MuteDeck

Control and monitor the MuteDeck desktop application from Bitfocus Companion.

MuteDeck checks and controls your status across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, StreamYard, Riverside.fm, Discord and many other apps. When it does not recognise your conferencing app, it falls back to controlling the system mute, so the controls keep working everywhere.

Quick start

1. Make sure the MuteDeck desktop app is running (download from https://mutedeck.com). The default connection settings (localhost, port 3492) work out of the box.
2. Open the Presets tab, find MuteDeck buttons, and drag the buttons you want onto your page.

That's it. The preset buttons use the MuteDeck icons, update live with your call state (red when muted or recording, green when your camera or screen share is on), and grey out whenever MuteDeck is not running — so you can always see at a glance whether the connection is up. The MuteDeck status preset gives you a dedicated Connected/Offline indicator button.

Requirements

• The MuteDeck desktop app must be installed and running on the machine you want to control.
• This module talks to MuteDeck over its local WebSocket API (default ws://localhost:3492).

Configuration

Field	Description
MuteDeck host	Hostname or IP where MuteDeck is running. Usually localhost.
MuteDeck port	MuteDeck WebSocket port. Default 3492.

The connection status is also shown on the Connections page. If it shows a connection failure, make sure MuteDeck is running and the host/port match.

Presets

• MuteDeck buttons — complete ready-to-use buttons: microphone, camera, screen share, recording, leave meeting, and a connection status indicator.
• MuteDeck extras — push-to-talk (unmutes while held), bring the call app to the front, and a custom action button.

Actions

Action	Description
Microphone: mute / unmute	Toggle, force mute, or force unmute.
Camera: start / stop	Toggle, turn on, or turn off your camera.
Screen share: start / stop	Toggle, start, or stop sharing.
Recording: start / stop	Toggle, start, or stop recording.
Leave meeting	Leave the current meeting.
Bring call app to front	Bring the active conferencing app to the foreground.
Trigger custom action	Run a custom action defined in MuteDeck. Pick a discovered action from the dropdown or type its name.
Refresh custom action list	Re-fetch the list of custom actions from MuteDeck.

Feedbacks

Live icon feedbacks (used by the presets, zero configuration): show the matching MuteDeck icon and colour for the current microphone, camera, screen share, or recording state, and grey the button out while not connected to MuteDeck.

Boolean feedbacks for building your own styles:

• Microphone state — muted / unmuted / no microphone
• Camera state — on / off / disabled
• Screen share state — on / off / disabled
• Recording state — on / off / disabled
• Call state — in a call / not in a call / disabled
• MuteDeck connection — connected or not

Variables

State variables (e.g. $(mutedeck:mute_status)) and friendly label variables (e.g. $(mutedeck:mute_label)) are available for microphone, camera, share, recording and call, plus $(mutedeck:connected) and $(mutedeck:connected_label) (Connected / Offline).