Mute microphone/speakers in Slack/Teams, leave meeting, using Stream Deck?

rob · December 8, 2021, 1:16pm

Got my Stream Deck XL last week. Already enjoying it, but these things would help even more while working from home, due to COVID-19 measures:

mute microphone in Slack (and show the actual status)
mute speakers in Slack (and show the actual status)
leave a Slack meeting/huddle
mute microphone in Teams (and show the actual status)
mute speakers in Teams (and show the actual status)
leave a Teams meeting

I guess I’m not the first to want this. Anyone already created/found such thing?

airwhale · December 8, 2021, 4:26pm

Only using Teams myself, but I have set up a key on the keyboard to send Shift-Ctrl-M to mute / unmute the microphone. Status is clearly shown in the Teams UI. Only works if Teams is the active application though.

rob · December 8, 2021, 4:33pm

Keyboard Maestro might help in (briefly) making Teams the active application?

I have a Keyboard Maestro 10 license (and Stream Deck has a KM plug-in), so KM based solutions are welcome too!

simonsmark · December 8, 2021, 11:15pm

This website will get you going for Teams. Here’s my Teams setup and it automatically switches to it when Teams window is active:

rob · December 9, 2021, 8:31am

Thanks. Just tested it, but it did not seem to work for me. Until I made sure Teams was the active App…

I noticed that this profile just sends key strokes to the system, so it should not be hard to do that part myself.

EDIT: Microsoft offers an overview of keyboard shortcuts.

This profile does not show the current status (muted or not muted), does it?

rob · December 9, 2021, 3:47pm

@simonsmark How did you create that screenshot?

Did you manually make a screenshot of the Stream Deck App and cut that, or is there a better way?

simonsmark · December 10, 2021, 3:39pm

yup scale the app to the right size and take an area screenshot for upload

simonsmark · December 10, 2021, 3:46pm

it does for me as I made it multi action. See toggled version here:

You can either use the Audio Mute plugin (search plugin store) to mute mic or the Teams keyboard shortcuts … whatever simpler

simonsmark · December 10, 2021, 3:49pm

I use the Audio Mute plugin on the homepage of my Stream Deck. This way I always have mute at hand also when Teams is not the active window. Here’s the toggled version: