HeyListen
Mirrors ready checks and whispers from one WoW account to another, so you never miss them while alt-tabbed away or playing without sound on your second account.
Why
If you multi-box two accounts on TBC Classic — boosting one character with the other, while you raid / farm / level the other manually — you've probably missed a ready check after a boost run, or a whisper while focused on the other window. HeyListen mirrors those events from one account to the other, in-game, with a clear visual + audio alert.
- Ready check → full-screen red flash on the receiving account
- Whisper → toast notification (sender + message), top-right corner, movable
No external tools. No background daemon. Pure Lua addon — communication runs entirely inside WoW over the standard addon-message channel.
Requirements
- TBC Classic / Anniversary (Interface
2.5.x)
- Both characters must be on the same realm and same faction (TBC whisper limitation)
- Addon installed on both accounts
Installation
Install via your addon manager (CurseForge app, etc.), or unpack into the AddOns folder:
World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns/HeyListen/
For Anniversary realms:
World of Warcraft/_anniversary_/Interface/AddOns/HeyListen/
Setup
After install, log in on each account and pair it to the other character:
/hey <Charname-Realm>
Example with two characters Stroetroll (Account A) and Andryusha (Account B), both on realm Spineshatter:
- On Account A:
/hey Andryusha-Spineshatter
- On Account B:
/hey Stroetroll-Spineshatter
Verify with /hey test from either side — the other account should see a green TEST toast.
Commands
All commands also work with /heylisten and /hl as aliases.
| Command |
What it does |
/hey <Name-Realm> |
Set the mirror partner (shorthand) |
/hey pair <Name-Realm> |
Set the mirror partner |
/hey unpair |
Clear partner |
/hey status |
Show current partner and state |
/hey test |
Send a test signal to the partner |
/hey mute |
Toggle sound on/off for received alerts |
/hey move |
Toggle drag mode to reposition the toast stack |
Limitations
- TBC Classic does not allow cross-realm whispers, so both characters must share a realm.
- Whispers from your partner to you are not mirrored back (prevents loops).
- If the partner character is offline when an event fires, the message is silently dropped — the addon-message API in TBC does not report delivery failures back to the sender.
- Whisper text longer than ~200 bytes is split into multiple addon messages and reassembled on the receiving side. Very long whispers (multi-paragraph) work but arrive after a brief delay.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Author
Stroe-Spineshatter
