Chatter Greeting

Says hello to every viewer who arrives. The first time someone writes in your chat, a bubble pops up with their profile picture and your greeting — PixelPanda is in the chat!. With Greet lurkers on, viewers who join without writing are greeted too. Each greeting can also play a sound and post a chat message, and custom greetings welcome newcomers, members of your groups and returning viewers differently.

Platforms: Twitch, YouTube, Kick

Action pack: Stream UI - Get Profile Pic for Twitch pictures, Stream UI - Sounds for sound files, Stream UI - Backend for group greetings, "Back after" greetings and the pause → Pause and resume. Without the pack, greetings still show, without Twitch pictures. See Who needs what.

How it works

• Once per viewer. A viewer is greeted the first time they write (Streamer.Bot's First Words event), then never again until the browser source reloads.
• Lurkers, if you want. Streamer.Bot sends the list of viewers present in chat every few minutes. With Greet lurkers on, anyone new on that list is greeted. The first list after the browser source loads is only noted, without greeting anyone, so a reload never greets your whole chat again.
• Greetings stack. Each one stays for the show duration, then leaves. When more arrive than Greetings on screen allows, the oldest leaves first.
• The chat message goes to the viewer's own chat — a Twitch viewer is welcomed on Twitch, a Kick viewer on Kick.
• Sounds and chat messages come from the overlay that runs the actions, even when another overlay shows the greetings. A single-widget URL only shows them. → Which overlay runs the actions
• When a viewer was last seen is saved. The overlay that runs the actions saves each greeted viewer's visit in their persisted user variable lastSeen (a date and time), 10 seconds after the greeting. That is what Back after greetings read.

The page

The widget's page works like a small app:

• Settings, Style and Controls, the tabs over the editor, switch what it shows.
• The column on the left lists the Settings tab's sections: Display settings, Default greetings, First message ever, User groups and Back after, the last three each with its on/off switch on its row. Click one to edit it in the main area. On the Controls tab, Pause and Resume and their triggers → Pause and resume.
• User groups and Back after open their list beside it — Group list, Threshold list — where you add, reorder, duplicate or delete rows; the picked one is edited in the main area.
• Widget preview, the panel against the window's right edge: the preview, the test buttons and the widget's own URL. The arrow at the top folds it to a slim rail. Drag its left edge to widen it, up to half the window; it keeps its width. Widget shows the widget in its position, cut from the canvas as your browser source draws it; On canvas, the whole canvas.

How to set it up

Settings

Display settings

In two parts: Overlay settings (the first four) and Chatter details (the picture and the icon).

Default greetings

Every greeting — the default one and each custom one — is the same block, in three parts: Overlay greeting, Sound and Chat message.

The texts can use:

Custom greetings

Three kinds, each a row with its own on/off switch (all off by default); a viewer gets the first one switched on that matches, in this order, else the default greeting:

1. First message ever — their first message ever in your channel (Streamer.Bot's First Words flags it). Defaults: Welcome {user}, first time here!, chat message Welcome to the channel {user}!.
2. User groups — the first row of its Group list, top to bottom, whose Streamer.bot group they are in (the row's name, typed in the main area). Add group adds a row. The group is checked by user ID or login, on any platform.
3. Back after — the row of its Threshold list with the most Days away they have reached since their last greeting. Add threshold adds a row (14 days to start with). Defaults: 7 days, Welcome back {user}!; 30 days, {user} is back after {days} days! with the chat message Long time no see {user}!. A viewer with no saved visit yet gets the default greeting.

Each custom greeting has the same block as the default one, plus:

An empty Greeting text template or chat message uses the default one's (the placeholders read Default greeting and Default chat message). Each custom greeting has its own Send a chat message switch.

Style

Each element follows the overlay style field by field: a field you change on the Style tab is the widget's own, with a reset arrow beside it. Every platform can also have its own look: pick it in Style for, beside the Global styles / Custom switch. See Appearance.

Default position

Position Bottom right, as wide as the position, size 100 %. All of that is changed on the Overlay builder's Layout tab.

Pause and resume

While paused, the greetings on screen leave at once and nobody is greeted: no bubble, no sound, no chat message. Viewers who arrive meanwhile count as greeted, so resuming never greets your whole chat at once.

On the widget page's Controls tab:

• Controls, the column on the left, lists Pause and Resume, each with the names of its triggers. Pick one to see its triggers in Trigger list, beside it.
• Trigger list: the Streamer.Bot triggers that do it. Add trigger adds one, conditions included → Triggers and conditions.
  • Pause — default: Twitch Stream Offline.
  • Resume — default: Twitch Stream Online.
• The main area shows Chatter Greeting: Running or Paused, with the buttons Resume and Pause, also in the controls window.

The state is kept in Streamer.Bot, in the persisted global streamUi.off.greeting (1: paused; 0 or none: running), so it lasts until you resume, even if the browser source reloads, and every overlay follows it at once. Your own actions can pause or resume the widget too, with a Global (Set) sub-action on that variable. The buttons and triggers need Stream UI - Backend.

Streamer.Bot events it listens to

Only the platforms switched on in the Connection page are listened to.