Boatswain
Control your Elgato Stream Decks
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com.feaneron.BoatswainBoatswain allows you to control Elgato Stream Deck devices.
With Boatswain you will be able to:
- Organize your actions in pages and profiles
- Set custom icons to actions
- Control your music player
- Play sound effects during your streams
- Control OBS Studio using Stream Deck (requires the obs-websocket extension)
- Send network requests
- Keep track of your gaming score
- Open files and launch applications
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
6.011 Apr 2026
Boatswain 6.0 is here! This release comes packged with bugfixes and optimizations.
What's new:
- Move all image processing to Glycin, a more modern and safer image library
- Remove dependency on GUsb and GdkPixbuf
- Translation updates
5.027 Mar 2025
Boatswain 5.0 is here! This release comes with support for new devices, various improvements and optimizations, and new actions!
What's new:
- Trigger keyboard shortcuts on your system with the Keyboard Shortcuts action
- Support for Elgato Stream Deck Plus and Neo
- Update interface to more modern visuals
In order to introduce support for the new devices, significant parts of the application had to be reworked. Please let us know if you spot any issues!
0.4.026 Nov 2023
Boatswain 0.4.0 is here! This release comes with new actions, polished and more modern visuals, and various quality of life improvements and bugfixes:
- The new HTTP Request action allows sending HTTP requests to URLs
- Keep track of your score with the new Score action
- Open files with a single press of a button with the new Open File action
- Update interface to more modern visuals
0.3.010 Feb 2023
- Polished application icon
- Support for Elgato Stream Deck Pedal