Stream Deck integration

Hi all,

I recently bought myself a Stream Deck. For games I can control majority of the functions with SD as almost all controls can be assigned to wheel buttons, button boxes and keyboard shortcuts and once i assign a keyboard shortcut i can control it with SD.  I want to be able control simhub features as Dash controls, individual overlays (on/off/move), sounds, recording etc.

In "Controls and Events"; functions/ plug-ins can be assigned to any button or keyboard but SD button press does not yield any results.  None of these have preassigned keyboard shortcuts that i can program SD.  I could not figure out how to do it. To make matters worse, i can not understand what those plug-ins suppose to do also. They look rather cryptic to me. Simhub Wiki does not have information for those either. :=) 

In race department the is one plug-in for an older and smaller version of SD. I did not tried it as mine is XL and V 5.0.

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/simdeck.23296/

An other plug-in claims that you "Controls and Events" section will recognize the SD button presses.

http://www.baptiewright.com/streamdeck/com.baptiewright.simhub.streamDeckPlugin

Also I read (with the help of google translate) in a Dutch forum that with the newer versions SD v. 5.0+, SD would be communicating with simhub without a need of a plug-in. 

I am confused. What is the actual way to do it atm and where can i find the descriptions of the functions/plug-ins that can be assignable.

Thanks.

I second the request for stream deck integration.  I've just tried the plug-in below but it looks like there is only one way communication, SD > SH, therefore effect toggles can get out of sync, no reporting of effect settings ie 85%.   

http://www.baptiewright.com/streamdeck/com.baptiewright.simhub.streamDeckPlugin

Just enabling this plugin to report back a SimHub effect status and intensity level would be a game changer !

Hi.

I'm using Contour Design ShuttlePro ( https://streammentor.com/stream-deck-alternative/ ) - it's 4th from the top Elgato stream deck alternative - and have the same question.
Is this device compatible with SimHub? Or with any other streaming deck from that list I sent? What would you recommend to me?

Sorry for the double posting. I edited this post, so you can delete it. Regards.

A two way Streamdeck integration as you suggested would be a real gamechanger in usablity on the fly and setup all parameters. Please Wotever... integrade this. 

Best regards

Stream deck integration would be awesome. I really hope it gets added.

I have started a plugin for SimHub and one for Stream Deck. In combination, they make it possible to update the state of Stream Deck buttons through SimHub property values.

I made a video of the basic functionality on YouTube:

Both plugins are available on GitHub:

* https://github.com/pre-martin/SimHubPropertyServer

* https://github.com/pre-martin/StreamDeckSimHubPlugin

Please note: At the moment, the latest released version of the Stream Deck plugin is version 1.2, which was released almost a month ago. The documentation for this version can be found under https://github.com/pre-martin/StreamDeckSimHubPlugin/blob/v1.2/doc/Usage.md. I will release a new version 1.3.x in the next few days (some more testing is necessary). This new version will support expressions. The documentation of this upcoming version can be found in the "main" tree: https://github.com/pre-martin/StreamDeckSimHubPlugin/blob/main/doc/Usage.adoc

New features will be added in the future. E.g. a button which will display property values from SimHub, like RPMS, Speed and so on.

@dr-sim Your plugin looks very promising. Great that someone is investing his time into ot. For my special case I would like to use the two way communication to get the actual percentage of the shake it effects on the streamdeck. That way i would be able to change the effects on the fly with an actual feedback what the actual settings are. Do you think it would be possible to add that to your great plugin,too?

@domidom4 Thank you for your feedback. This feature request already came up a few days ago in a thread of Peter Winkler (may be he is known to you because of his SFX, Tactile etc. expertise).

I am already able to send input events to SimHub via my plugin (the first part of your requirement) - well, this feature exists only since a few seconds. The second part is more complicated: I assume that you want to set the gain value on different and nested effect groups. At the moment, I have only a very "hacky" and ugly way to get this information about the effect groups. I will try to get more information on the SimHub discord in the next days.

@dr-sim Thanks for your reply. I am able to change the effect gains with the old Streamdeck Plugin where i can bind the buttons to the effects with the original controller binding option of shake it.

Ive found the effect gains in a file called ShakeitBassShakerSettings.json in the simhub folder. Sadly this file is only refreshed everytime simhub is closed. It is not saved on the fly when one value is changed. 

I released new versions of my plugins (you need both of them):

SimHub Plugin v1.2.14:

It is now possible to access to "double" and "float" values (until now only "bool", "int" and "long" where supported). This allows access to 296 properties.

https://github.com/pre-martin/SimHubPropertyServer

Stream Deck Plugin v1.3.38:

Most important feature is the possibility to add expressions, which will determine the state of the Stream Deck buttons, such as "acc.graphics.gapBehind>=-500".

https://github.com/pre-martin/StreamDeckSimHubPlugin

This is FANTASTIC - just found it and am setting it up now. The only question I have so far is can you add a title next to a value that's pulled from SimHub? For example I want a button to say:

TC:1 

or

ABS:4

Where "ABS:" would be text that I'd add with the value then pulled from SimHub (say "ABSLevel") - I tried "ABS:"+ but everything I tried would just break it.

Thanks again for such a FANTASTIC integration!

~Ross

Another question - would it be possible to have 2 different actions/hotkeys on the same button? For example if I short press it generates a "1", if I long press it generates a "2". That way I could control iRacing to increase/decrease things like Traction Control and ABS using a single button.

I know you can have SimHub detect a short or long press and perform actions accordingly but I could see a way to get SimHub to set ABS or TC values for me, or to even just output a simple keystroke (but as I'm a moron I bet I'm just missing something).

Thanks again for this!

~Ross

@exigeous Thank you for using my plugins.

Text next to value: See https://github.com/pre-martin/StreamDeckSimHubPlugin/blob/main/doc/Usage.adoc#232-full-format. Enter your property into "SimHub property (for title"), e.g. "dcp.gd.ABSLevel" or "DataCorePlugin.GameData.ABSLevel" if there is no other logic required. Then enter "ABS: {:D}" or "ABS: {:F0}" into "Display Format". You can even insert a line break, so that you could use "ABS<return>{:D}". Section 2.3.2 describes exactly this with the example of Break Bias.

Short and long keypress: That's something I have to investigate. I just added the feature of long keypresses a few hours before release of v1.6, but I haven't really played around with it.