hi guys how you doing welcome in this is machine dana i hope you're doing really really well
in this video i'm going to show you how you can use system hotkeys on your stream deck to trigger
key binds within discord to mute and define now i have done a more detailed video on this using
a third-party application and including the hotkey approach in this video it's just the
hotkey approach it's a little bit more simple i've noticed a few people been having problems
with the downloaded application version of this so i thought i'd do a much shorter
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get straight into this so what we've got here i've got stream deck open i've also got discord open
all we're going to do is first set up a keybind within discord and then we're going to use a
system key hotkey within the stream deck to be able to trigger that same hotkey first what
we're doing here is defining the keybind within discord and then having a button separately on
the dream deck that actually triggers that same keybind so it's equivalent of pressing one button
to trigger multiple buttons being pressed if that makes good sense so what we need to do in
in discord first of all in user settings you need to go into keybounds here i've already got here
toggling mute and toggling def and setup toggle means it toggles between yes or no so it's simply
a a binary action it's either muted or not it's either defined or not i've got these keyboards set
up as ctrl shift m to add a new keybind you simply click on add keybind you select the action that
you want it to achieve in this case uh if you want it to toggle mute as as per this one here and then
you record the keybind here and you simply press the key so if i want to set this as ctrl shift d
for example so now ctrl shift d and ctrl shift n will basically do the same thing toggle mute but
just to illustrate that that's how you add the keybind within discord then i'll set up so now
when i use within discord let's just get rid of this if i type on my keyboard ctrl shift d
it will define as you can see both icons are different i'll just undefine that toggled and
ctrl shift n will just mute and once again to unmute it so it toggles between the two
we've now got discord fully set up now we move on very quickly to the stream deck within the
stream deck all you need to do is locate system keys and we're going to drag in two hotkeys one
two and we're going to use these system hotkeys to click to assign specific hotkeys and we're
going to replicate exactly what we've done in discord so let's just first call this one mute
discord call this one uh define discord so all we need to do now is click to assign
a keystroke to the hotkey here so control shift
m is the same as the discord mute keybind and here we've got control click here control shift
d which will replicate the key bind for deafening in discord now when i press that button and that
button it will literally replicate those same key binds that we've just set and because those key
binds mean something in a different application that will work perfectly but just to illustrate
this i'm going to press on my stream deck now the mute discord we're just going to see if this works
there you go and toggle and the same for deafen there you go that works perfectly
so there you have it if you want to replicate the keybinds that you've set up in discord within the
stream deck it's as simple as adding a hotkey and dropping on the same replicated keybinds a much
shorter way without having to download third-party applications um the third-party applications i've
found to work pretty well to be honest but i know that some people have had trouble with them
is why i wanted to make this much shorter quicker easier video okay happy streaming and take care
cheerio