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.
Fire away
Hit Tip, Follow, Sub, Resub, Gift sub, Cheer, or Raid. 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.
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.
- The volume sits right in your mix - adjust the overlay source’s slider in the OBS Audio Mixer, or the per-overlay Alert volume / TTS volume in the overlay editor.