Control Grindstonoe with Elgato Streamdeck (or any other custom keyboard)

Grindstone 4
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Hi there!

I am using an Elgato Streamdeck for multiple purposes. For those who don’t know Streamdeck - it is a custom keyboard with 15 keys that can be assigned with any task as you like.
It would be a huge productivity-boost if I could control Grindstone with my Streamdeck.
As far as I know, there is no Streamdeck-Plugin available (if I am wrong, PLEASE let me know :slight_smile: )

Is there an API or any other wa to control Grindstone from any 3rd party software? Especially I am interested in start/stop the stopwatch and switching work items while Grindstone is running.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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I don’t know of any API, but you can at least do task switching with the Ctrl-Alt-G keyboard shortcut :slight_smile: I use a duckyPad which lets you write scripts for keypresses, and my scripts which are simply:

  1. Ctrl-Alt-G
  2. Wait a tiny bit.
  3. Type in a pre-programmed task name.
  4. Enter.

Not completely robust to all situations, but pretty workable. I’d love to see more global keyboard shortcuts to hook onto with scripts though.

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Heyho, thanks for your reply!
This is actually a great hint - I am going to try if this will work :slight_smile: