Showing/hiding (or activating/deactivating?) overlay based on game being played?

Extensions
1

Is there a way to flip a game extension on or off based on the currently played game?

2

I’m guessing that manually is not the answer you are looking for… This is another area where we will end up doing more going forward; although I cannot and will not make any time commitments :wink:

Rest assured, it is something that we are aware of, and want to improve on!

3

Pretty sure you can show/hide the UI based on the game. You can get the currently played game with the onContext callback from the twitch helper js.

window.Twitch.ext.onContext(function (context, contextFields) {
    //console.log(context.game);
});

Then you can hide the UI with display: none or however you choose.

4

From the testing i have done so far on our extension onContext context.game does not get updated in real time. So if a broadcaster changes game the viewer extension will not see the updated until the viewer refreshes the page.

@rbartlet Is this correct?

5

Ah yeah, the fact that it doesn’t update in real time is a bummer. My extension also relies on the current game, so let’s hope they make it update in real time soon.

6

Ah yes. In our case we may be able to disable it by emitting a signal to our EBS when the game session ends, but a built-in context update on game change would be awesome.

7

I couple this with polling of the Twitch API to get game/title too.

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/[chan ID]/

Either way right now, since we can ONLY have one video overlay, streamers are switching game specific ones in and out as they need to