Stream Deck 8.0 — One-Click Setups with Ideas

Stream Deck 8.0 is now in public beta, and it makes setting up your keys a lot easier. A new feature called Ideas suggests things you can add to your Stream Deck, and each one goes on your keys in a single click.

This update also expands what AI agents can do with Stream Deck. A connected AI app can now add actions to your keys and set them up for you.

Ideas is a new tab in Stream Deck, next to Actions and Marketplace, full of ready-made setups for your keys, from controlling Spotify to managing your Discord calls.

Pick one, and Stream Deck does the rest. Select Control Spotify, and Stream Deck installs the Spotify plugin and fills your keys with play and pause, track skipping, volume, and Liked Songs.

That makes a brand-new Stream Deck useful from the moment you plug it in, with no need to know which plugin does what.

With Stream Deck 8.0, you can ask an AI app like Claude or ChatGPT to set up your Stream Deck for you. Describe what you want on your keys, and it adds the actions and configures them.

This runs through MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard AI agents use to connect to other software. Stream Deck has supported MCP since version 7.4, which let AI agents trigger actions you’d already set up. Setting up new actions this way works with plugins that support it. That includes most Elgato plugins, and other Makers can add it to theirs.

Connecting an AI app is simpler too. The new AI tab in Preferences has one-click setup for popular AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and more. If your AI app connects over HTTP, you can turn on a local HTTP server and set a custom port.

With Stream Deck 8.0, Ideas helps you discover new things to put on your keys, and your AI agent can set them up for you. The beta is available now on Windows and Mac.

The list of Ideas will keep growing over time, and when Stream Deck 8.0 releases, you’ll also be able to buy plugins directly in Stream Deck, without opening Elgato Marketplace in your browser. Tell us which Ideas you’d like to see in our Stream Deck 8.0 beta megathread on Reddit.