Question / Help OBS Studio Global Hotkeys not working from second keyboard

Swizzle

New Member
Hey there,

I've googled and searched the forums for this, and while I've seen the answer being "Run OBS as Admin." Problem is that I am running on an Admin user account.

The issue:

I've remapped a second, mini keyboard to be used for all of my OBS hotkeys. Q now equals Ctrl+Alt+NumPad1 which switches from my start scene to my second scene. W equals Ctrl+Alt+NumPad2 which mutes/unmutes my microphone. Etc, etc.

The problem is, when OBS Studio isn't the active Window, the hotkeys on the remapped, secondary keyboard don't respond. When I manually press the keys on my main keyboard, while OBS is still not the active window, they work.

Like I mentioned, my user account on this PC is an Admin user account. Second keyboard won't register the global hotkeys even when I right click on the OBS icon and Run as Admin.

I'm at a loss. I've been trying to work through this for over a week and I still can't figure out why.

Any ideas?
 
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