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Installing on Ubuntu 18.04

The following guide was tested on Ubuntu 18.04.

This version of Ubuntu comes with Python 3.6 and we have to install Python 3.8 and then make sure we can also run pip. Please see this post for more details.

sudo apt install python3.8 python3.8-dev libhidapi-libusb0 libxcb-xinerama0

Explanation

  • python3.8 - Does a side by side install of python 3.8. Run with python3.8. Your python 3.6 can be run with python3 as per usual.
  • python3.8-dev - Some dependencies need to be built during the install. You'll need this package for that to work.
  • libhidapi-libusb0 - The USB library to communicate to the Stream Deck hardware.
  • libxcb-xinerama0 - Required by pyside2 (the Qt based UI library).

This will install pip for python3.6

sudo apt install python3-pip

Next, we will use the pip module installed in the previous step, to install pip for python 3.8. Yea I know, it's weird, installing pip with pip.

python3.8 -m pip install pip

Before we can run pip3.8, we need to set

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin

You should also add this to your .bashrc file.

Confirm you are able to run pip3.8 as follows:

$ pip3.8 --version
pip 21.0.1 from /home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)

Install streamdeck-ui

pip3.8 install streamdeck-ui --user

We need configure the USB device to be accessible by the currently logged in user, when it is attached:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/70-streamdeck.rules

Paste the following lines:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0060", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0063", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="006c", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="006d", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fd9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0080", TAG+="uaccess"

Reload the rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

Remove and plug your Stream Deck in.

streamdeck