How to Use Slot Groups for Livestreams on StreamKite (Limits & Management)

Once you’re past five or six stream slots, scanning your entire dashboard just to find “the Client A streams” or “the music channels” starts wasting real time. Slot Groups solve that by letting you organize streams into named, color-coded buckets you can filter your whole dashboard down to with one click. Here’s exactly how to set them up, manage them, and the real limits you’ll run into.

Where to find it

Every slot card has a small group button — either “🗂 Group ▾” if it’s unassigned, or the group’s name and color if it’s already assigned. Click it to open the assign popup right there on the card. There’s also a fuller Group Manager, reachable through the sort/filter dropdown above your streams grid.

Creating a group

You can create a group from more than one place, but the fastest is directly from any slot’s group button:

1. Click the group button on a slot card.
2. Type a name into the “New group…” field at the bottom of the popup.
3. Click Add (or press Enter). The group is created and that slot is assigned to it in the same step.

Every new group is automatically given a color from StreamKite’s palette, cycling through the set as you create more — so your first few groups get visually distinct colors without you having to pick anything manually.

Assigning and reassigning slots

Click a slot’s group button any time to open the popup and pick a different group, or select “✕ Remove from group” to leave it ungrouped. Each slot belongs to exactly one group at a time — moving it to a new group automatically removes it from whichever one it was in before.

Filtering your dashboard by group

This is where groups actually earn their keep. Open the sort dropdown above your streams grid and hover over “By Group” — a submenu lists every group you’ve created, each with a live count of how many slots belong to it, plus an “Ungrouped” option for anything you haven’t sorted yet. Click any group and your dashboard filters down to just those slots, with everything else pushed out of the way rather than deleted or hidden permanently — switching back to a normal view is just as easy.

The Group Manager — full control in one place

For bulk changes, open the Group Manager from the same sort dropdown. It lays out every group with its member slots visible as removable tags, plus:

• Rename inline — click directly into a group’s name field to edit it.
• Change color — click the color dot next to a group’s name to cycle to the next color in the palette.
• Assign any slot to any group — a simple two-dropdown selector (pick a slot, pick a group, click Assign) without needing to open that slot’s card individually.
• Delete a group — removes the group itself; its member slots simply become ungrouped rather than being deleted.
• Create new groups — right from the bottom of the same modal.

The real limits you should know about

• Maximum 10 groups per PassKey. Once you hit that, the “New Group” option is replaced with a note saying you’ve reached the cap — you’ll need to delete an existing group before creating another.
• Group names are capped at 10 characters. This keeps labels short and readable on slot cards, but it does mean you’re working with abbreviations for anything longer — “Client A” fits, “Client Acme Corp” doesn’t.
• Group names must be unique. You can’t create two groups with the same name (case-insensitive), so you’ll get a warning if you try.
• One group per slot. A slot can’t belong to two groups simultaneously — assigning it to a new one automatically pulls it out of the old one.
• Deleting a group doesn’t delete the slots. Its members just become ungrouped; nothing about the actual streams, media, or settings is affected.

A practical way to organize with only 10 groups available

Since you’re capped at 10, it’s worth thinking about the grouping dimension that actually helps you the most before creating a long list of narrow ones. A few common approaches:

• By client — if you manage streams for multiple clients, one group per client keeps things clean.
• By content type — “Music,” “Talk,” “Ambient” if you run a mix of niches on one account.
• By platform — though platform badges already show on every card automatically, so this dimension is often already covered without needing a separate group.
• By priority — “Priority” and “Backup” groups if you want a fast way to isolate your most important streams from everything else.

Frequently asked questions

Can I sort slots within a group, like a custom order?
Group filtering shows members together, but ordering within that filtered view still follows your regular sort settings rather than a separate per-group order.

Do addon slots support groups the same way as main plan slots?
Yes — grouping works identically across main and addon slots, with no separate system for either.

What happens to group filters if I delete a slot?
The slot is simply removed from its group’s member list along with everything else about it — no extra cleanup needed on your part.

Is there a way to bulk-assign many slots to one group at once?
The Group Manager’s assign tool works one slot at a time per action, so for a larger batch you’d repeat that step for each slot — there’s no multi-select bulk assignment currently.

The short version

Slot Groups turn a long, undifferentiated dashboard into something you can filter down to exactly what you’re looking for. Create up to 10, keep names short and meaningful, and use the Group Manager whenever you need to reorganize several slots at once rather than clicking through each card individually.