This update focuses on improving the connection experience, adds some fun and exciting new features, and squashes a bunch of bugs!
New Features
- Overhauled Connection Management - Connecting made easy!
- Sidebar connection area has been rebuilt to give you more info at a glance while also streamlining the connection process for you. There's now a single, customizable button for connecting and status indicators for each connection (including the Overlay!).
- Backend code has been redone to better maintain connections plus improved auto reconnecting for when they do fail. We hope you see way less disconnects!
- Hotkeys - Create hotkeys that manually run buttons, commands, or a custom list of effects!
- Works with Stream Deck!
- Supports F13-24 keys
- You can now customize the default hotkeys for toggling Interactive/Chat connections
- New Toggle Connection effect - Tells Firebot to toggle it's connection to the selected connections
- Used in the new default hotkeys but you can also use this in commands or buttons if you wanted.
- Several New Text Variables - A popular request. Spice up your chat effects!
$(time)- Current time$(time24)- Current time in 24 hour format$(uptime)- How long you have been broadcasting$(game)- The game your stream is currently set to$(target)- Like the current $(arg) variable but strips out any leading @ symbols.- And more, check out the Chat Effect to see them all!
Changes
- UI Improvements - We've gone through and gave fresh new looks to buttons, input fields, tabs, and more. The Dark theme was given a lot of love too and now looks much better.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Chat Feed to extend past the current window size, cutting off chat messages.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from removing users from viewer groups if they werent on the first page.
- Fixed a bug that meant only the first instance of a replace variable would actually be replaced.
- Resolved a ton of issues with maintaining connections, especially with Chat.
- Fixed an issue that would cause copy/pasted effects to not persist if you saved immediately.
- Resolved a bug that prevent the Event List effect from working properly.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from logging into a new user after logging out of a previous one.