Chat commands

When you’re out with your phone in your hand and both hands busy, the fastest fix is your moderator doing it from chat. That’s what the commands are for.

Cloud OBS only

The commands only work if your automatic scene switching runs on a Cloud OBS. On your local OBS chat is off: no commands and no automatic stop.

First: link your chat

In your server detail, the Scene switching tab, the Chat integration section:

1. Pick the Channel for chat commands — one of your Twitch channels registered under Account. It’s the only platform with commands for now; without a Twitch channel there are no commands.
2. Add your moderators under Chat admins, one by one, with their Twitch username.
3. Save configuration.

If you leave it on — No chat —, there are no commands: bitrate-based scene switching keeps working just as well. Full walkthrough in Setting it up on a Cloud OBS.

The commands

They all take the ! prefix and they all have a short alias, which is the one that ends up getting used live.

Command	Alias	What it does
!fix	!f	Refreshes the feed on the Cloud OBS. This is the one you use when the picture stays stuck even though the bitrate is already back
!switch	!ss	Switches scene by hand, without waiting for the thresholds. It’s typed with the scene name after it
!bitrate	!b	Replies in chat with the bitrate coming in right now

They’re not public commands

The commands answer to your moderators, not to anyone who types them in chat. That’s on purpose: !switch changes what your stream shows and !fix touches your feed. Keep the Chat admins list up to date, especially when someone stops being a mod.

With !switch, the scene name has to match the one in OBS exactly. Otherwise there’s nothing to switch to. Send your moderator the list written the way it actually is.

Twitch: raid and host stop the stream

On Twitch there’s an extra behaviour worth knowing: when you raid or host, the stream stops on its own.

That’s what you want when you’re signing off — you send your people to another channel and your broadcast closes without you touching your phone — but it’s a nasty surprise if you raid mid-stream planning to come back. If you intend to keep streaming afterwards, don’t raid.

And on my local OBS, what do I do?

There are no commands, but there is a better option for a moderator: the control widget. It’s a link that opens the control screen for your OBS without signing in, with scenes, stream and audio. Careful, it gives full control: read that page before you share it.

Next step

• Setting it up on a Cloud OBS — where the chat channel gets linked.
• How it works — what scene switching does with nobody typing anything.
• Going out to your platform — the streaming channels this tab uses.