Any way to "hack my way" into creating custom hotkeys?

MirceaG

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Hey everyone!

I'm running a pretty complex OBS setup for my live streams, and I am trying to find a way to automate changing the Monitoring Device (from Settings -> Audio) through a hotkey or some sort of macro.

Obviously, this is not offered among the standard hotkey options, so:

Is there any way I can do that?

I'm fine with using external software, complicated solutions... basically, I just want to know if this is possible.

(In case you want to know why I need it: I'm mirroring an iPad through an ATEM Mini HDMI switcher, and I need to monitor the device into my speakers to hear its sound, myself. This is essential because I am using it as a musical instrument. But often times, I have guests joining me on stream via Zoom. To use Zoom with them, I need to monitor my mic into my VB-CABLE Output. Right now, if I want the guests to hear me, I can't use my iPad as an instrument, and if I'm using the iPad as an instrument, they can't hear me. I can manually switch the monitoring device from Settings, but it takes too long and I don't physically have a way to use a mouse comfortably from where I'm sitting, surrounded by instruments. Of course, I can just select a different mic input for my Zoom call, but then my guests can't hear the iPad sound.)
 
It's not in my wheelhouse so I can't say it's perfect or give a tutorial, but look into AutoHotKey. It might be a hack solution, but theoretically it should point you in the right direction at the very least.
 
Thank you so much! That's kind of exactly what I was thinking of. I'll spend some time investigating that!

(If anybody else has any other ideas, do let me know!)
 
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