Kick: chat and channel points in the shared feed

What arrives from Kick

Each of these arrives as an ordinary event, so commands, timers, scenarios and alerts work on it with no separate setup. The places where Kick still differs from Twitch are listed further down.

• Chat messages in the shared feed, marked with the platform icon and the role of the person writing — streamer, moderator, VIP, subscriber.
• Kick emotes, so a message reads on your overlay the way it reads on the site.
• Chat commands starting with “!” work exactly as they do elsewhere.
• Channel point redemptions: the reward name, what it cost, who redeemed it and the text they typed in.
• The viewer count, plus the stream title, the category and how long you have been live.

What the app writes back

The connection is not read-only: what the app may do is exactly what you allowed on the authorization page.

• Write in chat as your own account, or as a separate bot account you connect on purpose.
• Reading always goes through the main channel; the bot only sends.
• Commands, timed messages and the AI co-host answer in Kick chat with no separate setup.

Channel points as a trigger

A Kick redemption arrives as the same kind of event as a Twitch one, so scenarios and alerts already know what to do with it.

• A redemption fires a scenario: a scene, a sound, a lamp, a temporary effect.
• It shows as an alert on stream and lands in the day’s statistics, with the platform recorded next to it.
• The rewards themselves are made on Kick — the app reads what viewers redeem, it does not create the buttons.
• Redemptions are read, not answered: accepting or declining them stays on Kick’s side.

What does not reach the app

Kick is the youngest of the three platforms, and the gaps are worth knowing before you build an evening around it.

• Subscription and gift alerts stay empty, and so do the fundraising goals: Kick sends those events only by webhook — knocking on a public address on the internet, which an app running on your own PC does not have. Channel points get through because they are read by polling instead.
• Polls, predictions and clips are not part of this connection: the app runs those on Twitch. Kick has its own polls and clips, and they stay where you already use them — in its chat and its player.
• Kick redemptions do not raise bids in the auction: the auction picks the rewards it accepts from the Twitch list.
• Kick messages carry no moderation buttons in the Stream: Chat tile — time out, ban and delete are there for Twitch and YouTube only. This authorization grants no moderation rights on Kick, and a button certain to be refused is worse than no button.

Connecting, and what can break

Connection is one button and an authorization page — the token and the channel data are picked up by themselves.

• You authorize on Kick’s own page: the app never sees your password, and the token is encrypted by your operating system’s key store.
• The token refreshes automatically. If Kick revokes access — a password change, for instance — the status turns to “reconnect needed” and one button fixes it.
• If Kick was connected before the app learned to read channel points, that old authorization carries no rights to them and redemptions never arrive at all: one reconnect in Connections → Channels grants them.
• Kick does not officially expose the chatroom id, so the app works it out once and stores it; it can be corrected by hand in the advanced block.
• The connection to chat is kept up permanently: a live broadcast is not required for it.

Where it all shows up

Kick gets no screen of its own — it lands in the places the other two platforms already use.

• The chat overlay in OBS, where a Kick message sits next to a Twitch one with the platform icon on it.
• The Stream: Chat and Stream: Events tiles on the control panel, in one feed for every platform at once.
• The Stream: Viewers tile, which counts each platform separately and adds them up.

What it is made of

Each part is a separate module: you install only the ones you need, and any of them can be removed without breaking the rest.

Getting started

1. Open Connections → Channels and press connect.
2. Authorize on the Kick page and allow access.
3. Optionally connect a bot account so replies do not come from your own name.
4. To use channel points, bind a Kick reward to a scenario in Automation → Scenarios.
5. Check that messages reach the chat overlay.

Kick is the youngest of the three platforms and still gives the least. Everything built on chat and channel points works there; subscription and gift alerts do not, because Kick hands those events out by webhook alone — to a public address that an app on your own PC has no way to offer.

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