Control every stream overlay from one board

Open the board

Sign in and click the cyan COMMAND CENTER button in your dashboard nav bar — it sits next to TUTORIALS and carries a BETA chip. There is also a full-width Command Center panel further down the dashboard, and the same button appears in the header of every app settings page, so you are never more than one click from the board. Or go straight to streamslayers.com/command-center.

The cards sit in a fluid grid that reflows down to a single column, so a phone or tablet propped next to your keyboard works as well as a second monitor — and because it is a normal web page, two devices signed in at once both drive the same overlays.

Learn to read one card

Every app you own gets one card, and they all follow the same anatomy. The header shows the app icon, its name, and a live status line under it: On air · Gameday, 3 on air, Playing: Intro Clip, Hidden. When something from that app is actually on screen, the whole card lights up — its border and glow switch to the app's accent colour and the status dot goes solid, so you can tell at a glance what is live without reading a word.

Two icons sit on the right of every header: a gear that deep-links to that app's own settings page, and a chevron that collapses the card down to its header. Collapse the apps you are not using in this segment and the board shrinks to just the ones you are.

Below the header the controls come in labelled groups. SLOTS holds one chip per thing you created in that app — a lower third, a GIF, a video clip, a topic, a countdown scene. This is the part that maintains itself: add a slot in the app and its chip appears on the board, no wiring needed. CONTROLS holds the global actions — show/hide, transport, layout switches. Below those sit dropdown selectors (theme, style, position) and, on the Video Player, a volume slider.

Buttons come in two flavours. A toggle carries a small dot on its right edge and lights up while its element is on air — press again to pull it. A momentary button fires once and does not latch (Next, Flip Logos, Hide All). Any button you press dims and shows a spinner until the command lands, so you never double-fire a graphic because you were not sure the first press registered.

Know what each card can do

There are ten cards covering eleven apps — MLB Box Score has no card of its own because it is driven from the MLB ScoreBug card. Here is what each one puts under your finger:

MLB ScoreBug — Score Bug, Stat Card, Away Lineup and Home Lineup toggles, plus a Theme button that steps the bug through its looks. If you also run MLB Box Score or the Scoreboard, this card grows a Box Score toggle, a Layout: Full Box / Layout: Scoreboard+Stats switch, and — on the full box — a Page: Hitters / Page: Pitchers flip that drives both box-capable apps at once so they never disagree on screen.

Scoreboard — Show Scoreboard, plus a Design: Matchup Card / Design: Box Score switch that remembers which card-family design you came from, so flipping to the box score and back does not lose your look. On MLB it adds the Hitters/Pitchers page flip; on soccer the same control becomes Page: Match / Page: Lineups. If you have not picked a game yet the card says so and links you straight into settings.

Multi ScoreBug — Show ScoreBug, a Flip Logos button for when the home/away sides need swapping, and a Theme dropdown that adapts to the game you selected: six core themes plus Elegant everywhere, the MLB Pitch Bug on baseball, and World Cup 26 on World Cup matches. Baseball games also get Stats Lip and Stat Card toggles, and Stats Lip appears on any league once you switch to the Elegant theme.

Ticker — Show Ticker, plus a Style dropdown holding all nine styles (Broadcast, Broadcast Alt, Industrial, Retro, Network, Minimal, HUD, Primetime, Gameday). Switching style mid-show is one dropdown, not a trip to the ticker page. Full setup is in the ticker guide.

Topics Panel and Topic Bar — one chip per topic (press to highlight it live) and one per video slot (press to play, press again to stop), plus Show / Hide, Prev, Next, Stop Video and a Watermark toggle. The Topic Bar adds Reveal / Collapse. Each has a placement selector: the panel gets Panel position (Left/Center/Right), the bar gets Screen edge (Top/Bottom).

Graphics — every saved graphic becomes a chip you toggle on and off air. A graphic that holds more than one post — a Social Post slot with several posts queued — also gets a Next button that shows its position, like Next: Reactions (2/5), so you can walk a carousel live. Solo Mode keeps only one graphic on screen at a time and Hide All clears the canvas in one press — the panic button worth learning. See the lower thirds guide for building them.

GIF Player — one chip per GIF, press to fire, press again to pull, plus a Stop button. Video Player — one chip per clip plus the full transport: Prev, Play/Pause, Next, Stop, Mute, Loop, Auto-advance, and a Volume slider from 0 to 100 that only sends once you release it, so dragging does not spam the overlay.

Countdowns & More — one chip per scene, and a timer transport: Start / Pause / Resume, Reset, −1:00 and +1:00 nudges, Skip to 0, and a Show/Hide toggle. The adjust buttons grey out unless a timer is actually running or paused, so a stray press cannot desync your clock.

Watch the LIVE indicator

Top right of the board sits a small status pill. Green LIVE means the board holds an open realtime connection to your account: every change reaches your overlays instantly, with no browser-source refresh, and the board itself updates the moment anything changes elsewhere. Flip the ticker on from a Stream Deck key, or from the ticker settings page in another tab, and the Show Ticker button here lights up on its own.

Amber POLLING means that live channel is not currently connected — usually a flaky network, a VPN, or a corporate firewall blocking the socket. The board still works: your presses still land, and each card updates from the response to your own command. What you lose is the mirroring of changes made somewhere else, so reload the page once your connection settles to resync.

Build the board around your show

The default board shows every app your plan covers, in a fixed order. That is rarely the order you want. Press Manage in the top right and each card grows an orange bar with a drag handle, up/down arrows and a ✕.

Drag a card (or use the arrows if you are on a touchscreen) to move it. Put the cards you touch every thirty seconds — Graphics, GIF Player — at the top left, and push the set-and-forget ones down. Press ✕ to remove an app you are not using this show; it drops into an Add apps to your board tray underneath, where an Add button puts it straight back. Press Done when the layout is right.

Your order and your removed apps are saved to your account, not the browser — so the board you build on your desktop is the board you get on the tablet. Card collapse is per-session, so collapsing a few cards for one segment does not permanently change your layout.

Pair it with a Stream Deck for the hot keys

The board and the Stream Deck plugin fire the same commands through the same endpoints — not two systems to keep in sync, two ways into one. The split that works: put the five or six things you hit constantly on physical keys, and leave everything else on the board, where every slot you own is visible without paging through deck profiles.

To set it up, scroll to the Stream Deck panel on your dashboard, click DOWNLOAD STREAM DECK PLUGIN (current release v1.18.0), double-click the downloaded file to install it, then generate an API key on the same panel and paste it plus your user ID into the plugin. Because the board reflects live state, a key press on the deck lights the matching button up on screen — which is the fastest way to confirm a key is wired to the right slot.