BEACONS × TWITCH

Beacons for streamers

Your Star Citizen sessions, open to your community, in three clicks.

A beacon is a gaming meetup: a mining run, a raid, a race, a flight night. You launch it, your community joins, and everyone meets in game on time, RSI handles at hand.

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What you get

Effortless announcements

The CavaleraBot bot posts your beacon in your Twitch chat, and on your Discord server if you invited the Beacons bot there.

Your chat joins by itself

Viewers type !beacon join: they're in, without leaving the stream.

An audience of your own

Reserve a beacon for your followers or subs, or keep it fully private for your org.

An on-screen widget

The next beacon and its countdown, as an OBS overlay.

Getting started

1
Sign in with Discord
One account for all of Cavalera. No password.
2
Link your Twitch channel
My account, Twitch card, "I'm a streamer". Twitch shows the permissions requested: read your followers and subs, and let CavaleraBot write in your chat.
3
Launch a beacon
Title, date, duration, slots. In "Twitch audience": everyone, your followers or your subs. Tick "Announce in my Twitch chat".

Chat commands

!beacon: the channel's next beacon: date, time left, sign-ups, link
!beacon join: signs the viewer up (they link their Twitch to Cavalera once, the bot gives them the link)
!beacons: the channel's next three beacons

The bot replies in a thread under the message. Each command answers at most once every 15 seconds, so the chat is not flooded.

The OBS widget

In OBS: Source, Browser, paste your widget address (My account, Twitch card), width 520, height 160. Transparent background, refreshed every minute. Nothing shows when no public beacon is planned.

Private beacons

🔒 Followers or subs

Sign-ups are checked with Twitch. Tick "hide" to make the beacon invisible outside that audience.

🔒 Your RSI organization

Listed and open to verified members of your org only.

🔒 Your Discord server

Visible to its members, optionally limited to some roles.

🔒 Invite link

A secret link to share, with optional expiry and number of uses, regenerable at any time.

A private beacon is never announced in your chat nor shown by the widget.

What Cavalera sees, and does not

Cavalera never sees your Twitch or Discord password: everything goes through the official authorization screens.
Permissions asked from streamers: read your followers and subs list (to check the audience), and CavaleraBot's presence in your chat. Nothing else: no moderation, no broadcasting.
Viewers grant nothing: linking only proves their Twitch identity.
Everything unlinks in one click from My account, and the permissions are then revoked with Twitch.

A question, an idea?

Write to us from the Feedback page, or drop by the Cavalera Discord.

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