Toto Tvalavadze

Research · Ambient Computing · 021

Thirty-six keys and six dials between the desks

· Progress

A Stream Deck + XL will run the same scenes and checks as the panels. It goes on the small surface between Ludo’s desk and mine, so we both have equal access to it. I’m right-handed and Ludo is left-handed, so it sits on the right of my desk and on the left of hers, on each of our dominant sides.

The left five columns of keys carry the scenes, the lights, the doors and both ACs, the resin printer, and a key that sends the wall screen back to its overview. Leave studio asks for a second press when a door is open. Six push-dials set brightness and white for the Lab and the Study, then each AC, and the touch strip shows their values.

A Stream Deck + XL with scene, light, door, AC, and printer keys on the left, a touch strip showing brightness and color temperature, and six dials

The deck in the mockup. The right-hand block of keys stays free for later.

Elgato doesn’t publish the key grid, so the mockup draws it 9 × 4. A small plugin calling the studio brain would keep the deck in step with everything else. Since the deck is shared, it shouldn’t depend on either of our laptops: on the Mac mini, through Elgato’s Network Dock, it works without one.