Phone messages for the congregation, and team chat
Let a team member send a message from a phone, approve it at the booth before it goes up, and chat with the team during the service.
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Volunteers can send a message to the congregation screens from their own phones. Nothing goes up until the person at the booth has seen it.
Allow a phone to connect
Before a phone can connect it must pass two checks, so a stranger on your Wi-Fi cannot join.
- The phone enters the PIN shown on the desktop.
- The desktop then asks you to approve the device. It shows the device name, who is signing in, and the role it will get.
- Approve only a device you can see someone on the team holding.
Approve a message
When a phone asks to put a message on screen, a prompt appears at the booth with the text and the name of the device.
- Check it before it goes up. This is shown in front of the congregation.
- Edit it if needed. The sender is shown your edited version.
- Approve to send it to the screens, or dismiss it.
Team chat
Each service has its own team chat. Use it for quick notes between the booth, the stage and the band. Every role can read and post in it. A chat message only reaches the Stage screen when the sender's role may put text there: Pastor, Media Team and Worship Leader can, and Worship Team cannot, so the band can talk without writing on the monitor.
For cues that go to the band's stage screen, see Keep the band in sync.
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- Keep the band in sync: cues, click and talkbackSend the band a cue on the Stage screen, run a click on their phones, and speak to them through talkback, all from the Team Sync panel.
- Pair a phone as the remoteConnect a phone with a QR code or PIN, give it a role, and approve it at the booth. Works over your Wi-Fi, or over the app's own hotspot on Windows.
- Choose a role for each phone: Pastor, Media Team, Worship Leader or Worship TeamEvery phone you pair gets a role that decides what it may do, so a drummer cannot black out the screen and a pastor can still draw on a verse.
- Draw on the live screen from your phoneUse the pen and highlighter on the remote to point at a verse, circle a word or underline a line while it is on the screens.