Temporarily turning off Deck navigation

Hi @Zach_Moody

Currently, there is no easy way to temporarily bypass Application Triggers on decks however if you'd like to dive deeper, you could use a globalState variable in conjunction with the "Show Deck on Stream Deck" Macro Action.

So you would have one script to enable/disable the deck switching with code like this;

if (globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger === undefined) {
    globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger = false;
} else {
    globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger = !globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger;
}

log("Deck Switching Enabled: " + globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger);

Then for each Deck that you want to be overridden, you'd remove the Application Trigger from those decks and create a standalone script that checks the globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger, and if it's true the deck will not be displayed.

The script for each of those decks would look like this;

const commandID = "user:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; //Command ID for the deck
const streamDeckSerial = "xxxxxxxxxxxx"; //Stream Deck serial

if (globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger === undefined || globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger === false) {

    sf.decks.get(commandID).showOnStreamDeck({
        device: sf.devices.streamDeck.getDeviceBySerialNumber(streamDeckSerial),
    });
}

Note:

The command ID's for the decks will need to be customized for each Deck. (You can copy the Command ID to the system clipboard via the "Command" menu in SoundFlow);
You'll also have to set the streamDeckSerial which you can find under "Setup Stream Deck" from the SoundFlow icon up by the clock.
Then each deck launching script, you'd need to add application triggers.

As you can see this can be achieved but requires some initial setup.
I hope that helps.

Thanks so much Kitch and Christian. This worked great! I use a script to get to these specialized record decks so I will add the enable/disable script to them. Thanks again.

I had a chance to try this out at work and it worked great! The only problem I'm having is now when I use Soundflow at home without the stream decks I get a "Cannot find a connected Stream Deck device" error every time I go to Finder. Is there way to turn this off? Thanks

Thanks so much Christian, That works perfectly.

I changed this last night on my laptop which worked great at stopping the Stream Deck not found alerts. But when I got to the studio today the Stream Deck that I'm using these scripts with wouldn't load any decks and just sat on the blue SoundFlow logo. I started a problem ticket before I remembered I'd changed the scripts last night. When I reverted them back, the Stream Deck works fine and everything loads correctly.

Here is what I was using that worked great when the Stream Deck was connected but threw alerts at me every time I clicked into the Finder when the Stream Deck was not connected. (I removed my Stream Deck's serial numberbefore posting this but it is correct in the script.)

const commandID = "package:ckebxbwn7000dnc10wjn49gvv"; //Command ID for the deck
const streamDeckSerial = "serialnumber"; //Stream Deck serial

if (!globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger) {

    sf.decks.get(commandID).showOnStreamDeck({
        device: sf.devices.streamDeck.getDeviceBySerialNumber(streamDeckSerial),
    });
}

Last night I changed it to this which got rid of the alert messages but stopped the Stream Deck from working.

const commandID = "package:ckebxbwn7000dnc10wjn49gvv"; //Command ID for the deck
const streamDeckSerial = "stream deck serial"; //Stream Deck serial

if (!globalState.suspendDeckApplicationTrigger) {
    var streamDeck = sf.devices.streamDeck.getDeviceBySerialNumber(streamDeckSerial);
    if (streamDeck) {
        sf.decks.get(commandID).showOnStreamDeck({
            device: streamDeck,
        });
    }
}

Can you help me figure out what I did wrong?
Thanks

Sorry, I should have said that I have two Stream Decks on this system, one regular and one XL. Is there a way to use that instead of the serial number? The XL is the one that does the deck switching. Right now I just use the regular one to launch applications and it always has the same deck on it. Thanks