These tabs turn location, weather, time, ride data and timers into things you can use during a live stream.

Overlay builders are mentioned here only so you know they exist. How to add, show, hide and place overlays is on Overlays.

The GPS tab shows where the router thinks you are, how good the fix is, and what the moving rig has done so far.

At the top you see:

• the map
• Position
• Speed
• Heading
• Altitude
• Accuracy
• Satellites

The map has Following / Follow off. Leave it on when you want the map to keep recentering on you.

StreamHelpers can use three location sources.

When a USB receiver is plugged in, the Receiver placement card matters. Keep the receiver a few inches away from USB hubs, the router and power banks. They can make the receiver go deaf even while its data cable is working.

When the fix comes from the Companion app, the tab shows GPS from the Companion and names the device. Everything that uses GPS uses that phone position too: overlays, map, weather and the theme-park tools. A USB receiver takes over automatically once it is plugged in and locked.

The status chip tells you what state the receiver is in.

Common messages:

• 3D fix means the USB receiver has a usable position.
• Companion GPS means a phone is supplying the position.
• Acquiring GPS… means the receiver is talking but does not have a fix yet.
• No USB GPS receiver detected — plug it in or re-seat it means no receiver is seen.
• GPS receiver not responding — no data for Ns means the receiver stopped sending.
• No satellites — check sky view means the receiver is alive but cannot hear the sky.
• Signals too weak means satellites are overhead but not strong enough to use.

Satellite count is not the whole story. A receiver can know satellites should be overhead and still hear none well enough to lock. Move the receiver first; do not just wait forever.

GPS activity shows:

• Distance
• Estimated steps

Press Reset to start those from zero. The dashboard also resets them when the configured stream starts. Steps are estimated from GPS distance, not from a pedometer.

Share my location controls publishing to the StreamHelpers Pro live map.

Publishing includes position, speed, heading, altitude, satellite count and estimated accuracy, plus the hosted trail. It does not include the phone's motion or environmental sensors (such as g-force, airtime, steps or temperature). See Pro Live Map for public readout controls and privacy zones.

Options:

• Only share while I'm live-streaming pauses publishing when the Director Mini is not streaming.
• Publish to my StreamHelpers Pro live map sends your position to your public Pro map.
• Link wording chooses which version of the map address is shown.

Every available address has Copy URL and Open controls. Open uses a new window/tab. Copying or opening does not select different wording; the active map address also has its own controls.

The map updates every ten seconds. That is deliberate: most live streams are already several seconds behind, and a faster map would get ahead of the video.

The public map is a StreamHelpers Pro feature. See StreamHelpers Pro features and Pro Live Map.

Tell me about this place uses your GPS fix and your own AI provider key to make short lines you can say on stream.

Buttons:

• What's around me
• Tell me facts
• Tell me the history
• What's on here

When the Theme parks tab knows about nearby rides or shows, chips appear so you can ask about one named place instead of a raw coordinate.

An answer does not go on stream by itself. Press Put on screen beside a line, then style it with the Place card overlay. Overlay details are on Overlays.

The Place card editor is inside this section. Other GPS editors sit with their matching controls: Map address under Share my location, GPS readout under GPS activity, Motion under Motion & g-force, and Map under GPS map.

The separate Where am I? overlay automatically names a nearby ride, show or restaurant, then falls back to a park or resort. Choose your destination or park on Theme parks first. No AI key or Pro subscription is needed.

• Automatic prefers a location within 100 metres, then a park within 500 metres of a mapped point, then the configured resort within 3 kilometres of a mapped point.
• Adjust those distances, or choose Park, then resort or Resort only.
• A changed name must stay the best match for 15 seconds before replacing the current one, reducing GPS flicker.
• Missing or expired GPS, unavailable/stale directory data and out-of-range positions hide the overlay.

This is proximity, not exact boundaries or proof of being on a ride or in its queue. Only your configured ThemeParks.wiki destination is searched. Coverage and available coordinates/hierarchy determine how specific it can be.

Style its text, heading, resort context, source credit, colours, background, border, corners and animations. Drag the preview to position and size it. The preview uses a sample name; GPS match reports the live candidate. Keep the ThemeParks.wiki credit enabled. Show/hide it from the Overlays tab or Quick Commands; say show the location name or hide the ride name.

Picture → Show offers Location name only, Logo/image + location name, or Logo/image only (name when there is none). In picture-only mode the name hides after its picture loads, but missing or unreadable pictures leave the name visible. Choose Picture source from the images saved on Theme parks → Pictures & logos: The named place (else its park, else the resort), The park (else the resort), or The resort. Choose its Height (or Match the text) and Side (left or right). It works in every layout; the preview shows your park's picture or a dashed sample logo. A location put in a land uses the land's picture when it has none of its own. Old settings keep showing both when a source was enabled, otherwise text only.

Motion & g-force is included with StreamHelpers Pro. It also needs the StreamHelpers.com Companion app, because the readings come from the phone's sensors.

Press Turn on to start measuring. Press Reset peaks on all phones before a ride or run when you want fresh records.

It shows:

• g right now
• Peak g
• Lightest
• Airtime
• Lateral
• Vertical
• Spin
• Heading
• Height change
• Tilt
• Steps
• Measuring for
• Phone

The phone samples quickly and keeps the peaks itself, so short bumps and airtime moments are not missed by a slow dashboard poll.

Height change comes from the phone barometer. It is a change since the last reset, not your absolute altitude. That is what you want for a hill, lift, drop tower or ride: how much you went up or down.

The Motion overlay (g-force, airtime, height change) can put selected readings on stream. It is still a Pro feature and draws nothing until the router is paired. See StreamHelpers Pro features and Overlays.

The Weather tab shows current weather and the next 12 hours.

The Weather location card decides where the forecast comes from:

• leave it on GPS to follow the stream
• type a location override when you want a fixed place
• press Set to save the override
• press Use GPS to go back to the live fix

The Right now card shows:

• condition
• temperature
• feels like
• humidity
• wind
• precipitation
• UV

Next 12 hours shows the hourly forecast.

Weather follows the GPS when there is a fix. If there is no GPS fix and no override, the tab falls back to its default location and says so.

The forecast is from Open-Meteo. For measurements at the rig itself, the Weather tab can also read a SwitchBot Outdoor Meter (W340001X) over Bluetooth:

• SwitchBot Outdoor Meter on Amazon
• No SwitchBot Hub is needed. A nearby Android phone running a compatible StreamHelpers.com Companion app receives the meter's Bluetooth broadcasts and forwards its readings through the router.
• To activate the sensor:
  1. Put the batteries in the meter.
  2. Hold the button inside the battery cover until its light flashes, then let go.
  3. Keep the meter within Bluetooth range of a phone running Companion 0.9.88 or newer, with Bluetooth on.
• The readings appear in the On-location readings card by themselves, usually within a minute.
• Leave everything on Automatic. The settings under Options don't need changing. Automatic picks the listening phone (the active director if it can, otherwise any online phone with Bluetooth and Companion 0.9.88+) and shows the first meter it hears. Use Options only to stop listening, to choose a particular phone, or to pick your meter if a neighbour's meter is being picked up instead.
• The Measured temperature and Measured relative humidity cards show the sensor's latest readings and freshness. These are separate from the forecast values above; wind, rain and UV are still forecast data.
• The meter is rated IP65 for outdoor use. Mount it in a shaded, ventilated spot; direct sun can heat the enclosure and make the air-temperature reading misleading.

Weather overlays are built from the Weather tab, but URL options and placement belong on Overlays.

The Clock tab builds a clock/date overlay.

Open the cards in order:

• Show chooses Time, Date, 24-hour, and Seconds.
• Timezone & date format chooses Device local, a named time zone, or UTC, and the date style.
• Style chooses Layout, Accent, and Text.
• Background sets colour, opacity, or No background.
• Border sets colour, width, corner radius, or No border.
• Live preview shows what the overlay will look like.

Use Device local when the screen showing the overlay should decide the time zone. Use a named time zone when the stream must always show one place's time.

The Timer tab controls a timer overlay and can also use theme-park data when that tab is enabled.

The separate Stream timer shows how long you have been live as hours, minutes and seconds. Its own overlay is available in Overlays under Clock & timers and works in Companion, Director Mini and other streaming apps.

It is the last section in Timers. Queue/countdown templates, overlay switch, styling, placement and preview now fold inside Timer control. Editors do not show overlay addresses; output setup stays on Overlays. Quick Commands / voice also has stream timer start/stop/reset, show/hide, mode, status and appearance controls. Say show the stream timer or hide the stream timer; hiding only changes visibility, not timing.

• Automatic: detected stream follows the router's existing RTMP/bonded-traffic stream detection. Confirmation takes two readings (roughly one to two minutes). Brief connection drops keep the same timer; idle detection has a 30-minute grace period. Stop stream ends the detected session. A new session starts from zero.
• Manual gives you Start / resume, Stop and Reset to zero when automatic detection is not appropriate. Stop freezes the display; Start resumes it; Reset while running starts again from zero.
• Reset to zero only resets this displayed duration, not stream statistics/history or the queue/countdown timer.
• Use the stream timer's own overlay switch to show/hide it. Change its title, colours, digits, background, border and position independently, then Save appearance. Drag/resize in the preview saves placement automatically.

The live address is stable: timer-overlay.php?stream=1&ovid=irl-stream-timer. It polls its separate state/settings endpoint, so saved changes reach an already-loaded source. Preview stays visible while idle; live output hides until running. Backups include its appearance and mode, never a running clock or reset baseline.

Choose Count up or Count down.

For count up, press:

• Start
• Stop
• Clear

For count down, choose one of:

• For a length
• To a time
• Pick a show

Then start it, unless you picked a show from the show picker. Picking a show is a complete action and starts the countdown.

The At zero, hide every overlay option hides all timer overlays when the countdown ends.

The timer title has three parts:

• Before
• Text
• After

They are joined with spaces and empty parts are skipped. For example, Before can be Waiting for, Text can be a ride name, and After can be so far or a posted wait.

When Theme parks is enabled, press What am I near? to fill the title from nearby rides, shows or dining.

When the Theme parks tab is enabled, the timer gains quick actions:

• Entered queue offers the three nearest rides; tap yours and it fills the title, starts counting up, and switches the timer overlay on.
• Select show offers nearby shows with future start times, fills the title, counts down to the selected start time, and switches the overlay on.
• Pick a show inside Count down does the same from the full countdown controls.
• Find shows near me refreshes the show list.

For parades, the posted start time may be when the parade steps off, not when it reaches you. Use Reaches me N min after it starts when you know the delay. If an AI provider is configured and the selected item looks like a parade, Estimate with AI can try to fill the minutes.

The timer builder includes:

• Time Display
• Appearance
• Animation
• Position & behaviour
• Live preview

Use those to set colours, text size, font, background, border, enter and exit animation, placement, and what happens when the timer stops.

When Theme parks is enabled, a Picture section adds a saved picture from Theme parks → Pictures & logos: The location in Text (the location image, matched by name however the title was set — picked, typed or started from Quick commands — and falling back to the park's picture) or The park. Set its Height in pixels and Place it left, right, above or below the timer. Show picks Location name only, Logo/image + location name or Logo/image only (name when there is none); logo/image only swaps the location name for the picture once it loads, and keeps the words whenever there is no picture. With logo/image only, tick Keep Before text and/or Keep After text to keep those words, so the picture sits where the name was: Waiting for [logo] so far. It is off until you choose a picture.

Layout sets the order of the timer's pieces. Classic uses Place title and the Picture Place setting. Custom order lines up Before text, Picture, Name (Text), After text and Timer digits in whatever order you drag them into (or move them with the arrows), Side by side or Stacked. For example, Before, Picture, Timer digits, After reads Waiting for [logo] 12:34 so far. Empty pieces and a missing picture are skipped, and Logo/image only with its Keep ticks still decides which words show.

For general overlay setup, see Overlays.

The Theme parks tab builds an overlay from live ThemeParks.wiki data: wait times, show times, dining, status, distance from you, and more.

Turn the tab on in Settings → Menu bar → Show the Theme parks tab.

The data comes from ThemeParks.wiki. The tab and overlay credit it. Leave the credit on unless you are naming ThemeParks.wiki somewhere else on screen.

The tab has three sections. Settings holds the ThemeParks.wiki notes and steps 1 and 2 (destination and park), which the Heading to overlay uses too. Theme park data overlay holds steps 3 to 7 and the preview. Heading to overlay is the third. The seven steps are:

1. Choose a destination — pick the resort.
2. Choose a park — pick the park inside that resort.
3. What do you want to show? — choose Attractions, Shows, Dining, or a mix.
4. Which details? — choose fields such as name, type, status, standby wait, return window, next show time, all show times, table availability, operating hours, distance, and last updated.
5. How should it appear? — choose Ticker, Scroller, Static rows, or One at a time, plus sorting and filters.
6. Heading & text — set heading, colours, size, labels, separators and distance units.
7. Panel — set background, border, size and the ThemeParks.wiki credit.

Theme park overlay shows the overlay while you edit, with its Showing on stream switch (the same one as on the Overlays tab) right above the preview.

From 2026.10.09.5 the Theme parks tab has its own Heading to section. It lists the park's rides, shows and restaurants nearest first from your GPS fix. Pick one and the Heading to overlay shows a title, where you are going, how far away it is, an estimated arrival time and the wait you can expect when you get there (the forecast wait when you are 15 minutes or more away, otherwise the posted wait). Switch any of those lines on or off and design the panel like any other overlay. Destination: show chooses Location name only, Logo/image + location name, or Logo/image only (name when there is none). Pictures replace the emoji; picture-only hides the destination name after loading and restores it if the picture is missing or unreadable. Distance, waits and the timer are unchanged.

The ETA uses your GPS speed when you are moving at 1.5 mph or more, otherwise a walking pace of 2.5 mph, allowing for paths that are not straight lines.

When you have been within about 40 metres for a few seconds, the overlay can turn into a timer: its own, or the dashboard's stream timer, so viewers see how long the queue takes. Mark arrived starts that early if GPS is slow to agree, and End trip takes it off.

The Companion app (0.9.97 or later) does the same from its Theme parks screen with Go here. Show, hide or clear it from macros, too. Its settings are included in dashboard backups.

Depending on what the park publishes, the overlay can show:

• live wait times
• ride status
• show times
• dining availability
• distance from your GPS fix
• operating hours
• forecast waits

The timer also uses this data for What am I near?, Entered queue, Select show, and Pick a show.

The Restream.io title builder can use it too, with Suggest from where I am on the Titles card.

If ThemeParks.wiki is rate-limiting or unreachable, wait and try again. The dashboard keeps cached data where it can, but live waits can be stale just like the boards in a park.

• Overlays
• Publishing
• Audience games
• StreamHelpers.com Companion
• StreamHelpers Pro features
• Pro Live Map