Control panel: one window while you are live

Why a panel at all

Settings pages are for before the stream. During it you have one hand free and about two seconds of attention, and that is a different interface.

• Tiles are laid out the way you want, and several named layouts can be kept side by side.
• A page stays loaded when you switch away from it, so the chat feed does not start from empty every time.
• Modules bring their own tiles: install the auction and its tiles appear in the tile catalogue.

The events feed

One column with everything that happened, in the order it happened — so a donation missed mid-fight is still there when you look up.

• Donations, subscriptions, rewards and bits from every connected platform.
• Filters by event type and by platform, when the feed gets too busy to scan.
• Subscriptions are split into the cases platforms confusingly call by one word: a free follow, a paid subscription with its tier, a renewal with the month count, and a gift with the giver’s name.

The chat tile

Chat from every connected platform in one column, with a box to answer without leaving the panel.

• Tick the platforms your reply should go to. Tick nothing and it goes to every connected chat — which is not the same as ticking all of them, because a platform you add later is included too.
• The choice is remembered per tile, so one tile can answer on Twitch and another on YouTube.
• Scrolling up to read something older does not get yanked back down by every new message.

The viewer counter

A small tile that answers the question you glance at most often.

• A row per platform — Twitch, YouTube, Kick — plus the total.
• “Offline” and zero mean different things and are shown differently: the first is the platform saying there is no stream, the second is us not having heard from it at all.
• Platforms you do not use are switched off in the tile’s own settings, and several tiles can exist with different sets.

What else can live there

The tiles below belong to other sections and appear once those modules are installed.

• Auction: the desk, the lots, the disputed bids, the wheel and the bracket.
• Scenarios: what is running now, and your own named buttons.
• Voice over: the current line, the queue, skip and stop.

What it is made of

Each part is a separate module: you install only the ones you need, and any of them can be removed without breaking the rest.

Getting started

1. Open the control panel, switch to editing and add the tiles you want.
2. Arrange them, rename what needs a clearer name, and create a second layout if one screen is not enough.
3. Set each tile up through the gear in its header — settings are per tile, not global.
4. Install the modules whose tiles you are missing.

Works together with