Death counter for OBS and Twitch: via chat command, phone and Stream Deck

What you need

• An overlay that already runs as a browser source in OBS (see the guide “Add an overlay to OBS”)
• Riglayer is connected to your Twitch account (this happens when you sign in)

The steps

1. Create a counter in the overlay

   Open your overlay in the editor, click “+ Add element” and choose “Score” in the “Timers & counters” group. In the element card enter a name such as “Deaths” under “Name” and set label, font and color. The name matters because the chat command finds the counter by it.

   • Ready-made: the “Gaming basics” template already comes with a death counter.
   • Besides the score, hearts, a progress bar without a Twitch source and every entry of a multi-score also work.

2. Create a chat command

   Open the “Chat commands” page (“Twitch” group) and click “New command”. Enter the command without the exclamation mark, for example “deaths”, and choose your counter, for example “Deaths”.

   • “Who may use the command?”: channel owner only, moderators (default), VIPs and mods, subs, VIPs and mods, or everyone. The channel owner always may.
   • “Allow numbers in the command”: with “Yes”, +3, -2, set 10 and reset also work; with “No” every call changes the counter by exactly one step.
   • “Cooldown between uses” prevents double clicks in chat (default 2 seconds).
   • “Reply in chat” is optional, for example “{name} is now at {wert}”.

3. Use it in chat

   From now on Riglayer reacts to the command in your chat:

   • !deaths raises it by one step
   • !deaths +3 or !deaths -2 changes it by that value
   • !deaths set 10 sets the count
   • !deaths reset resets it (the last three only with “Allow numbers”)

4. Control it from your phone or computer

   On the “Controls” page all counters appear as tiles with big plus and minus buttons, also on a phone. The page can be installed as an app. On a computer you can use the “Hotkeys” switch there to assign keys to actions.

5. Control it with Stream Deck

   On the “Controls” page click “Stream Deck” and create an access. Riglayer shows you ready-made links for every action, for example plus, minus or reset for your death counter. In the Stream Deck software put the “Website” action (“System” folder) on a key, paste the link and enable the option that calls the page in the background so no browser window opens.

   • The links are secret; anyone who has them can trigger these actions.
   • This works the same way with other devices and programs that can call a web link.

Tips and common problems

• Simultaneous clicks from chat, phone and Stream Deck are not lost: Riglayer applies every change on the server one after another.
• In a text element you can show the count with a variable like {zähler:Deaths} (the variable keeps its German name).
• If the command on the “Chat commands” page shows “Counter not found”, the name in the overlay does not match the chosen counter.