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title: "DeckCal"
description: "A Stream Deck plugin that turns a key into a live countdown to your next Google Calendar meeting, with a press to join it."
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/projects/deckcal"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Projects"
group: "Personal projects"
website: "https://deckcal.ewels.co.uk/"
github: "https://github.com/ewels/deckcal"
elgato_marketplace: "https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/deckcal-a5a9520a-6091-4d5f-ab75-e199f5b7d3d7"
---

# DeckCal

> A Stream Deck plugin that turns a key into a live countdown to your next Google Calendar meeting, with a press to join it.

[**DeckCal**](https://deckcal.ewels.co.uk/) is a [Stream Deck](https://www.elgato.com/stream-deck) plugin that turns a key into a live indicator for your Google Calendar.

The key counts down to your next meeting, or shows the time remaining in the one you're in, with a progress bar across the top, a yellow fill in the last few minutes before it starts, and a footer band for out-of-office or focus-time overlaps. Press the key to join the meeting.

## Multi-key sweep

Place several countdown keys next to each other and the yellow imminent-fill bar sweeps across them as a single band in the last few minutes before a meeting — a much more visible cue than a single key can give on its own.

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![A Stream Deck flashing NOW across five keys as a meeting starts](https://phil.ewels.co.uk/images/projects/deckcal_marketplace_2.jpg)

![A green in-meeting bar spanning four Stream Deck keys, the middle one reading 18m until the end of a meeting](https://phil.ewels.co.uk/images/projects/deckcal_marketplace_3.jpg)

## Features

- **Live countdown and progress bar.** Time remaining to (or within) a meeting, with a coloured bar that fills as the meeting elapses.
- **Press to join.** Pressing opens the current Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams meeting. Long press opens the meeting's first attached doc.
- **Multiple Google accounts.** Sign in with one or more accounts and tick exactly which calendars feed the countdown.
- **Special events.** Out-of-office and focus-time events get their own footer band so you can still see your next regular meeting.

Install DeckCal from the [Elgato Marketplace](https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/deckcal-a5a9520a-6091-4d5f-ab75-e199f5b7d3d7). Screenshots of every key state and the privacy policy are on the [DeckCal website](https://deckcal.ewels.co.uk/). The source code is on [GitHub](https://github.com/ewels/deckcal).

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt