That's right, Microsoft Teams integration four.
The El Gatta stream deck is here really helping revolutionize those business
meetings that I'm in every single day.
And the stream deck is one of my favorite devices that I use for everything,
including this recording right now.
So let's check out this awesome integration that's available for Microsoft
Teams and the Al Gatta stream deck.
So tune in.
Hi everyone.
I'm James and I'm back today talking about one of my favorite devices and one of my
favorite applications that I use every single day on my machine, which is the
El Gato Stream deck and Microsoft Teams.
Now, El Gato Stream Deck is one of my favorite devices that I've been using for
years at this point, for all of my videos, all of my live streams, and so much more.
In fact, I'm using it right now as we speak.
So it's one of my favorite devices cause it's a physical piece of hardware
that you can fully customize different buttons on with different function.
Right now I'm using it to change scenes when I record to turn on and
off my lights to hit record and of course to do other things when I
stream live, such as send out tweets and a bunch of other automations.
But combined with Microsoft Teams and El Goo stream deck, you can now do all
of your different hand raise emojis.
Um, you can send all those reaction emojis.
You can unmute yourself, you can end the call.
You can do so much more directly from your little elga stream deck, which is amazing.
So let's go ahead and check.
All right, if you're brand new to the Elga Stream Deck, Elga is a company
that makes all sorts of different devices, including the stream deck.
You can see here there's a bunch of different versions, including the mini.
I just have the standard.
They have a mobile application.
They have capture devices, cameras, microphones, so much more.
I use a bunch of their stuff right now.
Alga to Stream Deck, great.
It usually integrates into O B S, but there's a lot of different features
cuz you can integrate it with all sorts of different applications,
productivity applications, lighting, audio, and so much more.
There's all sorts of different setups that you can see in integrations cuz
there's a third party store where you can download different things, which is nice.
Like I said, I'm using my stream deck right now.
This is the desktop app, so this is like kind of what I see physically
on my little stream deck down here.
I have a few buttons.
This is my, my recording profile, so it's not great.
We'll take a look at a better one, but there's a few scene changes when I
change scenes from me to this desktop.
And then there's a record button, and then down over here I have my
mute button for my O B s Micro.
I have a lighting button here so I can actually turn off my lights.
Whoa.
Turn them back on.
I don't have to do anything.
That's really nice.
If I look at my stream, uh, here we can see I have a bunch of different scenes.
I have YouTube stats that come in, a hide computer button, my C P U usage.
When I start a stream, it does a whole bunch of different
actions, which is really cool.
And what we see on the, uh, right hand side here is all of the
different integrations, so things like YouTube and multi action
navigation, O Studio, Twitter.
Whole bunch more.
So these are all integrated, but there's also a store.
So when you tap on this little button, you see it right here, this
little button extension store button.
We can see there's plugins, there's icons, there's sound effects, there's all sorts
of different cool stuff that you can get.
Uh, we want plugins or we can go anywhere in here and just type in teams.
And here is the Microsoft Teams extension.
So it's a business tool, which is cool.
Now you of course have to have a specific, you know, version of Microsoft
Teams that's gonna support this.
You know, I don't, I gotta look at what plans are exactly.
I don't wanna put it in the show notes and links to the official announcement on
it, but I use IT teams at work every day.
So I wanna do things like raise my hand, do the emojis, mute my.
Do recordings, all this other stuff.
So all I gotta do is hit install, install the extension, and just
like that, I have everything I need.
Now for this, inside of Microsoft Teams, you will find an api.
When you're in teams, you'll see a little triple.by your profile.
You'll go to settings, privacy, and you'll see APIs.
If you don't see that yet, then it hasn't rolled out, um, specifically for you.
And this, the blog post that came out, said it's rolling out
over this month of February.
Three, I guess.
Yeah.
Cool.
So once I install that, let's create a new profile.
And then here, if I scroll down, we see all the different integrations.
And here are all of the Microsoft teams ones.
So we have, uh, things like leave call, mute raise, hand reaction.
Uh, let's just put a raise hand one over here.
. And now what I'll see here is that there is a little lock on here and that's
cuz Microsoft Teams needs an API token.
So I'm gonna go ahead over and switch over to my work machine really quick
and we will go ahead and set it all up with my API key and join a call
and do some sweet emoji reactions.
So let's head over there.
Okay, so here I am, here in my work profile.
This is what I normally see, but let's create a new one.
So I'm gonna create a new profile here.
You're gonna say a new profile.
There we go.
I'm gonna say, um, it's my work profile.
We'll change that around.
And here there's a bunch of things in here so we can see all
of the different integrations.
So some things that you might wanna put in here, like I have an analog clock
extension and my CPU usage extension.
That was pretty nice.
Uh, but down here, let's start to do the teams integrations.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is add the mute button, and then I have
my API key that I've already entered.
So it is totally good to go.
And I'm gonna blur all of these API keys out so you can't see them.
But I've pasted.
now, like I saw earlier, you say that little lock until you
hit the API token and hit enter.
Let's do some other things like I'm gonna do my raised hand.
Let's go ahead and do all the different reactions over here.
I love it.
There we go.
And of course, I can see all of this on my stream deck as well, which is cool.
So there's all my different e emotes there.
Raise hand, let's put.
leave button down here, maybe my camera on and off.
The leave button's a little scary.
You know what I mean?
When you're leaving, that's, that's there.
Um, but let's put a blurred background over here.
And you just get all these great integrations, right?
I don't need a record button, but I feel pretty good about that.
Um, which is nice.
And you can put a little title on here too.
So you could say this would be your leave and then you'll see leave come up here.
Uh, obviously this is Ray's hand.
This would be turned on off my camera and blur background, but in
case I really wanna leave it, it's.
Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and create a, uh, teams meeting for myself so
we can see that this is gonna be my stream deck, but here is my call.
So let's go ahead and turn on the camera and the camera.
I'm just gonna point right here at, uh, this, which is cool.
See if I can straighten it out a little bit.
There we go.
It's kind of hard to see with the lights, but you'll get an idea.
There we go.
I'm gonna hit join here.
And what's cool about this is that now that we're in the meeting, that all
these little things kind of light up.
The lighting is kind of not great, but you kind of get the ideas that
these little emos line up and when I tap on them, it sends it right
into the meeting, which is so cool.
Look at that.
Uh, I can hit mute and you see my, my mute is there, which is amazing.
Uh, I can blur my background, which again would be kind of, kind of cool.
Oh my gosh, this is so cool.
I can raise my hand.
There we go.
And, or so much more.
And when I'm done, I just hit the leave.
Bye-bye.
Amazing.
So this is like really, really neat.
Of course you can customize it exactly how you want and anything you want.
It's just like that.
So simple.
All you gotta do is go into your settings privacy, grab that API
token and your totally good to go.
All right.
There you have it.
That is how to integrate Microsoft Teams and your Elga
Stream deck together all in one.
It is absolutely fantastic.
I love it.
I can't wait to use it all throughout the day and all throughout the year.
I'm really excited for this integration.
If you're like me and you liked the webinars and the meetings are in,
you're hitting the thumb up button to tell all your coworkers that you.
Also maybe, you know, share this video with them, show them how to set it up,
and also jam that like button down there.
Of course, subscribe to the channel, put out a bunch of development blogs, how-to
blogs, reviews, and a bunch more, uh, on all sorts of good things in development.
I love it.
I hope that you enjoy this integration and use it.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Uh, if there's any other cool stream deck integrations you want me to cover, I'll
do it here on my channel, whether it's for recording, for development, or a lot more.
Anyways, I thank you so much for watching.
Have a good one.