Stream Setup: Alerts

MuxyJared
MuxyATX
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1 min readApr 4, 2016

This tutorial will go over creating Muxy alerts to be displayed by OBS for your stream. Creating a new Alert Package will create a default follow, sub, donation, and host alert all tied to a single URL for OBS.

Muxy Alerts

Create your alerts:

  1. Navigate to your Muxy Alerts page (https://u.muxy.io/dashboard/alertpackages)
  2. Click “Create New Alert Package”.
  3. Use the alert editing to customize your alerts to your liking by adding images, sounds, and text. (If you are comfortable with writing custom HTML/CSS, there are more editing options for you in Advanced mode.)
  4. Repeat this process for any number of alerts and save your changes.

Display your alerts in OBS:

  1. When you are ready to test out an alert package, navigate to your Muxy Alerts page (https://u.muxy.io/dashboard/alertpackages) and copy the URL for that alert package to your clipboard.
  2. Open OBS and click the “+” button and select “BrowserSource”.
  3. Name your Browser Source and then select “OK”.
  4. Paste the Alert Package URL into the BrowserSource URL field. Select “OK” to confirm your changes.
  5. With your BrowserSource selected in the Sources list you can reposition and scale your BrowserSource window to your achieve your desired size and dimensions.

Test your alerts:

  1. Launch the Live Feed (https://u.muxy.io/live) to test and monitor your alerts.
  2. By selecting the event type icons in the upper right corner of the Live Feed you can access the alert type specific menu options, including testing.

For additional alert info visit: https://muxy.uservoice.com/search?filter=articles&query=alerts.

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