Carousel: Control
People ask this as
- how do i spin the carousel without leaving the stream
- i need to see the pool without opening the carousel page
- the spin button on the dashboard does nothing
- i pressed reset on the tile and it wiped everything without asking
- where do i see which cards came up
- the tile has no gear
What this page is
Carousel: Control is a dashboard tile that keeps the carousel in front of you while you stream: the pool as it stands, what is queued, and a button to spin right now. Add it from the dashboard while editing — Edit → Add module → pick it from the list. Setting the carousel up is done on the Carousel page; this tile is for running it.
How to set it up
- The tile fills itself as soon as the carousel module is running — there is nothing to switch on and no gear on the header, because it has no settings of its own.
- The bar across the top is the pool, with the figures written on it as collected and target in your base currency.
- Under the bar are up to three chips. queue is how many spins are waiting; the second says whether the carousel is on automatic or by button; a third appears only while an idle discount is running and shows how much is being taken off.
- Spin starts a spin at once, even with the bar half empty. While the ribbon is moving the button is greyed out and reads Spinning… — a second press cannot be lost, because there is nothing to press.
- Reset clears the pool and the queue of spins. It also puts a raised target back to the base amount and switches off a running discount.
- Below the buttons is the list of the last cards that came up, newest first, each with the time it happened and a coloured edge marking how rare it was. Before the first spin it reads "Nothing has come up yet".
- A refusal from the engine appears as a red strip along the bottom of the tile for a few seconds, with the reason on it.
What it cannot do
- Reset does not ask. The same button on the Carousel page confirms first; here one press is enough, and there is no undo. Give the tile room on the panel so it is not hit by accident.
- Spin does nothing at all when there are no cards to draw — nothing appears, and no error is shown either.
- Money cannot be added from the tile. Putting an amount into the pool by hand is done on the Carousel page.
- The target, the mode, the timings, the discount and the cards are not editable here; the tile shows them and starts spins, nothing more.
- The list of cards that came up shows the last twelve and cannot be cleared, filtered or scrolled further back.
- Amounts are in your base currency, and the tile has no currency of its own.
- The tile does not show the ribbon. What the viewers see is the Carousel overlay, a separate Browser Source in OBS.