Broadcast Widget

The Broadcast widget turns a panel into a live-stream wall — curated finance and news feeds, your own custom streams, multi-stream grid view, and picture-in-picture for watching while you trade.

Features

• Curated channel list — built-in finance and news streams, browsable by category
• Custom streams — add any YouTube live, Twitch channel, HLS (.m3u8), or generic iframe URL
• Favorites — star any channel to keep it at the top of the browser
• Multi-stream tabs — run several streams at once and switch between them
• Grid view — watch up to 4 streams simultaneously in a 2×2 layout
• Picture-in-picture — pop the active stream into a floating always-on-top satellite window (desktop app only)
• Presets — save a set of active streams as a named preset and reload it with one click (up to 5 presets)
• Mute control — global mute toggle across all active streams
• Keyboard shortcuts — number keys switch tabs, [/] cycle through them, Esc returns to the browser

Two Modes

The widget has a Browser mode and a Watch mode.

• Browser — search and category filter for curated channels, plus a "My Channels" tab for your custom streams. Shown automatically when no streams are active, or when you press Esc.
• Watch — once you've picked a stream, tabs appear at the top and the player fills the rest of the widget.

Adding a Custom Stream

Click the Add button in the browser to open the Add Custom Stream modal:

1. Enter a Name (how it'll show up in your tabs)
2. Paste a URL
3. The modal auto-detects the type — youtube, twitch, hls, or iframe
4. Click Add Stream

Custom streams persist with your widget config. Delete them from the browser's "My Channels" tab.

Tabs

Each active stream gets a tab at the top of the widget:

• Click a tab to switch to it
• Click the X on a tab to close that stream
• Click the + to open the browser and add another stream
• A small colored dot on each tab shows stream status — grey idle, yellow loading, green live, red error

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts are disabled while you're typing in an input.

View Modes

Toggle between Tabs and Grid view from the toolbar.

• Tabs — one stream visible, the rest hidden but still loaded (so audio and playback continue if unmuted)
• Grid — up to 4 streams rendered simultaneously in a 2×2 layout, each labeled with the channel name

Grid only activates when you have 2+ active streams. With 3 streams, the fourth cell shows an + Add stream button.

Picture-in-Picture

The PiP button pops the currently active stream into a floating always-on-top window (400×225 by default). Great for watching a ticker feed while the main terminal stays focused on your trades.

Presets

Save and load sets of streams:

1. Open the preset menu in the toolbar
2. With your desired streams active, enter a name and click Save
3. Loaded presets replace the current tab set with the preset's channels
4. Delete presets from the same menu
5. Max 5 presets per widget

Presets store only channel IDs, so loading one re-resolves against your current curated list and custom channels.

Categories

The channel browser filters curated channels by category:

A search box above the filter matches channel names.

Data Sources

• YouTube — live video embeds via the YouTube IFrame API
• Twitch — channel player via the Twitch embedded player
• HLS — direct .m3u8 playback
• Generic iframe — best-effort for other streaming pages

All streams are embedded third-party players — CubeTerminal does not host or proxy stream content.