Alerts

An alert is the pop-up on stream when someone follows, subs, cheers, raids or tips: a picture, a sound and a line of text. In Cuebot, alerts come from the Alert box widget on one of your overlays.

The Alert box

The Alert box widget shows alerts by itself. You do not need an action for that. Add it to an overlay with Add Cuebot widget > Alert box (see Add widgets).

It has a design for each alert type: Follow, Subscriber, Tip / donation, Cheer (bits), Raid, Super Chat, Kicks, Channel points, YouTube Jewels, Charity donation, Merch and Custom (actions). Each type can have variations, for example a bigger alert for 1000 bits.

Try an alert

Open the alert box's editor (Edit… on its row) and click Test this design. Test events only go to that preview, never to your live overlays.

Pause, skip, mute

The Alerts card on the Overlays page has Pause alerts, Skip alert and Mute alerts. They work for every overlay at once.

Alerts from your own actions

Want an alert for something Cuebot has no alert for, like a !hype command? Add the Show alert sub-action to an action (see How actions work):

• Design: which alert design to use, for example custom.
• Name: who it is about. It starts as %user%.
• Message, Amount, Currency: what the alert says.

Your alert waits its turn behind other alerts, just like a real one. The Pause, skip or mute overlay alerts sub-action can pause, skip or mute alerts from an action, for example while you are on your "BRB" scene.

Mods and alert designs

With the mod portal, you can let mods change each alert's text, picture or video, sound, look and text-to-speech, and turn alerts and their variations on or off.