go down leave a comment tell me what else you would like to see in this series and if you found it really useful then you can always head over to my Buy Me A Coffee page that's the easiest way to support the channel on an ongoing or one-off basis but don't go anywhere though because I am actually going to be leaving a link to my other stream deck videos over on the right hand side so you can check out some of those and there will be more in this series coming up very soon.