hi and welcome to the channel i'm machine dana good to see you i hope you're doing really really
well this is another video about streamlabs obs and how you can integrate different modules into
your streaming uh modules on streamlabs obs using the onlineplatformstreamlabs.com
are a wonderful way of being able to get your viewers to engage more with you with your stream
and more importantly to retain the viewers for longer and to get them to interact a little bit
more with each other really really useful by doing just a few small things on your stream therefore
the success of your stream therefore the longevity of your stream and the popularity of your stream
in this video i'm going to be specifically going into uh one of the modules the chat alert module
in this video and the settings that apply for that particular module if you find this video
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without further ado let's get into the module for chat alerts here we've got chat alerts
hopefully by now you've already downloaded streamlabs obs at streamlabs.com you can set
an account up in one minute it can you can log in using your twitch details your twitch login
details or your facebook login or your or your youtube login detail what you first need to do is
make sure that you've got the software of course at desktop application level uh you need to have a
streamlabs account um you can go to cloudbot here enable cloud bot with this particular toggle and
then click on the modules section in this video i'm specifically going to be going into detail
about chat alerts how you use them and how you can configure them and how they work on your stream so
this is getting notified in chat whenever an activity like a donation or a subscription
occurs most of you have probably already seen the alerts that appear when someone follows or donates
on other people's stream and if you've not already got these applied you'll hopefully find this
video in particular very useful so the chat alerts are specifically for getting notifications in chat
whenever an activity happens like a donation or a subscription not to be confused with the alert
box which is more overlays gifs sound effects and so on the alert box widget and overlay
is more of a interactive tool which is not chat based it's actually based on
your screen it just appears wherever you resize it on screen whereas the chat alerts themselves will
appear in chat so that you as the streamer can view that information and know when someone has
followed you or given you bits or whatever and but also more to the point that your your chats uh can
also do the same particularly the person that's just joined the stream and may have followed you
or just given the bits he sees it in chat as well it's almost acts like a confirmation for
those people as well as a reminder to yourself if you happen to have missed it those two are not
particularly related or they are triggered by the same things so if i give bits on someone's stream
alert box will do its thing and give me a gif or some custom text or a noise or whatever uh
cloudbot chat alerts module will actually do something completely different based on the
same trigger but the bits will show in chat with a custom message rather than what the alert was
you can have one or the other or both activated at the same time what we do here first of all we need
to make sure that we have modded stream labs and to do that you simply type forward slash mod space
stream labs in your chat so you can do that on youtube on facebook gaming or on of course twitch
cloudbot itself needs to be enabled with this toggle and then chat alerts needs to be enabled
you then click on preferences you can then choose to turn on or off the alerts for a specific
action for instance you may decide i don't want an alert when someone raids me in which case you
can turn that raid off then you can simply go into every single piece of setting and amend
those settings to your liking so donations you can add a chat alert and you can edit existing
ones first of all for the donation amount set to zero if someone donates basically any other amount
uh this message will be the message that appears so you're configuring specifically the message
that appears on screen right so you can edit this uh just tipped uh for example and amazing and then
so you can add adjectives and so on and so forth you need to make sure that you're leaving these
kind of parameters in place here you can have more parameters if you're kind of experienced
enough to do that i probably wouldn't advise doing that if you're a beginner and it just helps you
to customize the specific message that people see the other thing you can do is that you can specify
a particular amount and a particular message that goes along with that so i might decide if someone
donates specifically seven dollars on my stream i give them a custom message i can save that what
you may just want to quickly do is copy this message here and save it then you can add the
chat alert for xero so for any other donation amount it will be this message that's given but
for seven dollars specifically on your stream you will uh just edit this so it might be just tipped
my lucky number seven and then it'll be the amount in the currency uh good luck to you sir
madam it just allows an extra layer of customization to it you click save on that there
are two now types of messages for donation one that triggers on seven and one that triggers for
basically every other type i'm just going to go ahead and throw that in the bin because i don't
actually want to see that one you can do the same things for following uh this one's a little bit
different here um because this the following is just a straightforward binary thing it's a yes no
thing so someone's either followed or they're not uh you can just customize the message here again
you can turn that on and off with this uh bits you can customize this and again if you want to add
a specific amount bits for example one two three bits you can then add a specific donation message
from that i'll just cancel that for now and just to illustrate the fact to edit this one you can
copy the pre-existing donation message to make sure you're getting all the data
you click you click add new alert if you wanted to add for one two three bits so when people
specifically donate that amount you can then say username has cheered an amount in bits
now this will work particularly well if you also have commands and timers and reminders within
your chat that almost encourage people to donate specific amounts of bits it just increases the
likelihood that your chat's going to feel a little bit more special when they donate the bits because
they'll be getting a more unique experience rather than saying it has just cheered you can
put a custom message in there you would click save on that i'm just going to bin that because again
i don't don't particularly want the custom one for this on my stream with that the uh the bin tool of
course so that's uh that's bits we'll now go into hosts again it's just a host with uh with viewers
so i think setting it to one viewer it'll go one or more i think you can add chat alerts that allow
you if someone does 50 or more viewers there's a more customized version of it that says wow i've
never had that many uh raids before or wow that's a really big amount of people and again you would
copy this text here into your new one here and then every time someone does 50. i think it's
50 or more but it might actually be the specific number um and then you've got two versions of it
just looking at subscriptions if people subscribe with their prime with tier one two and three
you can get custom message for those as well again you can edit the existing ones here
a good thing to do here is i i find is to put emotes and things like that into the notifications
so if you actually add the emotes to standard emotes or even just the the worldwide emotes
that you get uh i'll link a tool that you can use to find emotes i tend to use one called
online tools emojipedia which is uh emojipedia.org you can then search for my standard one is the
robot but obviously machine dana but you can you can search for different emojis and stick them in
your customized messages subscribe description for instance you might want to put a one star two star
and a three star there i really should probably update some of these myself and customise them
raiding okay it's just a custom message for the raid for a specific amount rather than a host
and sub a mystery gift so when people are gifting you can have um especially the mystery ones
rather than somebody can specifically gift to a specific person uh sometimes you can also do it
as a mystery gift and it just selects from the i think it's the most viewed people on stream
would get that so if i if i gift five subscribers to your channel it would give
it to i think either five random viewers or the five biggest viewers that you have in terms of
loyalty um that are not yet subscribed already so you can add customized messages for that
one thing just to also note is that if you want to have alert box on there um what you need to do is
add the alert box to your stream you can get a custom url here which you then need to add via
obs alert box just shows you on stream exactly what those alerts look like and you can customize
those alerts to a more significant degree and when i say a more significant degree you can add gifts
you know custom sound effects you can customize the duration the size of the text
the color of the text transparency all kinds of other stuff on that also volume volume's a key
one like my alerts are always too loud i need to turn them down again this video is not about
alert box so i won't go into too much detail into alert box you can use alert box as a method for
having notifications on screen but they're more concerned with overlays on top of your screen gifs
custom size text a duration a noise perhaps the custom messages and things like that alert box
is slightly different to the cloud bot uh module for chat alerts because the cloudbot chat alerts
module is for notifications in chat whenever an activity happens like a donation or a subscription
i find this particularly useful for other viewers who have perhaps missed something on stream
and they come back 30 seconds or a minute later they can see what's been happening in the stream
particularly like your mods and things are a little bit more loyal that might appreciate other
people perhaps following or perhaps subscribing they might want to know that information but the
biggest use i've found so far for chat alerts by far has been that me myself if i miss something
in the events tab uh or section of streamlabs obs it will show it in chat and because i'm constantly
monitoring the chat and interacting and engaging with the chat of course this gives me a better
level of interaction with the users because i'm more likely to see when someone follows
i'm more likely to see when someone gives bits and various other things so it just gives you and
the viewers chance to interact with whatever has just happened on your stream in line with these
customizable functions here so that's just about it for chat alerts if you have found this useful
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