Test your alerts
Fire free test alerts at your overlay - no payment, no waiting for a real tip.
Before you go live, prove the whole chain works. The Test alerts panel on the Overlays page sends fake events straight to your overlays - no payment, nothing saved to your history. Every connected overlay receives the test; each one shows only the event types enabled in its editor.
Connect your overlay
Open OBS with your overlay added. The panel’s LED shows “overlay connected” when it’s live - the buttons stay disabled until then.
Check TTS isn't paused
If TTS is paused, test alerts sit in the queue and don’t play. Unpause from Controls or the TTS page.
Pick a platform
With both Twitch and Kick connected, a switch above the buttons picks which platform the test events come from. Follows and subs are sent as that platform’s events, so a custom widget that only counts Kick subs reacts to a Kick test. Cheer and Raid only exist on Twitch, Kicks only on Kick. With one channel connected the tests always come from it.
Fire away
Hit Tip, Follow, Sub, Resub, Gift sub, Cheer, Raid, or Kicks. The tip test sends a £5.00 tip from “TestUser” with a message, so you’ll hear the sound and the TTS end to end. If chat announcements are on, the test also posts in every chat you have connected.
What to check while it plays
- The alert appears where you placed it, in your style.
- You can hear the sound and TTS yourself - if you can’t, it’s the audio monitoring step in OBS.
- You can also fire test events from the Emulate button in the overlay editor. They play in the editor’s preview only, and work for any widget that reacts to events (custom widgets, goals, labels, the activity feed, celebrations), not just the Alert box.
- The volume is part of your OBS mix - adjust the overlay source’s slider in the OBS Audio Mixer, or the per-overlay Volume sliders (Voice, Alert sounds, Tip sound) in the overlay editor.