ACS 5 and ACS Pro on physical keys.

Play, previous / next recording, bookmark, live / recordings, next camera, PTZ presets — and every camera or view you map in AXIS Camera Station. For the AXIS Camera Station 5 and AXIS Camera Station Pro client — same hotkeys, one plugin. Windows natively; on a Mac through Parallels, VMware or Remote Desktop.

Download plugin Source on GitHub

Windows 10+ · macOS 12+ · Stream Deck 6.9+ · one-click install with a ready profile for Mini, MK.2 and XL. Free and open source (MIT). Also on the Elgato Marketplace; this GitHub build adds a Buy me a Ko-fi key.

The three bundled profiles on Stream Deck XL, MK.2 and Mini: playback, navigation, PTZ presets and camera hotkeys for ACS Pro

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ACS runs on hotkeys you control.

AXIS Camera Station — 5 and Pro alike — is driven by keyboard hotkeys — F2 opens the Hotkeys tab where every action gets Ctrl + a key or F2–F12. Axis documents only a few defaults, and "navigate to camera / view" has none. The plugin embraces that:

✓ documented

Sent as Axis defines them

Zoom Ctrl + / −, Help F1, Hotkeys F2, Logs F4, Configuration F5, Auto focus F10, Exit full screen Esc.

suggested

Mirror once in ACS, or edit the key

Play/Pause Ctrl Space, Next recording Ctrl L, Bookmark Ctrl B… In ACS press F2, click the action's keyboard field, press the same combo. Or type your own combo into the key's Hotkey field.

yours

Cameras, views, sequences

Map Ctrl 5 to "Navigate to camera: Lobby" in ACS, make an ACS Hotkey key "Lobby → Ctrl+5". A Stream Deck XL becomes a camera wall selector.

Every key shows the combo it sends in small print. Rules from Axis's Hotkeys chapter of the ACS Pro user manual.

Three actions

29 commands, a free hotkey, and Activate.

The plugin adds a "Deck for AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5" group to the Stream Deck action list.

All key arts: playback, bookmark, export marker, live/recordings, camera / tab / cell navigation, open views, exit full screen, presets 1–4, zoom, focus, auto focus, hotkeys, logs, configuration, help, custom hotkeys, activate

ACS Command · Recordings	Play / pause · previous / next recording · frame step back / forward · add bookmark · export marker · switch live / recordings.
ACS Command · Navigation	Next / previous camera or view · next / previous tab · next / previous cell in split view · open views · exit full screen.
ACS Command · PTZ	Go to preset 1–4 · zoom in / out · focus farther / nearer · auto focus.
ACS Command · System	Hotkeys `F2` · Logs `F4` · Configuration `F5` · Help `F1`.
ACS Hotkey	Any combo, your title, a colour — for everything you map yourself in ACS.
Activate ACS	Brings ACS to the front so the next hotkey lands in it — the client window on Windows, the hosting app (Parallels, VMware, Windows App) on a Mac. Chain it first in a Multi Action.

Combo format Ctrl+Shift+F5: Ctrl / Alt / Shift; A–Z, 0–9, F1–F12, Space, Tab, Esc, Enter, arrows, Plus, Minus and more.

Every deck size

Mini, MK.2, XL — a profile for each.

The installer carries three ready-made profiles — ACS Pro (MK.2, 5×3), ACS Pro Mini (3×2) and ACS Pro XL (8×4) — and Stream Deck installs only the one that matches your device. The XL's bottom row has four camera / view hotkey examples to rename.

Install

Three steps, once.

Download and double-click

com.4xsdev.acs-pro.streamDeckPlugin — Stream Deck asks to install the plugin. It brings the actions and a ready profile for your deck (Mini, MK.2 or XL).

Mirror the combos in ACS

In the ACS client press F2. For each key you use, click the action's keyboard field and press the combo shown on the key — or edit the key to match what ACS already has.

Press Activate, then play

Hotkeys go to the front window. Press Activate ACS (or click into ACS) and the rest of the deck is live.

Limits: the ACS client is a Windows application — on a Mac it runs in Parallels / VMware / Remote Desktop and the plugin sends the combos there (⌃ arrives as Ctrl); the plugin cannot tell whether ACS is focused. Written to Axis's documented hotkey rules but not yet tested against a running ACS client — reports welcome via GitHub issues.

Other Stream Deck plugins.

Physical keys for the tools you already use. All free and open source.