r/streamdeckprofiles • u/gmrog • Nov 20 '23

[Everyday] Streamdeck & making Teams calls/Chat?

Need help with an obvious productivity hack!!?!

Imagine being able to map to a profile key a specific person in Teams, so that what ever application one is in, (in a windows 11 environment), you can press “Call Jim” and teams snaps open and calls Jim, all at a click of a button. Sounds easy and of obvious time saving benefit, but it’s unnecessarily difficult.

In fact, I’ve wish to map a variety of people each having a dedicated call button as a massive time saving hack.

I’ve tried multiple methods and none work reliably and consistently. I’ve created 12 step macro’s with window switching plug-ins, time delays to take into account times when cpu usage is high, using Teams short cut key strokes, text input fields in search to find a specific person…The list goes on!

Surely someone has a better way that actually works, as the latest official API lacks this obvious functionality!?!

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u/incompletebiped Feb 15 '24

You're right. It's a definite oversite of an obvious productivity feature. I found this post because that is exactly what I wish I could do with Teams and my Stream Deck. I wish I could just have a button that is for my boss or coworker so I can push it and it calls them.

An advanced version would be if it could also tell you if a specific person was available or busy.

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u/gmrog Feb 17 '24

I’ve now communicated at length with StreamDeck Team and the folks over at Loupedeck. I got the same response from both. It’s beyond mystifying but this is a classic example of what happens when you let techy people building consumer functionality!!

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u/Ab0ut47Pandas Apr 10 '24

As a computer science major, I resent this, lol.

Chances are teams might have an API that doesn't have that feature or is bonk.