Following up on my previous blog post, due to popular demand, I started a small fundraiser campaign to acquire an Elgato Stream Deck Plus.
The goal is US$ 500, which should cover the costs of acquiring the device, and should pay for a few hours of reverse engineering work Boatswain development. Naturally, I’ll also document the USB format that these devices use, so that other developers out there can implement support in their own apps.
This particular model will be more complicated than other Stream Deck devices because it features a touch screen, and 4 activatable knobs. It will require a rather substantial rework of Boatswain so that it can support separate button grids, different button types, finger detection, and more.
I did reach out to Elgato, but they don’t seem interested in giving away one of their devices, or even a devboard, for me to hack on.
Whether or not this goal is reached, I’d like to thank all of the people that supported me on Ko-Fi and GitHub so far. Your support is truly humbling and it allowed me to write Boatswain in the first place, and much more!
Edit: since writing this article, I was let known that there is one other project that already reverse engineered parts of this device. I’ve adjusted the description to mention “Boatswain development” instead of “reverse engineering”.
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