Stream Monitor Companion

Automatically closes Twitch tabs when the streamer raids someone else. Works with Stream Monitor.

Stream Monitor Companion is the browser-side half of Stream Monitor, a Windows desktop app that watches your favorite Twitch streamers and opens their stream the moment they go live. This extension handles everything that has to happen inside the browser: • Raid auto-close: when a streamer you're watching raids someone else, the tab closes automatically so you're not dragged into a channel you didn't pick. An optional "follow through one raid" mode lets you stay for a single hop. • Stays counted as a viewer: Twitch only counts unmuted players, but browsers block unmuted audio in background tabs. The extension keeps the Twitch player itself unmuted (so you still show up in the viewer count) while letting you mute the tab at the browser level. Per-streamer exemptions let chosen channels play out loud. • Watch streak rescue: after your own stream ends, the extension works with the desktop app to reopen the streams you missed in batches of three, rotating every 30 minutes, and finishes with a sweep of Twitch's "Save your Streak" links so nothing slips through. • Page load recovery: if a stream tab fails to load (network error, blank page), the extension notices and reloads it with increasing delays until it comes back. No more returning to a wall of "server not found" tabs. • Keepalive: periodically nudges the player to stop Twitch from dropping you as "idle" in background tabs, and dismisses "click to unmute" and content-gate overlays so streams keep running unattended. Auto-recovers from Twitch's "Click Here to Reload Player" error overlay. • Auto-mute tabs: optional toggle. Opens every Stream Monitor tab with the tab silenced so a dozen streams don't all shout at you at once. • Low-quality mode: optional. Sets every Stream Monitor tab to the lowest available quality to save bandwidth when you're watching many streams in the background. • Max-tabs limit: cap how many concurrent Stream Monitor tabs can be open at once. • Sound settings check: warns you if the browser is set to block sound on twitch.tv (which silently breaks viewer counting) and shows the steps to fix it. • Auto-focus: opens new tabs focused by default, preventing the streak loss that happens when browsers load external links in the background. The extension only activates on tabs opened by the Stream Monitor desktop app (identified by a ?sm=1 query parameter). Tabs you open yourself are left completely alone. Requires the Stream Monitor desktop app running on the same PC. Download: https://github.com/caedicious/stream-monitor