Monitor Input Keys for Windows

Switch your monitor's input from a Stream Deck key

To switch your monitor's input from a Stream Deck, add Monitor Input Keys for Windows and put one key per input (HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C) on your Stream Deck. Press the key and the monitor changes input through the video cable over DDC/CI, so you don't open the monitor's on-screen menu and you need no extra hardware.

Get it on the Elgato Marketplace

Stream Deck plugin · Works on Windows 10 or later with the Stream Deck app 6.9 or later. Needs a monitor with DDC/CI turned on in its menu.

What you can do

• Switch to a set input with one key: DisplayPort 1 or 2, HDMI 1 or 2, USB-C, DVI, VGA, or any input code you enter.
• Step through the inputs you pick with a single Cycle Inputs key. Handy when a laptop or a console shares your screen.
• See where the monitor is: the key shows the current input when the monitor reports it, and a green border when the monitor is on that key's input.
• Switch only when you mean to: by default the first press shows the target input and a second press within 3 seconds switches. You can set a key to switch on the first press.
• Control several monitors: each key picks its monitor from a list.
• Know what happened: after a switch the key says whether the monitor confirmed it or disconnected, and it tells you when a monitor does not answer DDC/CI.
• Runs entirely on your PC, with no account and no online service. It writes only the input setting, no other monitor setting.
• English and Japanese.

How it works

1. Install the plugin from the Elgato Marketplace. In the Stream Deck app, drag Switch Input onto a key.
2. In the key's settings, choose the monitor and the input to switch to.
3. Press the key, then press again within 3 seconds. The monitor switches to that input.

The plugin sends the switch over DDC/CI, the control channel inside the video cable that most desktop monitors have.

Get Monitor Input Keys for Windows on the Elgato Marketplace

Questions

Limits

• The monitor must support DDC/CI. Laptop screens do not, and many docks, adapters, KVM switches and DisplayLink connections do not pass it on.
• Over DisplayPort and USB-C the monitor usually disconnects after it switches away, so switching back is done from the other device or with the monitor's buttons.
• A monitor on a duplicated display (Duplicate these displays) is not switched; use Extend.
• Windows only (Windows 10 or later). Not for Mac.