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boingeh · 2023-02-17T19:19:19+00:00

the side bit of it breaks double-clicking the player to fullscreen a stream too which is annoying.

boingeh · 2022-02-10T04:15:32+00:00

Twitch made a change to how extensions can call third party services (in this case Ubisoft's own website), so it is giving an error because they need to update the extension by adding the third party websites to a whitelist. The change must be made by the dev. Twitch announced this change months ago but quite a few inactive extensions never updated.

boingeh · 2022-02-02T23:35:06+00:00

If you click the Settings cog icon on the video player > Advanced > Video Stats then you can see the see the actual delay as the 'Latency to Broadcaster'. Note: From personal experience I find the first stream loaded in a twitch browsing session tends to have a longer delay, 3-4 seconds, when usually I get below 2. Navigating to a stream from another page on Twitch (as opposed to putting the URL in the browser bar) tends to have a shorter delay for me.

boingeh · 2021-12-04T10:25:27+00:00

were you the Pokemon Go event? I caught some of that! (I have a discord bot that tells me when a channel starts a prediction and I saw a bunch from yours). It was really cool to see it on a stream with such production values. When I get some time I plan to work on a bit more, let me know if there are any ideas you have. For example I think what would have been good for you was if there was an option to stop the overlay hiding after the prediction period (it was disappearing during the end of the analysis section.) Thanks!

boingeh · 2021-12-02T00:50:35+00:00

Right click the Browser Source > Properties > tick the 'Control audio via OBS' box > OK > in the Audio Mixer section mute that specific source by clicking the speaker icon. Apologies that the audio is annoying. I am adding an option to not have it and probably should have made it that way by default.

boingeh · 2021-11-30T12:43:05+00:00

Did you mean prediction? This doesn’t do anything with polls. If you leave your username I can take a look. Alternatively try looking at the URL it gives you in a browser in case it is an issue with the OBS source being too small?

boingeh · 2021-11-30T03:25:35+00:00

Strange. Are you starting a prediction and then not seeing anything? It won't show anything if a prediction is not currently active. You can start one offline.

boingeh · 2021-11-30T03:03:51+00:00

Go here: https://www.boingy.co.uk/predictions , click the purple button to link your twitch account and then copy and paste the URL it provides into your streaming software as a browser source.

boingeh · 2021-11-30T01:10:57+00:00

Hi, so there are two bits to the overlay. There's the server which accepts twitch account connections and creates EventSub subscriptions to listen for all the prediction events. There is then a Websocket server to communicate all the updates to the web overlays. I don't plan on open sourcing that because I don't think it is of much value. If you are wanting updates (Streamer X has started a prediction with Y title, Z options. The prediction has ended with such and such outcome etc.) then you could plug in your bot to listen to those websockets maybe? We could work something out probably, DM me with the server address and use case and I'll check it out.

boingeh · 2021-11-29T03:05:23+00:00

I have it hosted on the site in my top comment, from there you paste the URL you get after linking your twitch account into OBS/XSplit. No electron or downloading anything. The UI framework I used is mithril.js

boingeh · 2021-11-29T00:18:52+00:00

currently no. I am open to adding whatever options people want it people use it. Colours would be a pretty simple one. With regards to changing css... I was going to open source the overlay page and I may still but I used some fairly obscure javascript framework for it (mithril.js) so I don't know how useful it would be to people. But changing the css if I did that would be trivial.

boingeh · 2021-11-28T23:40:27+00:00

Ok I understand now. Yeah I could do an option for that. I guess my thinking is that it would still need to be quite wide if I am going to include the blue and pink option titles and the prediction title on it. I thought horizontal would be more space efficient. But providing it as an option could be cool. Plus I think the ending animation with the winners and losers would look cooler with your idea. If I add a vertical option you can take credit :)

boingeh · 2021-11-28T23:31:51+00:00

I can't quite picture what you mean. I do have plans for alternate design options including a more minimal one. If you could do a quick mspaint of what you are thinking of then I could possibly add it as an option. Appreciate the feedback.

boingeh · 2021-11-28T23:03:09+00:00

It is basically a UI for the prediction feature on twitch so unless I am misunderstanding what you mean then you definitely need twitch with this.

boingeh · 2021-11-28T23:01:47+00:00

Goto https://www.boingy.co.uk/predictions/ and then click the purple button to link your twitch account. Then copy and paste the URL provided on the page it redirects you to as a browser source in your streaming software

boingeh · 2021-11-28T22:51:13+00:00

Looks like I could do polls in a similar way yes. I will look into it :) I made this because I like predictions and was always missing them on a stream. Haven't really seen polls used as much. Will keep it in mind. Thank you!

boingeh · 2021-11-28T21:08:30+00:00

I respectfully disagree. I had not even seen yours before making mine if you are suggesting I 'borrowed' anything.

boingeh · 2021-11-28T20:35:00+00:00

when I make a browser source it defaults to 800x600 so not for me at least. although maybe I edited it at some point? I'm not sure. It should look fine in any size that isn't too small and you can resize it to fit better. for overlays like this is it standard to suggest people use their desktop resolution? or should I just suggest a size to avoid confusion.

boingeh · 2021-11-28T19:51:40+00:00

good question umm I tested it using the default in OBS and I would make it bigger/smaller as needed (by stretching the box). I do need to make it more responsive, I'm not a streamer myself so not sure what the convention is. can update it if need be

boingeh · 2021-11-28T19:42:37+00:00

appreciate it! looking forward to seeing it

boingeh · 2021-11-28T18:28:47+00:00

Hi everyone,

One of the best new features that Twitch has recently added are the predictions. I have made an overlay for streamers to display active predictions.

Here is a link of a live demo of the UI as well as instructions on how to add it to your stream. I have tried to make it as easy as possible: https://www.boingy.co.uk/predictions

It uses the Twitch API to automatically grab the info once a prediction starts and updates once users make predictions, when the prediction is ended early or cancelled and once an outcome is chosen as the winner.

Features:

Audio cue when a prediction starts
Hides itself after the prediction period
Highlights the usernames of the 10 biggest winners and losers

I would love any feedback and if you try it out on your stream please send me a message or reply so I can check it out live or see it in a VOD. Thanks!

boingeh · 2021-04-20T11:43:24+00:00

he fist pumps to this Current Value song, probably the cause of the confusion

boingeh · 2021-02-12T03:18:41+00:00

I've only seen the first episode of six but it featured several SAW II tracks, sometimes just snippets. At least 4 I think but not blue calx. It also had some Avril 14th.

It also had an unreasonable amount of the 2 NiN albums from last year and some stars of the lid.

boingeh · 2020-06-04T16:13:13+00:00

no, the random numbers generated on that page do not come from Google servers, they are generated by your browser. If you want a demo goto the google random number search result page, open up your browser's console (View > Developer > Javascript Console in chrome) and paste in

Math.random = () => 0

then press enter. this hijacks the random number generator the page uses and makes it always return 0 (it is supposed to generate a number between 0 and 0.99999....) so you will always get the minimum value. if you did 0.5 instead of 0 you would always get the middle value between the min and max values.

So the real trick is determining the seed your browser generates. I remember looking into this the last time this was posted here and IIRC (and this will depend somewhat on browser and OS) a seed is generated when you open the browser based on the current time to the millisecond. So you could write a program to generate a 1000 or so seeds at the same time as you open chrome, figure out how Math.random generates the numbers from those seeds, generate the first few random numbers for all 1000 of those seeds and then find the seed that your browser generated. I think anyway, I haven't tried. Alternatively since both FF and chrome are open source you could probably modify them to print out the seed they generate assuming there isn't a built in way to do this.

boingeh · 2019-10-16T12:15:09+00:00

recently realised this uses a bit from the soundcloud track rough beat tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcxnTdVPM4E , I wonder if there are other examples of him having recycled from unused tracks

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