P: Add keyboard shortcut for Tethered Capture

Thanks for the helpful and detailed post; just did this and it's great.

Old thread, but here we go. 

To create a keyboard shortcut for teathered capture in Lightroom classic, open up the settings menu for the mac. Go to keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts. Inside they keyboard shortcuts menu, select App Shortcuts. Click on the "+" icon. Navigate to "other" at the bottom of the menu, and select Adobe Lightroom Classic. 

Now, under Menu Title, Write the menu item EXACTLY as it appears. In this case "Start Tethered Capture..." (yes, exactly, including the three dots). Press the keyboard shortcut you want. I use control + opt + command + T. Press done. Now you have a keyboard shortcut to launch tethered capture from within Adobe LR Classic. 

Yes, you are correct. I read the "There is no keyboard shortcut for firing the camera remotely when tethered." and disregarded the rest. Sorry. So F12 is working for triggering the camera but, starting tethered caputre is not possible via keyboard shortcut (at least at the moment). 

"According to the shortcut documentation the key to press is F12. This is working for me."

That entry in the documentation is incorrect, saying "Tethered capture" is assigned F12. But there is no command named "Tethered capture".  There are two relevant commands, File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture and File > Tethered Capture > Trigger Capture. It's the latter that is assigned F12, and it's the former (Start Tethered Capture) that people here are requesting a shortcut.

(Adobe's shortcut documentation is littered with mistakes and omissions -- see here for the best shortcut documentation.)

According to the shortcut documentation the key to press is F12. This is working for me.

Thanks to everyone who pointed me to the Mac System Preferences for keyboard shortcuts!

I agree that LR should allow a keyboard shortcut to be assigned to Start Tethered Capture (as well as all the other commands that don't allow shortcuts).

But while waiting for Adobe to implement this (likely a very long time), you can use System Preferences on Mac and the free utility Autohotkey on Windows to implement a shortcut for Start Tethered Capture.

This post is old but needs to be resurrected. The original thread title comes up when I search for a solution for a keyboard command to "Start Tethering." Back in 2011, @rsphoto wanted the now-existing F12 single-button command to activate taking a photo (Thanks Adobe. Don'd know when you added it, but I love it.) Now I want a key command to activate tethered capturing, something everyone has to use a mouse to navigate to via File>Tethered Capture>Start Tethered Capture. It would be a great time saver. Our cameras often have to be disconnected so we can make auto/manual focus and focus point changes or other steps tehtered capture doesn't control. Sometimes the whole works just keeps crashing for reasons only the Gods understand and we are quitting LrC and starting over to re-establish camera connections. To have an option + Command ___ something or other key command would be amazing.