Streaming how-tos

Set up your stream

How To Complete First-Time Setup

Connect your streaming platforms and complete the initial SheevChat setup.

Importing Data from Other Bots

Import commands and data from supported streaming bots or an existing SheevChat backup.

Action Builder and Action Sequences

Learn how actions, sequences, pauses, variables, and destinations work throughout SheevChat.

How to Create a Custom Twitch Chat Command

Learn how to make a custom Twitch chat command. Build and test a !socials reply, then set permissions, cooldowns, and optional actions.

Creating Automations

React automatically to chat, stream, platform, and imported application events.

Creating Timers

Schedule rotating messages and action sequences using time and chat-activity rules.

Creating a SheevPad Control Panel

Build a customizable SheevPad control panel with grouped buttons and action sequences.

How To Save SheevPad as a Mobile App

Install the browser-based SheevPad control panel on an iPhone, iPad, or Android home screen.

Setting Up Mobile / Tablet Light

Pair a phone or tablet with SheevChat and create saved remote-control views.

How To Connect TikTok LIVE and Send Chat

Connect TikTok LIVE, enable automatic reconnection, and send supported SheevChat messages safely.

How To Connect Multiple YouTube Livestreams

Connect additional active YouTube livestreams by video ID or URL and manage their combined chat.

How To Connect X Broadcast Chat

Connect an X broadcast to SheevChat and understand its receive-only participation features.

Automate chat and stream events

Ad Break Start / End Announcement

Create automatic chat announcements for the beginning and end of Twitch ad breaks.

Birthday Shoutouts

Automatically celebrate viewers when they chat on a saved birthday.

How To Create a VIP Shoutout Command

Create a VIP-or-higher shoutout command using target profile and stream variables.

How To Create and Use Viewer Counters

Create persistent viewer counters and update them through commands, automations, or actions.

How To Create Automations from Imported App Events

Trigger SheevChat automations from event streams supplied by installed Marketplace applications.

How To Create a Daily Channel Point Check-In

Build a once-per-stream Twitch Channel Point check-in using automations and viewer counters.

Welcome Back Message

Create a once-per-stream welcome-back message for returning viewers.

How To Create Random and List-Based Chat Commands

Create randomized chat commands using number ranges, saved lists, viewer variables, aliases, and cooldowns.

How To Connect Channel Point Rewards to Actions

Connect a Twitch Channel Point reward to chat, media, TTS, counters, song requests, webhooks, or action sequences.

How To Create a Timed Camera Redeem

Create a Channel Point reward that temporarily shows a camera source or switches to a camera scene before restoring the stream.

How To Pause Music During Stream Events

Pause song-request playback during raids, alerts, announcements, or other stream events and resume it afterward.

How To Trigger Marketplace Widgets from Commands

Trigger an interactive Marketplace Item widget from a permission-controlled Custom Command.

How To Create TikTok Event Automations

React to TikTok LIVE follows, shares, likes, questions, subscriptions, and finalized gifts with Automations.

How To Configure and Use Text-to-Speech

Configure system, Piper, or Kokoro voices and use text-to-speech in chat, actions, and overlays.

How To Create Walk-On Sounds

Play a personal walk-on sound when a specific returning viewer sends their first chat message of the stream.

How To Control Windows Audio with Actions

Control Windows volume, mute state, and default playback or input devices through SheevChat actions.

How To Create Twitch Polls and Predictions

Create Twitch polls and predictions from Commands, Automations, Timers, or SheevPad and manage their results in SheevChat.

How To Create and Use Stream Info Presets

Save reusable stream titles, categories, and platform destinations, then apply them from Action Builder.

How To Use SheevChat A.I. Features

Connect SheevChat A.I., choose a Bot Voice, and configure every automatic and Action Builder feature.

How to Set Up Automatic Twitch Raid Shoutouts

Set up automatic Twitch raid shoutouts in SheevChat. Use an Incoming raid trigger, send Twitch’s native shoutout, and check cooldowns.

Manage chat and community

Creating and Running Giveaways

Create and run keyword, ticket, loyalty, or watched-stream Giveaways.

Getting Started with Loyalty Points

Reward viewers with a customizable loyalty currency for activity and stream support.

How To Set Up Song and Media Requests

Configure Spotify or browser-native YouTube song requests, approvals, playback, and queues.

How To Add, Import, and Manage Quotes

Save memorable chat messages as quotes, use quote commands, and import or manage a quote library safely.

How To Use Trivia

Configure and run timed chat trivia with optional loyalty rewards.

How To Manage Birthdays

Configure birthday formats and manage birthdays saved by community members.

How To Pin Chat Messages

Pin important chat messages across SheevChat, docks, mobile, and moderator views.

Local Chat Translation

Set up offline chat translation and check supported incoming languages and reading targets.

How To Find and Start Raids

Discover, review, and raid suitable live Twitch or Kick channels with SheevChat Raid Finder.

How To Create Twitch Clips

Create Twitch clips from chat or Action Builder and optionally post the finished clip link.

How To Select Random Viewers

Select eligible current-session viewers with variables while honoring platform identity, bot tags, and viewer opt-outs.

How To Install and Use Marketplace Chat Games

Find, install, configure, and safely run chat-game packages from the SheevChat Marketplace.

Build overlays and control OBS

How To Use Overlays and Docks

Add SheevChat browser sources and private control docks to streaming software.

How To Build an Overlay with Overlay Builder

Build reusable multi-widget browser-source layouts with Overlay Builder.

How To Create and Trigger Custom Alerts

Create alert presets and trigger them from stream events or Action Builder.

How To Use the Media Library

Upload, organize, tag, and reuse media across SheevChat features.

Stream Credits

Track stream events and display an editable end-of-stream Credits overlay.

How To Set Up Overlay Audio

Route TTS and Media Library audio through any active Overlay Builder browser source.

How To Set Up Viewer Clips and the Clip Overlay

Accept viewer clip links, download them safely, and play them through an OBS overlay.

How To Use Master Overlay and OBS Scene Automations

Use one OBS browser source while automations switch complete Overlay Builder layouts.

How To Connect and Control Streamlabs Desktop

Connect Streamlabs Desktop and control scenes, sources, audio, and output from SheevChat.

How To Create a Complete Game Launch Button

Create a SheevPad button that changes scenes and overlays, updates the stream category, and launches a game.

How To Create a Go-Live SheevPad Button

Create a guarded SheevPad sequence that prepares the starting scene and overlay before beginning a stream.

How To Match Overlay Fades to Scene Transitions

Match Master Overlay fades to OBS Studio or Streamlabs Desktop scene transitions to prevent visible snapping.

How To Connect and Control OBS Studio

Connect SheevChat to OBS WebSocket and use OBS scenes, sources, browser refreshes, and output controls in actions.

Control your stream remotely

Dual PC Setup

Connect SheevChat browser sources and controls across a two-computer streaming setup.

How To Set Up the Remote Mod Dashboard

Give trusted moderators a paired LAN dashboard for chat and moderation controls.

How To Use SheevPad with Stream Deck

Map saved SheevPad action sequences to persistent Stream Deck keys using the separate SheevChat plugin.

Import, back up, and configure

How To Back Up, Export, and Restore SheevChat Data

Back up, export, migrate, merge, and restore SheevChat configuration and viewer data.

Changing an In-Use Port

Resolve local port conflicts and update SheevChat browser-source and remote URLs.

How To Import StreamElements Custom Widgets

Import a trusted StreamElements custom widget into SheevChat Overlay Builder.

How To Manage Filtered Accounts

Exclude bot, service, or alternate accounts from selected SheevChat features and commands.

How To Change SheevChat's Config Storage Folder

Move SheevChat configuration files to a stable folder and inspect configuration health.

How To Find, Install, and Manage Marketplace Packages

Find, install, configure, update, troubleshoot, and remove Marketplace packages.

How To Manage Third-Party Dependencies

Install and manage optional yt-dlp, FFmpeg, MPV, Piper, and Kokoro tools.

How To Set Up Built-In Chat Moderation

Configure SheevChat's built-in chat rules, exemptions, enforcement, and escalation.

How To Format and Bulk Import Random Lists

Format CSV, JSON, or text files and safely bulk import weighted random lists through Data Manager.

More guides and troubleshooting

How To Customize Chat Display and Emotes

Customize chat indicators, badges, emote providers, username colors, and reply context.

How To Customize SheevChat Themes and Accessibility

Choose or create an app theme and configure shared readability and accessibility options.

How To Show Image and GIF Previews in Chat

Show safe image and GIF previews in SheevChat while controlling app and broadcast-overlay visibility separately.

How To Understand Viewer Totals and Seen Users

Understand SheevChat's combined live viewer totals and the difference between live counts and recently seen chatters.

How To Manage Private Viewer Nicknames and Notes

Save private viewer nicknames and notes without exposing them to chat, overlays, or public integrations.

Why Is My YouTube Live Chat Not Showing?

Fix missing YouTube Live chat. Check the active broadcast and audience settings, switch from Top Chat, and diagnose missing chat replay.

OBS Says Streaming but Kick Is Offline. What Should I Check?

OBS says streaming but Kick still shows offline? Check your title and category, stream URL and key, encoder settings, and public channel.

Why Can't I Find a TikTok LIVE Stream Key for OBS?

Find your TikTok LIVE options for OBS. Use a stream key with OBS or Aitum, or check sign-in access in Streamlabs Desktop and SE.Live.