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How to see the chat yourself during the stream. Installing and configuring Restream Chat for twitch, YouTube and periscope. Adding to OBS Studio

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Online broadcasting computer game implies the output of a chat with viewers and subscribers. The next generation of chat for streamers can be considered the program Restream chat which interacts with such popular streaming platforms as twitch and YouTube. The initial setup of the chat in this program will take a little time.

Restream Chat - installation method

To start installing and configuring the chat, first you need to register on the very famous service for streamers -.

Registration is simple, like on all other sites. After registration, confirm it on your mailbox, so you will have access to all the functions of the site. Now you are in the menu for managing yours. There are over 30 streaming methods available to you, including the most popular Twitch and YouTube. Now you need to download Restream Chat on this site and start setting up.

Restream Chat download and pre-configuration

Setting up a chat begins with adding a channel on which you are going to stream - Twitch and YouTube or other platforms.

1. Add a channel and download Restream Chat. To do this, go to the "Chat" tab.

2. To connect the chat to the Twitch and YouTube services, the channels connected to the restream must be turned on, the switches are in the "On" position

3. Start the chat. Now you can watch the counter of the connected viewers "number 1" and services "number 2", settings "number 3", the choice on which site (lower block) to answer and many other additional features.

Setting up Restream Chat on PC

The first tab in the program settings section is tab "Accounts" where you enter the selected site. Logging into your account in this section will give you the opportunity to respond to your viewers, otherwise you will only view messages, without the ability to respond.

In the "Filters" tab words that will be automatically blocked by the system are indicated, respectively, the streamer will not see them. The necessary words are indicated in the "Filter words" field, you can also specify phrases.

  1. You can make the specified words are marked with asterisks, this is the checkbox “Don`t delete message. Replace bad word with asterisks. "
  2. You can leave messages in their original form, they will not be visible to the streamer (in the program itself) - this is the checkbox "Hide message in App Window".
  3. Hide messages on the web site and on the stream itself a checkmark - "Hide message in Web UI"

There are options for displaying private messages. The "Whisoer display" field is responsible for this. When you specify a marker in the "Show in App Window" field, they will be displayed in the program window, in the second case, "Show in Web UI", they will be visible to everyone on the stream and on the website.

Regarding the "Permission" field, then there you can select a site or a specific user whose messages will be shown in the program window or on the stream. This field is for defining permissions. For example, in "Platforms" youtube is selected and in "Permissions" checkboxes are set for "Message in app window", "Message in web UI" and Post Images, respectively, messages will be shown both in the program and on the site (stream), and will also be displayed images sent. This is necessary in order to, for example, hide the annoying user for this:

  1. Select the platform from which the user writes to "Platforms";
  2. Enter his nickname in the "Users and groups" column in the "Username" field;
  3. And we hide it, for example, only from the program window by unchecking the "Message in app window" item so that it does not bother you under a different nickname.

Chat display is configured in Appearance tab.

  1. To display the chat on top of all windows, check the box "Windows always on top", now you can see messages during the game.
  2. “Enable transparency” activates the transparency settings of the program window and messages available under the “Opacity” item and also activates the “Click-through window” option.
  3. "Use GPU (not recommended)" is set when the chat slows down - in this case it will be processed by the video card, but the developers do not recommend doing this.
  4. Show in taskbar - displays the program icon in taskbare.
  5. Show viewers counter - show the number of viewers.

The next section "Click-Through Mode" allows you to control the chat only by pressing the "Ctrl" button (or any other key that you specify, remember it otherwise you simply will not get into the program settings), the chat will not respond to pressing.

The next "Opacity" field controls the transparency of the window and messages - these are the "Window" and "Message" sliders. The last field "Font Size" controls the font sizes of messages, nicknames and time.

In the "Notifications" tab the volume of the notification sound is selected. The user selects a sound for notification on his computer or from those supplied with the program in the Documents → RestreamChat → Sounds folder. If you have chosen your melody, set its maximum duration using the "Idle time" slider

  1. The first checkbox "Notify about new message" will set notifications for each message,
  2. "Notify if my nickname mentioned in message" - only when the user's nickname is mentioned.
  3. "Notify on keyword" - when mentioned keyword.
  4. The last checkmark in the "Text to speech" field is used to convert text into voice speech.

Concerning tabs "Embed chat in stream", then it contains a link, by copying which, it will be possible to embed the chat in a separate site and on the stream. You can select in the "Settings" field:

  1. "Theme" - the topic of the chat.
  2. "Message background opacity" - transparency of message windows.
  3. "Chat background opacity" - the transparency of the background.
  4. "Scale" - the scale of messages.
  5. “Hide message after” - time of disappearance of received messages (0 seconds - messages will not disappear).

Under "Bot" it means an automatic response to a user's request.

1. The first checkbox "Enable bot" will enable the bot.
2. The second checkbox "Enable message relay between all chats" will enable you to send messages to all chats.
3. The "Voice commands recognition" checkbox is designed to activate the bot by voice commands.

The bot setup looks like this:

  1. The button "New Action" is pressed.
  2. If Send Message is selected by default in the first Action Type field, it means sending a message after sending a code word from the user.
  3. The second field "Description for! Help" indicates the description of the command (the description is made exclusively for oneself, which will mean this action).
  4. In "Message text" - the displayed message in the chat.
  5. On the right, "Triggers and conditions" indicates how often this message is displayed. This is the Repeat slider.
  6. In the "Chat command" field, the command itself is set (specify with the "!" Symbol to avoid confusion).
  7. In the "Voice command" field there is a voice message.
  8. "Trigger on keyword" indicates the word that the command will also trigger (keep the case in mind, so the word "hello" and "Hello" for the bot are 2 different words)

In the "Action Type" field, you can specify "Send random text from the list" - the message will be random, that is, it will be randomly selected from the specified list (you can use it for greeting for example: hello bro, hello people, hi hi bro, etc. , and if you specify hello% nick%, then the bot will also indicate the nickname of the one who greeted). The text can also be taken from the text file "Send text file content". By sending a command or a keyword from the user, a script, link or program - "Run application / script or URL" can be opened.

Web server (deprecated) tab there is advanced customization of the chat, that is, you can choose:

  1. "Message show" - the effect of the appearance of the text.
  2. "Message hide" - the effect of disappearing text.
  3. "Message alignment" - the direction in which messages appear (top or bottom).
  4. "Hide message after" - the time the text disappears.
  5. "Max messages" - the limit for the number of messages.

All changes are automatically entered into a dynamic link that can be used for streaming, do not forget to check the "Enable" checkbox.

In the "Export" tab you can choose how the chat is saved.

  1. The first checkbox "Save chat in image" is for saving to images.
  2. The second checkbox "Save chat in text file" is for the chat history to a text file.
  3. You can also save the number of viewers on the stream to a text file. This is the "Save viewer counters to .txt files" checkbox.

Profile Tab contains one button "Logout", useful when you need to change the restream.io profile.

The last tab "About" contains only the version number of the program, the version of the program when writing the article is 2.2.1.38 beta.

Restream Chat - simplicity and convenience for a streamer

This chat is very easy and simple to configure, both for twitch and for YouTube. This is thanks to the specially created website Restream.io. Chat automatically connects to your account on any of the 30 platforms that are available for streaming. The program itself is very practical and, as you can see, has a huge number of settings. Each user can customize the program personally for himself and use it as it is convenient for him. You can use it on several profiles at once and respond from any convenient site. All the features and functions of the chat make it irreplaceable for any novice streamer, as well as an experienced one.

You need a high-quality and convenient chat for streaming, Restream Chat will be the right choice.

It is difficult to imagine many YouTube streams without a chat, where users share their thoughts, exchange opinions, express wishes and criticism. At the same time, the organization of such a chat can become a significant problem, since many of the streamers are not sufficiently familiar with the corresponding YouTube interface(as well as the interface of the relevant streaming software "Open Broadcasting Software"). To learn how, go to the corresponding article. And in this material I will try to help users, and will tell you in detail how to organize a chat for streaming on YouTube, and what tools will help us with this.

The organization of a chat in a stream on your YouTube channel means that you already have a previously configured stream in your account, as well as the OBS program installed on your PC, which is associated with your Youtube account.

The organization of a chat on YouTube is as follows:

  • Activating the chat in your YouTube channel and receiving the corresponding link to the chat;
  • Adding the source “BrowseSource” to “OBS”, into the settings of which the link we received is entered;
  • Go to the external resource chatv2.septapus.com, where the "Chat v2.0 Style Generator" is located, thanks to which the chat is configured and the CSS data is copied;
  • Inserting the specified СSS data into the corresponding window of the "OBS" program (the appearance of the chat changes in the way we need).

At the same time, I note that this way more relevant than other analogs, since for many external chats that need to be downloaded and installed on a PC, a source in OBS is needed, called the CLR-browser, which in latest versions OBS is missing, being replaced by "BrowseSource".

We use the capabilities of "OBS" and "Youtube" to create a chat

How to create a chat to stream on YouTube

So, in order to form a chat for a stream, I recommend doing the following:


Now go to the "OBS" program, and in the main window create a new source by clicking on the plus sign, selecting "BrowseSource".

Select "BrowserSource" in "OBS" Sources

A window for creating a new source will open, name it "Chat" and click on "OK", the source settings window will open. In the “URL” column, insert the link you received earlier on YouTube, and click “Ok”.

A chat window will appear in the window, but it will be rather rude appearance, and even with a white background, asynchronous with the black background of the screen itself. How can the situation be changed? Let's turn to the capabilities of the chatv2.septapus.com site.

How to download chat for stream

The capabilities of the chatv2.septapus.com site allow you to flexibly customize your chat on YouTube, as well as visually check how this chat will look on your channel. After making all the chat settings (I will describe how to do them in the next section), you will need to go to the very bottom of the page of this site, and copy the code located in the field called "CSS".

Then you will need to go to "OBS", hover over the source we created earlier called "chat", press the right mouse button, and select "Properties". In the window that opens, you will need to find the "CSS" field, delete its existing content, and then paste the CSS code there, which we previously copied on the chatv2.septapus.com site.

Setting up chat for streaming

As I wrote above, the capabilities of the chatv2.septapus.com site allow you to make a fairly flexible configuration of the chat window and its contents. At the same time, you will clearly see all the changes you make.

In particular, chat settings are divided into Fonts, Avatars, Channel names, Messages, Timestamps, Backgrounds background), SuperChat / Fan Funding / Sponsors (Super Chat / Donations, Sponsors), Animation (Animation), and, in fact, CSS (the language for describing the appearance of our chat).

Accordingly, you can change the size of the letters (size), select different fonts (fonts) for displaying text, the color of these fonts, and so on.

After choosing the necessary settings, do not forget to copy the CSS code, and transfer it to the OBS program, as I mentioned above.

Conclusion

In this article, I considered a way to create a chat for chatting to stream on YouTube, and what is the sequence of actions for organizing this chat. I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that all visual chat settings are made on the chatv2.septapus.com website, and the resulting CSS-code is inserted into the corresponding field of the OBS program settings. Use the method given by me, and the specified chat will delight you with its functionality throughout the many broadcasts you have performed.

In contact with

Because previous way, described here, no longer works, we will use the new one and connect our chat using free software TwoRatChat for this, download the program from the link

After downloading the archive, unpack it into a folder, we call the folder, for example, the name of the TwoRatChat program itself

In the folder we are looking for the file TwoRatChat.Main, click on it 2 times, if you did everything correctly, the program window will start.

TwoRatChat

  1. Press the right mouse button on the program window, select the item "Add chat source:"
  2. Select in the item "Chat source:" -> http://www.twitch.tv/
  3. In the streamer nickname field: write the nickname you use on Twitch
  4. We go to the settings, put a tick in front of the item "On top of all windows:"

After completing the 4th item, it will allow us to display the chat on top of the game, but remember the chat is displayed only if the game is running in windowed mode, if the game does not have this option, in order to read the chat during the game, you will need a 2nd monitor.

We test the chat, go to the twitch, go to our channel, write an arbitrary message to the chat, it works.

Detailed setting will not cause you any difficulties. The program in Russian is worth mentioning only how to visually configure the program:

  1. Press the right mouse button on the chat field, select "Skin designer (alpha) ..."
  2. In the window that appears, click on the word "Skin"
  3. We knock out the item " New design based on template "
  4. In the "Template:" field, select "TwoRatChat default template" and click "Open and edit"
  5. We configure how you need everything there in Russian

OBS Studio

There are 2 ways to add to OBS Studio:

Method 1

TwoRatChat

  1. Click on the program field right click mouse and select "Settings".
  2. In the settings, click on the blue button next to the item "Save chat as a picture".
  3. We indicate the path to the file, for example, on the desktop, we indicate the name, for example, chat.

Adding to OBS Studio

  1. Run the program
  2. Right-click on the sources field and select "Add" -> "Image"
  3. In the properties of the image source, click the "Browse" button and select our saved image
  4. Now you can place a chat anywhere on the stream
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