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All about streamion.bot.

Sign-in flow, chat commands, event responses, alerts, music integrations — the full reference for your bot configuration.

Channel-point rewards

Channel-point rewards let viewers spend their Twitch Channel Points to trigger something on your stream. streamion.bot can turn a redemption into one of three actions:

  • Read message aloud (TTS) — the viewer types a message when they redeem, and the bot reads it out through your Text-to-Speech overlay.
  • Play sound alert — the redemption plays one of your Media Commands (a sound or video clip) on the overlay.
  • Buddy item — the viewer types the name of a shop item and gets it for their buddy, instead of paying loyalty points. Needs Buddies (a Pro feature) to be set up.

You can create as many rewards as you like, each mapped to its own action. They're managed on the Channel Points page (/channel-points, under Overlays & Alerts in the sidebar).

This is not the same as channel-point song requests. Queuing songs with channel points is configured separately on Settings → Music — see the Spotify and YouTube Music pages. The Channel Points page here is only for text-to-speech, sound alerts, and buddy items.

Before you start

Channel-point rewards need your broadcaster account connected with the "manage redemptions" permission. If it isn't, the page shows a banner with a Reconnect button — reconnect on the Channel page and the controls activate. (Twitch also limits custom rewards to Affiliate and Partner channels.)

Creating a reward

Click New reward and fill in the dialog:

  • Action — Read message aloud (TTS), Play sound alert, or Buddy item. This is fixed once the reward is created; to switch, delete it and make a new one.
  • Reward name — what viewers see on Twitch (up to 45 characters).
  • Cost (points) — the channel-point price (1 to 1,000,000).
  • Description — optional, up to 200 characters. For a "read aloud" reward it's the instruction shown above the viewer's text box on Twitch.
  • Reward colour — the colour of the reward tile on Twitch.

Depending on the action you also pick:

  • Sound (media command) — for a Play sound alert reward, which of your media commands plays. You need at least one media command first (create one under Overlays & Alerts → Media Commands).
  • Voice — for a Read message aloud reward, an optional voice. Leave it on Default voice to use your channel's default TTS voice.

When you save, streamion.bot creates the reward on Twitch for you — you don't add it in Twitch's dashboard yourself. Editing the name, cost, description, or colour later updates it on Twitch too, and the Active toggle enables or disables it without deleting it. Deleting a reward removes it from Twitch as well.

What happens on a redemption

When a viewer redeems one of your rewards:

  • Read message aloud (TTS) — the bot speaks the viewer's message through the overlay and shows it on screen. If they leave the message empty, or no voice is available yet, the redemption is refunded and nothing plays.
  • Play sound alert — the linked media command plays on the overlay. If that media command has since been deleted, the redemption is refunded.
  • Buddy item — the item the viewer typed is added to their buddy's wardrobe and put on right away. If the item doesn't exist, or they already own it, the redemption is refunded.

Successful redemptions are marked fulfilled on Twitch automatically; refunded ones return the viewer's points. Both actions play through the same overlay browser source as your alerts, so make sure that's set up in OBS.