Audio Guard and Capture Moment: Never Stream Muted, Never Lose the Hit

— Breaker Labs

Every breaker has done it. You mute to take a call, unmute in your head, and stream the next twenty minutes to a chat full of "NO AUDIO." Or the card of the night comes out of the pack, the room goes wild, and you realize afterward that nobody clipped it.

Both of those are now one glance and one click away from never happening again. The Command Center header has two new controls: Audio Guard and Capture Moment.

Audio Guard: your mic, on the dashboard

Connect OBS the way you already do for Add to OBS and Audio Guard appears next to the scene switcher. Pick your primary microphone from the dropdown — it lists only microphone-type inputs, not your browser sources or media — and you get three things:

  • A live level meter. It moves as you talk. If it isn't moving, you already know something's wrong.
  • Mute and Unmute, right there. One click, and OBS's mixer flips with it. Mute from inside OBS instead and the dashboard follows without a refresh.
  • A warning you can't miss. Start streaming with the mic muted and the whole control turns red: Mic muted while live. Remove the mic in OBS, or rename it, and you'll see Mic missing while live instead. Fix it and the red clears on its own.

Your mic choice is remembered per OBS connection, so it's there the next time you open the Command Center. Rename the input in OBS and Audio Guard follows the new name.

The meter runs only while the Command Center is open. Wander off to the editor and OBS stops streaming levels to your browser, so the rest of the dashboard never pays for it.

Capture Moment: the replay and the snapshot, together

Turn on Replay Buffer in OBS (Settings → Output) and set it to 30 or 60 seconds. Then, the instant a hit lands, click Capture Moment. Two things happen at once:

  1. OBS saves the replay to your replay folder, exactly as if you'd hit the replay hotkey. The video never leaves the computer running OBS — we don't upload it, and we don't want to.
  2. A snapshot of your program output — the board, the takeover, the camera, whatever chat was looking at — goes to a private Moments library in your dashboard, tagged with the scene you were on and the widget and view you had focused.

The toast tells you what it got: Replay saved in OBS, Replay buffer was off, or Replay not confirmed if OBS didn't report the file in time. The snapshot saves regardless. Hit Add details on the toast to put a title, team, and buyer on it while it's fresh — every field is optional, and the snapshot is already saved before the dialog opens.

The Moments library

Your captures live under Moments in the sidebar. Each card shows the snapshot, when you took it, the scene, and the replay's filename so you can find the matching video on your PC. Download the image, edit the details, or delete it.

Moments are private. Previews are served on short-lived signed links, never a public URL, and nothing here counts against your widget assets.

Each account holds 25 moments. You'll see a heads-up at 20, and when you're full the Capture button tells you and sends you to the library to make room. We started deliberately small — real usage will tell us where the number should land.

What you need

  • An active subscription or trial.
  • OBS connected in the Command Center. If you haven't set up the WebSocket connection yet, the two-minute guide covers it.
  • For the replay half, OBS's Replay Buffer turned on. Audio Guard and the snapshot work without it.

It's live now

Both controls are in the Stream Command Center today. Pick your mic before tonight's break, and the next time the room goes wild, click the button.