Make your own stream alerts!
Don't want to rely on a third party service to handle your stream alerts anymore?
You can do it locally with Streamerbot and some OBS sources!
Here's an example of how you can make your own local alert with a simple image and some text that appears then disappears when someone follows you. We'll assume that you already have Streamerbot connected to OBS and Twitch.
Get a picture. Use MSPaint, take a photo, ask an artist to draw you something. In this example we'll use this picture:
If you don't already have one, make a new scene to contain your alerts. You can use this later to have your alerts show up on all your other scenes. Mine's called "Bells and whistles".
Add an image source using the plus (+) button in the scenes area.
Give it a name that makes it clear what it's for, like "alert_follow_image"
Select your image and press OK.
Drag it wherever you want it to show up on the preview pane.
Make a new Text (GDI+) Source in the same way you did the image. Call it something like alert_follow_text. Adjust the font however you like, then set the Alignment to "Center" and turn on "Use custom text extents". Leave "Wrap" enabled and experiment with the width and height to find a comfortable size for your message. You can drag the text box in the preview pane around even while the properties are open.
Once you're done, Ctrl + click both of the sources in the source list and group the items together. Give the group a clear name like "alert_follow". We'll use this later to show and hide all the sources at once. This way you can even add more things in the group and have them all controlled with the same Streamerbot action.
Set the show/hide transitions on the group. A fade lasting the default 300ms is usually good enough.
Open up Streamerbot and go to the Actions tab. Right click somewhere in the actions box to add a new action.
Give your action a clear name like "Follow alert". You can ignore the rest of the options.
We'll add the following sub-actions in the Sub-actions section:
Set GDI Text. Select the scene and text source you made earlier, then your message! Use %user% to get the user's display name from the Twitch trigger we will set up later.
Set Source Visibility State. We'll choose the same scene, but choose the group you made in step 8 as the source. Make sure the state is set to "Visible".
Delay. Set it for a reasonable amount of time, like 3 seconds. 1 second is 1000 milliseconds.
Set Source Visibility State. It's the same as step 12(b), but set the state to "Hidden" this time.
Find and use the Twitch follow trigger.
All done! Your action should look like this.
Now you can add your alerts scene from step 2 as a source in your other scenes. If you need to make any updates to your alerts, you just have to update the alerts scene itself.
