Change game/title | Run commercials
Open the Admin Dialog via View - Channel Admin
or by
right-clicking on the channel to open the context menu and choose
Channel Admin
.
In the Admin Dialog you can edit your title/game and run commercials, if
you have allowed Chatty access (you need Editor Access
/
Commercial access
respectively, see allow more access).
The Admin Dialog is always opened for the currently active channel, unless there is no channel open (which is the case just after you started Chatty), in which case it will open for your own channel (you login with).
The Status-Tab lets you view and change the title and game of your channel.
The information is loaded when you open the dialog and when you press the
reload
-Button. If others may have changed the info in the meantime,
you may want to reload before trying to change it.
Use Select game
to open a dialog where you can search for
a game and also add games to the favorites.
Communities in Twitch are an additional category you can select for your stream. If you want to use a Community, you need to select an already existing one. As with games, you can add favorite Communities. Make sure to adhere to the rules when selecting a Community.
Status Presets allow you to store the current title, game and community
for later use. A status is automatically added every time you press the
Update
button (can be disabled in the History settings),
but will be removed after some time of not being used. You can also add
the current status to the favorites by pressing the Fav
button, which means it is never automatically removed from the Status
Presets.
Press the Presets
button to open the Presets, where you can
select a status (double-click to immediately use it) and filter by
current game or favorites.
The Last Activity
column shows when this status was last
set using the Update
button (or when it was added to the
favorites for the first time). The Usage
column shows how
often it was set using the Update
button.
If you are partnered with Twitch, you can run commercials on your channel here (even if you are not partnered it may run a commercial). Click on the appropriate button to try to run a commercial of the given length.
The Last run
time shows when a commercial was last run
through Chatty (this session).
There are two different ways of scheduling a commercial, either running
a single commerical on a delay or repeating running a commercial on a delay.
Select either or both options and then press a Run commercial
button to schedule the commercial. Press the same button again to cancel the
scheduled commercial. Click a button of another length to change the length
of the commercial while keeping it on schedule. Scheduled commercials are
not completely exact, they may be run a few sceonds too late.
If you have Use delay
selected, then the commercial will be
scheduled to run after the specified time. If you have Repeat
selected,
then - after each commercial run through Chatty - another commercial will automatically be scheduled to run again with the same delay.
You don't need to have Use delay
selected for Repeat
to work, they just both use the same time as delay.
The time for the delay will be interpreted as seconds by default, but you
can also specify minutes. Examples: 30
(30 seconds), 5m
(5 minutes), 120s
(2 minutes).
If you have downloaded the appropriate version of Chatty (the one with
"hotkey" in the .zip filename, Windows only), you can define a global hotkey
to run 30s commercials on the channel you currently have open. The hotkey
can be defined on the Commercials
tab in the Admin Dialog
(don't forget to press Set
to actually set it).
If you have the Admin Dialog open on the Commercials
tab,
then executing the hotkey will simulate a click on the 30s button, with all
the implications like being able to use a delay, running the commercial on
the channel that the Admin Dialog was opened on (instead of the currently
active channel) and so on.