[Feature Request] Allow firebot to work on startup

[CrowbarToolsRobot]

@CorporalGigglesworth via Discord:

Allow firebot to work on startup and be minimized to system tray

[Sam-Beynon]

Request by Alexandremix via discord. do you understand that for a random streamer this would be a game changer? because usually streamers like to open up the OBS a click Start stream. and not worry for anything. This way you have several ways that a user can : forget, acidentaly close the app. therefore some commands does not work. then frustation comes attached to this. then they eventualy decide to maybe not use the app. And I believe that you want your users to stick around.

maybe consider adding both this options. Its something soo simple to add. almost every software has this. And I metioned that I can add to the start program folder. but the software opens up in front. and it can easily happen that you close it. And I hate to see a software oppened in the taskbar. I like to have softwares running in background. Computers have so much ram nowadays that i makes no difference. to have background tasks running imagine having everysoftware working like yours. I'd have in the task bar, spotify, nvidia control panel. Epic games, steam, cloud backups, steam, battlenet, origin, razer, steelseries, etc etc etc. tons of programs in the task bar. taking up all the space

1. Allow firebot to launch on startup WITH twitch integration activated (chat etc)
2. Allow firebot to be minimised to the windows system tray (right side of the taskbar)

[alexandremix]

I agree ahaha 👍 I noticed that you also have to click on the connect to twitch button, remember to consider making this connecting when the app starts, or at least add a setting for this.

[Firebottle]

@Concede @alexandremix For the "auto connect on start" you can create an event in firebot that triggers "on firebot startup" and add the effect "toggle twitch connection". That will automatically connect to twitch on application start.

[ebiggz]

I did some research on allowing firebot to be minimized to system tray. One thing we will have to consider is sound effects would now longer work if firebot doesn't have an open window. A caveat being if the user is sending sounds to the overlay browser source.

[TioMecanico]

Found a couple more requests for this in the discord recently.

[SReject]

Partially complete: Next update will include Minimize to Tray.

[alexankitty]

Here's a setup that will make firebot autoconnect at startup. This should work as a solution until there's a more official implementation.
Auto Connect.firebotsetup.zip

[Firebottle]

Since you can set up firebot to auto connect and you can minimize it to tray per sreject's comment, then we can probably close this one.