Ask Pix

Pix is the little orange character with the X on its belly in the corner of PX Studio and these docs. Ask in your own words: in the docs Pix answers from this documentation, inside PX Studio Pix can also do the work for you.

How to ask

• Sign in to PX Studio first: Pix answers signed-in accounts, in the studio and in these docs.
• Click Ask Pix in the corner or at the top of any page.
• Or search with Cmd+K and choose Ask Pix under the results.
• In PX Studio press Cmd+J to open or close Pix.
• Pix knows which page you are reading, so "how do I test this?" works.
• Pix in the way? Drag the Ask Pix button anywhere on the page. Drop it close to an edge and it docks there. With the button focused, Alt and the arrow keys move it, Alt+Home puts it back. Reset position in the Pix settings does the same.

Pix stays small: it stands by its message field and answers in a speech bubble that folds to one line when you leave it alone. Hover an answer and click Copy to take it with you. Show full chat (the arrows) or Show earlier messages opens the whole conversation, Esc closes Pix. On a phone Pix opens as a sheet.

Good questions

• "How do I add my overlay to OBS?"
• "Why is my alert not showing?"
• "How do I let my mod switch scenes?"
• "Which command shows the song queue?"

What Pix can do

When you are signed in to PX Studio, Pix can do everything you can do in PX Studio, with exactly your rights. On an overlay someone shared with you the team permissions apply, and bot changes go to the bot of the overlay owner.

• Overlays and layers: create overlays, add, change, group, hide and arrange layers, scenes and settings, and restore the history. "Add a chat box to this overlay"
• Organizing: saved spots and positions, deck buttons and favorites, notes and comments, templates, linked layers and OBS scene mapping. "Save the chat position as spot Corner"
• Live tools: the YouTube player, GIFs, stickers and memes, media favorites, drawing and the live data of a layer. "Show a GIF of a cat on the media layer"
• PXStudioBot: commands with all their options, timers, counters, quotes, custom APIs, moderation filters, song requests and bot settings. "Add a timer that posts my Discord every 15 minutes"
• Community: giveaways, loyalty points and rewards and channel points. "Start a giveaway with !join for 5 minutes"
• Chat: send a message to your chat, time out or ban a viewer, delete a message and change chat modes. "Turn on slow mode for 30 seconds"
• Automations: rules that react to follows, subs, raids and other events. Apart from channel point rewards in the Bot desk they have no page of their own in PX Studio, so ask Pix to list or explain them. "When someone follows, show the follow alert"
• Stream and account: your stream title and category, stream history and stats, activity, packs, premium overlays and your plan. "How was my last stream?"

While Pix works you see what it is doing right now, and you can press Stop at any time. Changes made so far stay.

Every change Pix makes shows up under the action it took, with a small icon for the area it changed, and overlay changes appear in the overlay history as your name via Pix. After quiet changes Pix offers an Undo button under its answer for 10 minutes; after that, History on the overlay card brings back an older version. Undo also covers bot counters, spots, deck buttons, notes and the other changes outside the overlay history. If someone changed the same thing in the meantime, Undo stops instead of overwriting their work.

Stream performance and OBS

When OBS is connected in the editor (the OBS button in the top bar), ask Pix things like "Why is my stream lagging?" or "Check my OBS settings". Pix reads the performance values of your OBS (CPU load, frame rate, dropped and skipped frames, bitrate, resolution, encoder and your PX Studio browser sources) and tells you what it finds. Without a connection Pix says so and explains how to connect.

If a setting should change, Pix shows a card with the current and the suggested value. Nothing changes until you click Apply in OBS; Cancel leaves OBS as it is. After applying, Undo puts the old values back for 10 minutes. The card also says when a change takes effect: video settings only while you are not streaming or recording, and bitrate and encoder preset from your next stream. Pix never touches your stream key, stream server or service, never switches the encoder and never starts or stops your stream or recording.

Files

Click the paper clip next to the message field, drop files on the Pix panel or paste an image. The files upload to your file library like in the Files panel, up to 5 per message, and Pix can use them where you say, for example "Use this as the image of the title".

What needs your OK

When your message clearly asks for exactly one action, Pix does it right away. Everything else waits until you click Confirm on the card Pix shows: actions Pix suggests itself, anything that comes from chat or other data, names that match more than one thing, several big changes at once, and moderation, outside services and restoring the history, which always need your OK. Under Ask before acting in the Pix settings you can have Pix ask before every change, or only before things that cannot be undone. The card says exactly what will happen and lists every value Pix wants to set; long texts open with Show more. When Pix prepares several actions at once, one card lists them all and Confirm all runs them in order. Cmd+Enter confirms while the card has focus. The colored edge and label tell you the kind of action:

• Destructive (red): deleting or replacing something without Undo, for example an overlay, a scene, a bot command or all your commands at once. Deleting an overlay says Cannot be undone.
• Moderation (amber): anything that affects a viewer or your chat rules, like timeouts, bans, deleting a message, removing a giveaway entry, blocking a drawing viewer, slow mode or moderation filters.
• On air (coral): anything your viewers see on stream right away or later on their own, like going live with a scene, firing a widget, playing a video, showing a GIF or creating and changing automations.
• Calls an outside service (teal): custom APIs, where the server calls an address on the internet.
• Public (violet): anything your chat sees right away, like chat messages, bot commands, timers, giveaways, rewards and your stream title.
• Uses text from your data (sky): a change that would write text Pix read from your overlays, chat or other data instead of text you typed. Pix asks first so nothing written by someone else ends up on your stream unseen.

Click Cancel and nothing changes. Changes to layers of the scene that is live show on air right away, just like in the editor, and Pix tells you when that happened.

What Pix never does

These stay with you for good. Pix explains where to click and can link the page, but never shows or asks for links or tokens.

• Share links, import links, viewer drawing links, pack links and action webhook links. These links give access to your overlays and packs, so only you share them. Where: Share in the editor and the pack page.
• Inviting, changing or removing team members. Who gets which rights on the account is decided by the owner. Where: Team in the studio.
• Plans, payments, cancellation and redeeming codes. Money, contracts and voucher codes stay with the person. Where: Settings, Plan & codes.
• API tokens, connected apps and Stream Deck tokens. These are your keys, so you create and manage them yourself. Where: Settings, API & AI apps (Stream Deck tokens: Settings, Stream Deck).
• The OBS link of an overlay and rotating it. The OBS link gives access to your stream output. Where: OBS in the editor.
• The OBS sync connection and its password. These are the sign-in details of your own OBS. Where: OBS sync in the editor.
• Avatar, language, keyboard shortcuts, data export, deleting the account, connecting or disconnecting Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Ko-fi and Discord, and signing in. Identity, sign-in and deleting the account stay with the person. Where: Settings, tabs Account and Connections.
• Header values of custom APIs, Discord webhook URLs and new action webhooks. You enter secret values yourself in the app; Pix can change the other settings. Where: Custom API headers in the Bot desk.
• Reporting content and withdrawing from a contract. Legal statements must be made by the person. Where: The report and withdrawal forms.

In the docs Pix only answers; changes happen inside PX Studio. Never paste passwords, OBS links or tokens into the chat.

Privacy

• Your chat only when you ask. In the editor Pix can read the recent messages of your chat panel, but only when you ask about the chat or want to moderate it. The messages are never stored and Pix treats them as data, never as instructions, so a viewer cannot tell Pix what to do.
• OBS values only when you ask. With OBS connected, Pix reads performance values and output settings when you ask about your stream, never your stream key, stream server or passwords.
• Files only as metadata. Pix sees the name, type and size of an attached file, never its content.
• Nothing is kept. Conversations are not stored on the server. Only open confirmation cards and the Undo button live for 10 minutes.
• Claude by Anthropic. Questions go to Anthropic's Claude API, which does not train on them.