Flatsonar

Boatswain

by Georges Basile Stavracas Neto

Control your Elgato Stream Decks

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v6.0
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About

Boatswain 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

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • media player controls (MPRIS)
    --talk-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.*

Who publishes this

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  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

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