📢 Release Notes - v1.5.9

✨ New Features

Remote Mod Dashboard

Introducing the new Remote Mod Dashboard, allowing moderators to manage chat from any browser on your local network.

Features include:

  • Dedicated LAN pairing with QR codes
  • Browser-based moderator sign-in
  • Twitch, YouTube, and Kick chat support
  • Moderator actions using your own account credentials
  • Chat-focused interface with account and connection status

Custom Categories

Custom Commands, Timers, and Automations can now be organized into your own categories.

Features include:

  • Create custom categories
  • Assign items to categories
  • Collapsible category groups
  • Category selection directly in editors

Giveaway Media

Each giveaway can now have its own custom image or GIF from the Media Library.

Additional improvements include:

  • Animated giveaway overlay transitions
  • Rotating or stacked display modes
  • Configurable display timing
  • Dedicated Giveaway Overlay settings

Mobile & Tablet Layout Editor

Creating mobile layouts is now easier than ever.

New features include:

  • Visual layout editor
  • Draggable split bars
  • Quick layout presets
  • More flexible panel arrangements
  • Separate portrait and landscape behavior

New Platform URL Variables

Added new command variables for linking directly to user profiles:

  • {platform.userUrl}
  • {target.url}

Supported platforms include Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and TikTok.

🔧 Improvements

Better YouTube Reliability

Further improvements to YouTube connection handling provide more reliable reconnects, smarter offline detection, and reduced unnecessary API usage.

URLs are now clickable in both Mobile / Tablet Light and the Remote Mod Dashboard chat feeds.

Improved Variable Picker

The Variables panel has been updated with clearer category names and better organization.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed automation message variables and emotes not always inserting correctly.
  • Fixed giveaway media selection and preview issues.
  • Fixed duplicate messages sent from the Remote Mod Dashboard.
  • Improved moderator message delivery and permission handling for Twitch.
  • Fixed YouTube connection status not updating correctly after automatic disconnects.
  • Emotes now correctly render on mobile/mod

🔄 To receive the update, simply launch SheevChat or right-click the system tray icon and choose _Check for Updates_.