hi and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're doing really really well
in this video today i'm going to show you two different ways that you can link discord
to your stream deck application i'll also show how you can set up key barons if you don't have
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for those of you that don't know what those two functions actually do briefly
muting on discord literally mutes your microphone and stops other users on discord from being able
to hear what you're saying that's quite useful if you still want to be able to hear people on
discord but you don't want them to hear what you're saying and that's quite important because
when you're chatting away to your broadcast uh to your viewers it can maybe gets quite annoying
to the people that are in the discord deafening what that does is it mutes both your speech into
discord so they can't hear you in discord but it also means that you cannot hear them so it's
complete deafen that's pretty useful if you don't want people on discord to hear you but
you also don't want to hear them because maybe you don't want your broadcast uh to hear them as well
there's a pretty high chance if you're streaming that you've got your sound outputs through your
headset and your headset then is the output for the stream or the main desktop output for the
stream and if that's the case anything that you're hearing through discord will be coming through
to your viewers when you are broadcasting obviously if you've got a stream deck having
an integration with the stream that makes most sense so here's just a quick demo of what that
actually looks like so i've got these two buttons here integrated via a custom integration which
we'll show later on in the video when i press mute what you can see here is discord mutes me
it's muted here and indicated and now you see the icon here anyone on discord that i would be
in a call with now i've always could not be able to hear me but i can still hear them deafening
deafening does both the mute and the deafen so that stops the sound coming through uh your
headset and also stops your microphone outputting to discord as well so i'm going to start by
just deleting these buttons and showing you from scratch exactly what you do and i'm also going to
uninstall the application why do not now have the installation of that on my stream deck first
things first i do want to credit fred emmett he is a developer looks like he's a software engineer
we're going to use his stream deck and discord integration he also does have a video on this
it's a much shorter version than mine um he's not going into all the details that i'm going to it's
just a bang bang bang kind of short video in the video that i'm doing here i'm going to show you
how to make the best get the best from the button as well as how to set it up i want you to credit
him because it's a really good tool so thanks fred for your for your tool there i appreciate
the tool it's definitely worked very well for me so far first of all we need to navigate to fred's
github page where we can download the application that then gets installed into the stream deck
i don't know if you're able to locate it through the search function here searching within native
to the stream deck application so the best thing to do and i'll link it in the description below
make sure you download in the most recent version it's not a very big download it's very small
and it's the discord stream deck plugin that should download to your desktop here
custom action download from the internet make sure to install it install what you
then have is a custom installation here you are able to reorganize these by clicking on
the toggle there what we want to go ahead and do here is add a mute button and a default button
to get the best from this what i also do is is actually have these named as well discord and
then when you press enter it drops the text down define discord drop it down mute you see there the
text a little bit big so i'm just going to reduce the text size a little bit there delete that extra
eye what i also want to do is here i want a version of it that's when it's deafened when
it's not definite i actually want the text to be green i'm going to make the text green when it's
not deafened and that's just a visual indicator when you do deafen you get the line through it
so it is indicated so i want to make that red when it's when it's uh deafened on and red off
the buttons themselves are configured in terms of design but we now need to
set up an app give it the app secret connect it and this essentially connects discord to
the stream deck and allows one to control the other namely the stream deck to control discord
so to do this we need to visit discord.com forward slash developers forward slash applications we're
going to create a new application under the applications tab here give it a name
at this point we need to go into author 2. we need to add a redirect i'll link this in description
below and again thanks to fred for this apparently this redirect isn't actually used it's just
kind of a functional thing we add that in and now we can select that redirect as well just
save the changes there all of your edits have been carefully recorded i don't know
why carefully but there you go this point we go back into general information copy the client id
and go back into the stream deck here on both buttons we want to be copying the app id there
it'll be asked to authorize we're going to authorize that it'll be a secret code as well
that we need to paste in this is the secret code here so we just need to copy that on both buttons
we're going to paste in the app secret here authorize just press authorize whenever you
get the pop-ups so now that we've got the client id in and the secret key we've linked discord and
authorized discord uh to work with the stream deck hopefully that should now work let's just try it
i can see that is deafening is working as intended muting is working as intended
and you get the visual indicator as well on the buttons if you're having trouble
connecting discord to your stream deck another option here is to go with the um keybinds and to
access the keybinds use the settings here and then there's a keybind section here and there is
a toggle for muting and for deafening now i've set mine to ctrl shift m but you can edit the keybind
here and toggle def and ctrl shift d so another way i could do this is to add essentially a hotkey
so i can use a system hotkey system functions on the stream deck are pretty common
so all i've done here is assign ctrl shift m to that and to this one ctrl shift d to change
the name of it ctrl shift d they essentially achieve the exact same thing now if i press those
that's two ways of doing essentially the same thing one involves keybinds and using a system key
a system hotkey and another involves using an application from fred emmett which is just kind
of a little bit smoother a little bit nicer to do and uses an authorization loop and if you don't
have a stream deck you can still use the keybinds ctrl shift n control shift d or whatever it is
that you set and just use the keybinds on the keyboard instead so that's just one way that you
can get a little bit more convenience from your keyboard without actually having a stream deck
so they have it two different ways that you can integrate the stream deck with discord or simply
just use keyboard binds to achieve the same thing without having to pay or have a stream deck if you
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