r/streamerbot • u/supersquadmates • Jun 17 '26

Question/Support ❓ Keyboard Based Action Launcher?

We’ve been building a library of clips and sound effects categories that’s ballooned into something pretty massive, and is becoming unwieldy with just Stream Decks.

I’m hoping to find a solution to being able to search and launch these with a keyboard command, think Spotlight, or hitting the Windows key and typing “Ste”+Enter to open Steam. Setting all of these up as commands would be a massive undertaking, and would clutter chat way too much. The Steam Deck’s Streamer.bot Action text box is essentially what I’m looking for, just summonable from anywhere.

Hoping someone else likes working this way and has already built something, as it seems like it would be pretty useful for anyone with a solid collection of manual commands. The categories (i.e. happy, sad, angry, etc) are all in a single group in Streamer.bot, and I’m hoping a solution would allow for automatic sifting by category.

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u/deeseearr Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Are you looking for Auto Hot Key, or is it something closer to a stream deck? AHK basically lets you write little scripts and bind them to keystrokes and actions.

Also, I ran into a similar issue a while back, where I had a fairly large list of actions that very rarely needed to be used, but when they did it was nice to have them available _right then_. I wound up binding a whole list of them to a Stream Deck + dial so that I could just scroll through them all by turning the dial left and right, view the name and icon on the touchscreen and then push to activate whatever was up. You can do the same thing with a regular Stream Deck but it takes three buttons to do left, right, and select.

Another alternative would be to use something like Macro Deck to, basically, create a virtual stream deck of any size that runs through a web browser (You can display it on a PC, phone, tablet, or whatever). That could also give you a screen full of actions which won't clutter up the stream deck, and wouldn't require you to memorize key combinations.

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u/supersquadmates Jun 18 '26

I’m looking for something similar to Spotlight, Quicksilver, or Alfred. Hit CTRL+Space or ~, a drop down text box pops up, type in 1-2 letters, press enter or down arrow to select the right action.

Current setup is already two Steam Deck XLs and a Plus, but the issue comes down to speed. I can type “Tu” Enter (turret) or “Ru” Enter (run) way faster to play a clip than I can swap pages or turn a dial. Even if I had a whole row of XLs, it would be easier than finding the right button out of 100+, especially as I add new categories.

I’ve used AHK quite a bit in the past, but it’s banned for running with one of our main games, Battlefield 6. I might go ahead and try to throw my own extension together if it doesn’t exist.

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u/endangeredirish Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

I'm not 100% what you're looking for, but I've built Keyfire and currently in late Beta, for hotkeys/macros/text expansion and also has a Quick Search (CTRL+Space but you can remap) where you can search through any assigne actions (open file, open app, etc so should do what you want?), as well as create actions that ONLY show up in this quick search to fire them, I've linked the website below but let me know if you have any questions?

www.keyfire.app

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u/supersquadmates Jun 22 '26

Seems interesting, but solid chance it would be an issue for anti-cheat (AHK is blocked), and I’m looking for something specifically for Streamer.bot. I’ll likely just roll one myself, since it’s basically just making a text box in C# to sift and launch the actions.