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Companion

With Bitfocus Companion, your phone becomes a surface, like a Stream Deck: the keys and pages you set up there show up on the phone, and a tap triggers whatever they're set to do. This gives DroidDeck access to the hundreds of devices Companion controls (video switchers, audio consoles, PTZ cameras...).

Setup

  1. Open Companion. The Satellite API port (16622) is on by default.
  2. Open Settings → Integrations → Companion in DroidDeck, choose the grid's columns and rows (the default is 8 × 4), and tap Connect.
  3. DroidDeck shows up under Surfaces in Companion.

Companion on another PC: enter its IP (192.168.0.20, or 192.168.0.20:16622).

How to use it

Tap Open the surface, or create a Companion button on the deck. The screen stays on while this is open. Holding a key counts as holding: Companion gets the press and the release separately.

  • All phones show the same surface. To Companion, it's a single device.
  • If a phone drops with a finger on a key, the PC releases the key by itself.

Not yet tested with the real program

This integration was built from the official documentation and tested with a protocol simulator, not with the real Companion. If something doesn't work, open an issue.