Vovó Help

First steps

A profile is a live: its pad, actions, scenes and accounts. The active profile shows at the top of the window, and that is where you switch.

1. Put the overlay in OBS

In Scenes, copy the scene's address and add it in OBS as a Browser Source, with the canvas's width and height. The address never changes, so this is done once.

2. Connect Twitch and OBS

In Integrations, sign in to Twitch (a code in the browser, no password in Vovó) and link OBS through its WebSocket. Each platform has a section there; a click on its name folds it away, and its name still says how it is. Follows, subs, raids and chat then arrive, and buttons switch OBS scenes. The profile also takes the Twitch account's picture; in Settings, Profile, you can change it for an image of your own or have none. Vovó keeps the Twitch sign-in in Windows' Credential Manager, never in its own files. The chat shows in the side bar with Twitch's emotes as pictures, moving as they do on Twitch unless Windows' animation effects are off; on the screen overlay they stay still. A phone or another Vovó helping with the live has Twitch's own emotes from Twitch itself.

3. Build the pad

In "Edit pad", make buttons for sounds, videos, actions, OBS scenes, and the sources and filters in OBS.

Before going live

Open Pre-flight, in the bottom bar: it says what could go wrong and carries the button that fixes it. And remember panic: Panic, red, at the right end of the bottom bar, or Ctrl+Alt+P, clears every overlay at once. While you are live, the left end of the bottom bar says so, in red, with how long and how many are watching. In its middle, an icon each for the overlay, Twitch, OBS and remote access wears the colour of how it is: green connected, amber trying, red waiting for you, grey off. Its tooltip says more; a click does what is most asked of it (the overlay's opens a scene's preview, OBS's shows OBS's preview), and a right click opens its menu, with the way to where it is set up.

Who is in chat

With Twitch connected, the people icon in the bottom bar says how many are in chat, and a press lists them, in alphabetical order. Twitch names only who is signed in with the chat open, so it is fewer than those who watch; it tells Vovó again each minute, and as the list opens. A name opens their channel on Twitch, in your browser. The names are shown and never kept. A sign-in from before Vovó asked for this says so there: connect again.

Emotes from 7TV, BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ

Many channels use emotes that are not Twitch's. To Twitch they are plain words: it is an add-on in each viewer's browser that draws the picture, so a chat shown on the stream shows catJAM as a word. In Integrations, under Twitch, "Emotes from other services" has a switch for each of the three, all off until you turn one on. A service you switch on is asked for your channel's emotes, by the channel's Twitch id, and for the ones it gives every channel, when Twitch connects and every ten minutes after; "Read again" asks at once, for an emote a moderator has just added. From then on, a word in chat that is one of those names shows as its picture wherever Twitch's own emotes do on this computer, such as an action that shows the message's parts (the "Alerts and chat" example does); a phone or another Vovó helping with the live shows the word. The picture comes from that service the first time the emote is used, and is kept on this computer. What stays a word: an emote 7TV has not reviewed, one whose picture weighs more than 2 MB, and the words that only change the emote before them (w!, ffzW). When two services have the same name, your channel's emotes come before the ones a service gives every channel, and 7TV before BetterTTV before FrankerFaceZ. A service that does not answer is said in the console, and chat goes on as words.

After the live

Vovó counts each live while it is on: how many watched, minute by minute; how many people wrote in chat and how many messages; new followers and subs; and raids and hype trains, as marks on the chart. During the live, the red LIVE in the bottom bar opens it; afterwards, the Twitch card in Integrations, or the search. The arrows go back through earlier lives. The counts come from Twitch, so it has to be connected. Only counts are kept, never names, on this computer, for the profile's last 100 lives, and a drop of up to five minutes in the middle is still the same live.

Finding something

The magnifier at the top, or Ctrl+K, searches the tab you are on first and then the rest: tabs, buttons, actions, scenes, every setting and the help. The arrows choose, Enter goes there, and a setting is shown on its row. The icons at the window's right edge open the side bar beside the page, a page each: Chat and AI (and Team while the profile takes devices), then Music and Panels, and the help at the foot, which F1 opens on what the window shows. Each icon shows what waits there, with the side bar closed too, and a second press puts the side bar away.