The OBS dock

Your queues as a panel inside OBS - pause, skip and replay without leaving your scene.

The dock is a small control panel that lives inside OBS, next to your scenes and sources: pause and skip for TTS and media, and one feed of everything that played - tips and alerts together - with Replay on each, so you don’t have to alt-tab to the dashboard mid-stream.

What’s in it

• Controls - Pause and Skip for TTS and for media, with the queue counts. A paused queue turns amber and its Resume becomes the solid button. In linked mode the two become one pair, and with media requests switched off there is just the TTS pair - the dock lays itself out for what your channel uses. When a connected overlay has a media screen, an eye beside the media buttons shows or hides the video on stream. Nothing in the dock says what is on screen - OBS is right there.
• The feed - the default view, one list, newest first: every tip and every platform event, the way an activity feed reads. A sub, a cheer, a raid or a follow appears the moment it happens and fills in (the viewer’s picture, Replay) once your overlay has played it; a channel-point redemption appears whether or not your alert box alerts on that reward. Each kind has its own colour on the row’s edge. Alerts carry the viewer’s Twitch or Kick picture, a gift names the gifter with who received it a press away, and every alert the overlay played has Replay - it replays through your alert box, so one the box has switched off is refused with the reason, and with no overlay connected it waits for the next one. The chips under the view switch filter by kind - tips, videos, subs, gifted subs, bits, raids, follows, channel points, Kicks - in any mix; the dock remembers the mix, and only offers the kinds your channel can have. When something is still waiting its turn, an Up next block sits at the top in play order (folded to three rows), and the row your overlay is playing right now carries three moving bars; press a message to read all of it, and the bin removes a waiting tip (press it twice) - open the row to remove just the TTS or just the video.
• Queue and History - the switch above the filters swaps the feed for the whole waiting list in play order, or for played items only. The dock remembers which you picked.
• The menu (the circle at the top right) - the accepting-tips switch, reload, and Disconnect. Nothing in the dock opens a web page: OBS would open it in its own browser window, where you aren’t signed in, so anything that needs the dashboard is done in the dashboard.

The two small icons in the header say whether an overlay is connected (nothing plays without one) and whether live updates are flowing - without them the panel still refreshes itself every few seconds.

Good to know

• The dock is a connected app, like one you’d build on the developer API. It appears in Settings › Developer › Connected apps as “TipPage Dock” with the device it runs on, and you can disconnect it there at any time. Each OBS or browser you connect is its own row.
• Actions from the dock show in the dashboard and in webhooks as the dock, not as a person - so moderators who need their own attribution use the dashboard.
• It works in an ordinary browser tab too, as a slim second-screen view.
• A tip removed from the queue is gone; a skipped alert can be replayed from the history. Skipping an alert that is on screen is done from the dashboard’s Controls page.