Toggle Alert & Toggle Alert Set
Published 31 Jul 2026
These two actions let one alert switch others on and off. Together they are how you build modes: a "chaos mode" your viewers can turn on, a set of alerts that only runs while you are away, a reward that unlocks something for the rest of the stream.
Toggle Alert
Switches a single other alert on or off.
Configuration Options
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Select Alert to Toggle | Which alert to change. The alert you are editing is left out of the list, so it cannot switch itself. | - |
| Operation | Enable, Disable or Toggle. | Toggle |
Operations
| Operation | What it does |
|---|---|
| Enable | Always switches the target on, whatever state it was in. |
| Disable | Always switches it off. |
| Toggle | Flips it to the opposite of whatever it is now. |
Toggle is convenient, but if two events arrive close together you can end up in the state you did not want. Enable and Disable are predictable.
Toggle Alert Set
Switches a whole alert set on or off, which affects every alert inside it at once.
Configuration Options
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Select Alert Set to Toggle | Which set to change. Any set containing the alert you are editing is left out of the list. | - |
| Operation | Enable, Disable or Toggle. | Toggle |
Remember how sets gate firing: an alert in one or more sets needs at least one of them enabled to fire. Disabling a set only silences an alert if it has no other enabled set.
Common Uses
A mode viewers can turn on
- Alert 1: Chat Message matching
!chaos, action Toggle Alert Set → Chaos Mode → Enable - Alert 2: Chat Message matching
!calm, action Toggle Alert Set → Chaos Mode → Disable
Put every chaotic alert in the Chaos Mode set and leave the set disabled by default.
A reward that unlocks something
- Trigger: Points Redemptions, Viewer Redeemed Points, filtered to your Unlock redemption
- Action 1: Toggle Alert Set → Bonus Alerts → Enable
- Action 2: Delay, 30 minutes
- Action 3: Toggle Alert Set → Bonus Alerts → Disable
Away mode
- Trigger: OBS Studio, Scene Changed, filtered to your BRB scene
- Action: Toggle Alert Set → Device Alerts → Disable
Then a matching alert on your main scene to switch it back on.
A one-shot alert
Have the alert's last action be Toggle Alert pointed at itself... which is not allowed. Instead, put the alert in a set of its own and disable that set as the last action.
Things to Watch For
No self-reference. An alert cannot toggle itself, and cannot toggle a set that contains it. Those options are hidden from the pickers.
Chains are possible. Alert A can disable Alert B, which enables Alert C. Nothing stops you building a loop this way, so sketch it out before you start.
Changes are saved. Toggling is not temporary. If a set is disabled when you close TipLink, it is still disabled when you open it. Check the Alerts page after a stream if something has stopped working.
Enable does not override everything. Enabling an alert that sits in a disabled set will still not make it fire. Toggle the set as well.
Related
- Alert Sets - how sets gate firing.
- Trigger Alert - run another alert's actions immediately, rather than switching it on.
- Delay - useful for timed unlocks.