# Suggestion for making Start / Stop Recording Hotkey as different keys

**URL:** <https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345>\
**Category:** Logic 2 Software\
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345 "2025-04-08T05:51:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sabisun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@sabisun](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/sabisun)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345/1 "2025-04-08T05:51:22Z")

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The start and stop capture hotkey are the same in current version (v2.4.22).  
We are writing our own automation tool via hotkey currently.  
if start and stop capture are the same hotkey, this makes our automation tool malfunction.  
Hope you can make start and stop into different hotkeys.  
if user can config the hotkeys, that would be more user friendly.  
Thank you!

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**Author:** ![timreyes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discuss.saleae.com/timreyes/32/108_2.png) [@timreyes](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/timreyes)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345/2 "2025-04-09T01:21:00Z")

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@sabisun Thanks for reaching out! Have you considered using our Python Automation API built specifically for automating functions of our software? Our documentation can be found below, and includes separate functions for starting and stopping the capture.

> **[Saleae Logic 2 Automation Interface Documentation — Saleae 1.0.6 documentation](https://saleae.github.io/logic2-automation/)**

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**Author:** ![sabisun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@sabisun](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/sabisun)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345/3 "2025-04-09T02:18:01Z")

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> [@timreyes](#):
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> Python Automation API

Dear Tim:

Thanks for your reply, our needs require to write one tool for start capture, another tool for stop capture.  
for current Python Automation API, start and stop capture require to be in the same tool (capture handle can not pass to another tool), thus why we have to use hotkey instead.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![timreyes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discuss.saleae.com/timreyes/32/108_2.png) [@timreyes](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/timreyes)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345/4 "2025-04-10T01:05:12Z")

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@sabisun That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying that, and sorry our Automation API wouldn’t work well in this case.

We’re currently tracking all feedback related to customizing keyboard shortcuts below. I’ve added a comment for you with regards to separating out Start and Stop keyboard shortcuts so we can track your need for that.

> **[Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts & Feedback - Logic 2 - Ideas and Feature...](https://ideas.saleae.com/b/feature-requests/customizable-keyboard-shortcuts-feedback/)**
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> I'd like to consolidate all feedback with regards to keyboard shortcuts.
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> Ideally, we'd love to make them completely customizable, and provide the user with a way to tailor their keyboard experience with our app.
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> Let us know any specific feed

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**Author:** ![Teddyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Teddyz](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/Teddyz)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/suggestion-for-making-start-stop-recording-hotkey-as-different-keys/3345/5 "2026-09-02T16:07:30Z")

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Hi,

I upvoted this one because I also want to be able to know if I start or stop the capture. Most important is to stop so I don’t miss the interesting part from my nightly test where I managed to prove something went wrong.

If there are more clever ways to interact with vector Canoe I would appreciate them 🙂