An application to control your Elgato Stream Deck on Linux

• Arch Linux: deckmaster
• Packages in Alpine, Debian & RPM formats
• Binaries for various architectures

Make sure you have a working Go environment (Go 1.11 or higher is required). See the install instructions.

To install deckmaster, simply run:

git clone https://github.com/muesli/deckmaster.git
cd deckmaster
go build

On Linux you need to set up some udev rules to be able to access the device as a regular user. Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-streamdeck.rules and add these lines:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0060", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev", SYMLINK+="streamdeck"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0063", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev", SYMLINK+="streamdeck-mini"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="006c", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev", SYMLINK+="streamdeck-xl"

Make sure your user is part of the plugdev group and reload the rules with sudo udevadm control --reload-rules. Unplug and replug the device and you should be good to go.

If you want deckmaster to be started automatically upon device plugin, you can use systemd path activation, adding streamdeck.path and streamdeck.service files to $HOME/.config/systemd/user.

streamdeck.path contents:

[Unit]
Description="Stream Deck Device Path"

[Path]
# the device name will be different if you use streamdeck-mini or streamdeck-xl
PathExists=/dev/streamdeck
Unit=streamdeck.service

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

streamdeck.service contents:

[Unit]
Description=Deckmaster Service

[Service]
# adjust the path to deckmaster and .deck file to suit your needs
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/deckmaster --deck path-to/some.deck
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Then enable and start the streamdeck.path unit:

systemctl --user enable streamdeck.path
systemctl --user start streamdeck.path

You can find a few example configurations in the decks directory. Edit them to your needs!

Start deckmaster:

deckmaster -deck deck/main.deck

You can control the brightness, in percent:

deckmaster -brightness 50