Run the timer from the chat

What chat commands do

Chat commands let your mods run the timer without opening the site: add or remove time, pause, start a happy hour. They work on Twitch, Kick and YouTube, and all of them begin with the same word, !timer by default.

They are off until you turn them on: by default, nothing in your chat is read.

Turning them on

1. In the menu, open 💬 Chat commands.
2. Tick Turn chat commands on.
3. Under Platforms, tick the ones you want listened to.
4. On Twitch, click Allow chat reading on Twitch: you go through Twitch, then come back to the page.
5. Click Save.

Who can use them

• You, always, on your own channel.
• Moderators and VIPs (Twitch and Kick), if you tick them.
• Other people allowed: their usernames, separated by commas, for a friend or an editor who is not a mod.

The commands

• !timer +5m adds 5 minutes, !timer -30s removes 30 seconds. Durations are written 30s, 5m, 1h, 1h30; a number alone counts as minutes.
• !timer pause and !timer start pause and restart the timer.
• !timer hh on starts a 60-minute ×2 happy hour on every event; !timer hh on x3 30m picks the multiplier and the length; !timer hh off ends it.

Each command is switched on or off on its own: your mods can add time without being able to remove any.

Answering the time left

Tick Answer the time left when anyone types the command alone: any viewer who writes !timer gets the time left in the chat, for example ⏱️ Time left: 4:12:09.

• One answer per Time between two answers (30 seconds by default) for the whole chat: twenty viewers typing the command at once get a single message.
• On Twitch there is nothing more to allow. On Kick, then click Reconnect Kick: Kick asks for the permission to write in your chat.
• YouTube is left out: every message would use up the quota that reading your chat needs.

The safeguards

• Most time per command: a command asking for more is brought down to this limit. A typo cannot add a whole day.
• Only while the timer is running: with the timer paused, adding or removing time and happy hours are refused. start and pause always work.
• Once the subathon is over, commands are refused, except adding time if you let events revive the timer in Set Timer.
• One person can run one command every two seconds: a line pasted twice by mistake only counts once.

The latest commands are listed at the bottom of the page, with who typed them and what they did: handy to know where an addition came from.