Moving from StreamElements, step by step.

Before you start

• Keep StreamElements as it is until step 8: Switchbud reads your commands and points from it, and your stream keeps working while you move.
• Open StreamElements’ dashboard in another tab, for the timers.
• If you bought overlays, find their ZIP files: the shop you bought them from has them.
• Nothing changes on Switchbud until you press Import or Bring them over, and you see the list first.

1 · Sign in

1. Press Start with Twitch, at the top of any page.
2. The first sign-in offers a one-minute setup that makes alerts and widgets in a look you pick. You can change all of it later, or use your own pack in step 5.

2 · Your commands

1. In Chat & viewers → Filters & bot account, open the fold called Coming from another bot?
2. Pick StreamElements. Switchbud reads the commands of the channel you signed in with, without a password or token, and lists them.
3. Read the list. A command with a note uses something Switchbud doesn’t have: it comes in switched off, and the note says why.
4. Press Import. A command you already have here stays yours, and the bot holds up to 50 commands.

3 · Your timed messages

1. In StreamElements’ dashboard, open its timers and copy the messages.
2. Back on Switchbud, just below the import, paste them under Timers from another bot: one a line, with the minutes in front if you like (15: Follow the channel!).
3. Look at what it found and add them. They come in switched off: turn on the ones you want in Timed messages.

4 · Your viewers’ points

1. Open Chat & viewers → Viewer points, and press Check StreamElements.
2. It shows how many viewers have points there, the biggest balances and how points are earned.
3. Press Bring them over. Balances and watch time come in; anyone who already has points here keeps them.
4. Add your store’s rewards again in the store on Viewer points: they don’t come over.
5. Switch Switchbud’s points on only once StreamElements’ loyalty is off, or both bots answer !points.

5 · Overlays and alerts

1. For a pack made for StreamElements’ custom widgets: Look → Ready-made looks → Own pack, and drop in the ZIP. Its widgets, alerts and fonts are added.
2. Overlays and alerts built in StreamElements’ own editor can’t be exported: pick a look in the gallery (try each one live first), or design your alerts in Look → Alerts.

6 · Tips

1. If viewers tip you through StreamElements, open Look → Tips & donations and pick StreamElements. It asks for the JWT token from your StreamElements account (avatar → Account → Channels → Show secrets).
2. Tips then play as alerts on Switchbud. The money goes where it always went.

7 · Switch OBS over

1. In OBS, add Switchbud’s alert box (Home shows its link under Alerts in OBS) and hide the old browser sources, so an alert doesn’t play twice.
2. Add each widget the same way, from its own Add to OBS button.
3. Send a test alert from Home and watch it play in OBS.

8 · Turn StreamElements off

1. Turn StreamElements’s commands off, or remove it from your channel, so viewers don’t get two answers.
2. Turn its loyalty points off, then switch Switchbud’s on.
3. Keep the StreamElements account if you still use its tipping page.