The BoTik Stream Deck: a complete guide
One-tap keys for sounds, spoken lines, AI, chat polls, scenes and music: start from 12 templates, then run them from your phone or an Elgato Stream Deck.
BoTik Team10 min readUpdated October 9, 2026
Everything you do mid-stream competes with the thing you are actually streaming. Alt-tabbing to skip a song, hide a source or play a sound costs you a few seconds of attention every time, and viewers can tell.
The Stream Deck collapses all of that into one tap. It is a grid of keys you design — or take from a template — and it sits on your Go Live page, on your phone, and on a hardware Stream Deck if you have one.
Note
The Stream Deck is a Premium feature. The 7-day trial does not ask for a card, so it costs nothing to find out whether you would use it.
Start from a template, not a blank grid
Keys are grouped into profiles, and one profile is active at a time. A chatting stream and a gaming stream want completely different grids, and switching profiles swaps the whole set.
Use a template for your first profile. Each one is a working grid of around twenty-five keys for that kind of stream — spoken lines, sound effects, one or two AI keys, music and queue controls — so you react to something real instead of deciding from nothing. Then delete the keys you never press.
| Template | Built for |
|---|---|
| Just Chatting | Welcomes, storytime, hot takes and a reaction sound for every moment. |
| Gaming | Hype calls, GG and clutch moments, victory and game-over sounds, plus music controls. |
| Battles | For LIVE matches: battle start, final seconds, win and loss lines, and arena sounds. |
| Singing & Karaoke | Song requests, encores, standing ovations and quick breaks between songs. |
| Dance | Dance breaks, challenges and bass drops, with the music controls close at hand. |
| Fashion & Beauty | Get ready with me, outfit checks, this-or-that votes and glow-up sparkles. |
| NPC Stream | NPC catchphrases and cute reaction sounds, one tap each. |
| ASMR & Sleep | Soft whispers and calm ambience: rain, fireplace, waves and chimes. No air horns. |
| Trivia & Games | Run a quiz: questions, correct and wrong sounds, a 30-second timer and a score counter. |
| Art & Creative | Ask what to draw, start a speedpaint timer and make the big reveal. |
| Fitness & Workout | Warm-ups, interval timers, whistles and motivation for live workouts. |
| Study & Focus | Focus sessions and breaks on a timer, with gentle chimes and ambience. |
A template’s keys arrive in the language you use BoTik in. Once a key is on your deck it is yours: change the words, the sound or the colour.
Your deck gets the new keys too
When a template gains new keys, a profile made from it gets them the next time you open your deck. They are added after your own keys, nothing you made is changed, and a notice tells you what arrived. Remove them takes them all back out in one click. A profile holds up to 32 keys, so anything that does not fit is left out.
What a key can do
Every key has a small badge in its corner that says what kind of key it is, and the tabs above the deck filter by kind.
| Kind | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Plays a sound effect: the built-in Stream Deck sounds, your gift and event sounds, or your own. |
| Lines | BoTik says a line out loud, in the voice you choose. |
| AI | BoTik writes something fresh and says it. 2 BoTik Credits per press. |
| Effects | Something happens on stream: fireworks, a counter, a timer, a chat poll, a video clip or a pet reaction. |
| Controls | Runs the show: music, the reading queue, sounds, OBS scenes and sources. |
A key holds a list of actions, not just one, and each step can carry a delay. That is what turns it from a shortcut into a macro: switch to the BRB scene, play a sting, and start a five-minute countdown from a single press.
Lines that name the right person
A spoken line can hold variables that BoTik fills in when you press the key: {lastGifter}, {lastFollower}, {lastSharer}, {lastSubscriber}, {topGifter}, {topLiker}, {topChatter}, {viewers} and {likes}. “Thank you so much, {lastGifter}!” thanks whoever just sent a gift, without you reading the name off chat.
Add up to five alternative lines and BoTik picks one at random, so the same key does not sound the same all night. A line whose variable has nobody yet — no gift so far — is skipped, so finish with a plain line such as “Thank you all so much for the support!” as the fallback.
Lines wait their turn
Spoken lines and AI answers share the queue with chat. They play straight away when nothing is being read, otherwise right after the current message — never on top of it.
AI keys
AI keys have a gold rim, so you never press one by accident. Each press writes a fresh line — a joke, hype, a chat recap, a shout-out, an icebreaker or anything you describe — and BoTik says it in your language and in its personality. It sees recent chat and the stream’s numbers, so a recap or a shout-out is about this stream, not a generic one.
Tip
The AI line action can target the top gifter, the top liker or the top chatter rather than a fixed name. A shout-out that names the right person without you checking a leaderboard is worth more than a perfectly written one that names nobody.
Each press costs 2 BoTik Credits. BoTik never asks your viewers for gifts, coins, likes or taps, in AI lines or anywhere else.
Chat polls
A Chat poll action puts a question with two to four options on the Deck Poll overlay. Viewers vote by typing the number or the letter on its own in chat — one vote each, and changing their mind counts. Votes are not read aloud, and when time runs out BoTik announces the winner.
A poll runs for 10 seconds to 5 minutes and only while you are live. The AI would you rather key in the Just Chatting and Trivia & Games templates opens a poll and has BoTik ask the question, so the whole game is one press.
Sounds: the kit and your own
Templates use the Stream Deck sounds: a kit of everyday reactions such as applause, a drumroll, wow and laughter, plus calm ambience — rain, a fireplace, waves — that loops until you press the key again. Pressing a sound key while it plays stops it.
My sounds holds your own. Upload an MP3 or WAV of up to 1 MB, or describe a sound and generate it with your own ElevenLabs key. Uploads are trimmed and levelled, so they sit at the same volume as everything else.
Keys that appear when they are useful
A grid of forty buttons is a grid you cannot use at speed. Visibility rules keep it small by showing each button only in the moment it applies.
- Always visible — the default.
- Only while connected to TikTok Live.
- Only while music is playing.
- Only while OBS is connected.
- For a few seconds after a gift — optionally a specific gift, or one above a diamond threshold.
- After a follow, a subscribe or a share.
- After a PK battle starts, when a bonus mission appears, or after a battle ends.
The gift rule is the interesting one. A "thank you" button that appears for ten seconds after someone sends a Lion, and disappears again, means you never hunt for it and never press it by accident.
Note
Keys whose dependency is offline are dimmed rather than hidden, and say what is missing — OBS, the music player, TikTok Live or an overlay source. You can see why a key will not fire without pressing it.
Where it sits while you stream
The dock sits on the Go Live page, so the deck is in reach on the screen you already have open. Choose small, medium or large keys from the deck view menu.
Control keys can steer the reading itself: skip the message being read, pause reading chat — new messages wait in the queue while BoTik’s own lines still play — or mute gift and event sounds for a while.
Running it from your phone
On the Stream Deck page, choose Pair a phone.
Scan the QR code with your phone. The code is single-use and expires within minutes.
The phone opens the remote and shows your active profile.
Switch profiles on either one and the other follows. Edits you make on your PC reach the phone straight away.
Hand a paired phone to a friend if you want.
Turn on Hide on guest remotes for sensitive keys first, and name each remote when you create it, so you know whose access you are revoking later.
Watch out
The remote talks to the BoTik tab on your PC. If that tab is closed the phone shows "BoTik is not open on your PC" — the remote is a controller, not a second copy of the app.
From an Elgato Stream Deck, Touch Portal or Streamer.bot
Turn on External triggers on the Stream Deck page.
Copy a key’s trigger URL from its ⋯ menu.
Paste it into your app.
Elgato: a “Website” action set to open in the background, or a web-request plugin. Touch Portal, Streamer.bot and Companion: an HTTP GET or POST action.
The press runs in your BoTik tab exactly like a click, even while BoTik is not the focused window, and your app gets a clear answer back, so it can show a tick or a cross. If BoTik is not open on your PC, the press fails instead of firing later.
Treat trigger URLs like passwords
Anyone with the URL can press that key. New secret stops every old URL at once — then paste the new ones into your apps.
Hands-free: “Hey BoTik”
If both hands are busy, the deck has a voice bar. Hold to talk, or opt into the Hey BoTik wake word and skip the holding.
Built-in commands cover next song, previous song, play, pause, clear the queue, replay the last message and play a specific song — and you can trigger any button by saying its label.
Wake-word detection runs in your browser
Audio is analysed on your own machine and never uploaded. It works in Chrome and Edge on a computer. Sensitivity starts on high — if it fires when nobody said “Hey BoTik”, step it down to medium, then low.
Sharing and backing up a profile
Export saves a profile as a file you can keep or send to another streamer, and Import loads one. Anything that points at someone else’s sounds, clips or cloned voices is left out on import, and BoTik tells you how many. Inside a profile, any key can be duplicated or copied to another profile from its ⋯ menu.
Pair the deck with overlays for the counters, timers and polls your keys drive, with OBS connected for the scene actions, and with the battle tools if you do PK battles.
