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Plex Account Setup

Plex is an online media streaming service that lets users set up a server to host their own media. This means that you can rip your CD's, DVD's, Blu-Rays, etc. and stream them at home or really wherever you have an internet connection. Even if you don't personally want to host a Plex server, though, one of your friends might, and there's also often things to stream and rent available.

Setting up an account on Plex is free and pretty easy. Go to the Plex website, and click on the "Sign Up Free" button. The registration form should look something like this:

Once you have created an account, you can browse the various things that are available for free in your browser or on the Plex app that is available on most smart TVs and phones.

The browser version of Plex looks like this:

Friends

If you have a friend who hosts a Plex server, they can send you an invitation to watch what they have available. Generally, they will need the email address you used to register your Plex account or the username you chose.

Once you have accepted an invitation, you will have access to their library.

An Opt-In Hug Command

Hugging can be super common in chats, but not everyone is comfortable with or wants to be hugged, so I’ve put together this set of commands to let people opt-in to hugs if they want them.

The way this works is that I have created a special currency that I named huggable in MixItUp:

MixItUp Multi-Pet Command

So, we have 3 cats as of the time I’m writing this post, and I wanted to have a !pet command that could pet them all at once or individually. This seems to be different to how many !pet commands are set up because it can accept 0-n arguments (where n is the number of pets to choose from).

I will break this guide up into a two main parts: Action Groups and the Command.

Action Groups

I have one Action Group for each pet that the Command will use. I chose to use Action Groups now because it gives me the ability to re-use the individual pet actions anywhere else I may want them, but I originally created them because my first draft of this command was repeating the pet actions in multiple places, which can be a hassle to update each time. I have since simplified this, but feel free to put this logic into the Command itself. The process will be the same either way.

MixItUp PNGTuber Roulette

Note

These instructions are for an early version of the PNGTuber Roulette used in PerhapsSam's streams. I will put together a newer tutorial once I have worked out this issues with it. The new version uses MixItUp's timer widgets, which will allow showing countowns of time left for each PNGTuber.

I was asked to set up a roulette to choose a random PNGTuber as a Twitch channel point redeem. After watching a couple YouTube tutorials on how to change a PNGTuber with MixItUp, I came up with something that works fairly well.

The process here can be broken down into five basic steps: set a hotkey in your PNGTuber application, generate a random number, use that number to select a PNGTuber, wait for a set amount of time, and revert back to the default avatar.

So first, we need a hotkey, and we need this because we will tell MixItUp to press this hotkey, which will change our PNGTuber to the one that was randomly selected. You will need one for your default avatar and one for each of the available options.