Like many friends, my system has an Elgato Stream Deck so that I can minimize the needs of using keyboard and memorizing hotkeys. The device had been working pretty well until recently I found it behaving erratic with intermittent non-responding errors when switching profiles.
I tried reinstalling the app and restoring from previous profile backups. I took various ideas and suggestions from the Internet, too. All attempts were futile.
After many weeks of trying, I decided to reinstall everything and create all profiles from scratch again, hoping that would solve the issue.
During re-creating the first few profiles, I eventually found out the real cause behind the non-responding errors that was troubling me. Continue reading