Live control room and tablet lectern

The control room makes live services more flexible: the Bible projects verse by verse, song sections can be reordered while the congregation sings, and the remote becomes a real lectern on a tablet.

The Bible, verse by verse

1. In the Live panel (Bible tab), the "1 verse = 1 slide" switch is on by default.
2. Whether you type a reference ("John 3:16-19") or select verses in the browser, each verse becomes its own slide, with its exact reference shown ("John 3:17").
3. The congregation reads one full verse, never a wall of text. A very long verse is split cleanly at sentence boundaries.
4. Type a book and chapter without a verse ("Luke 5") to project the whole chapter, verse by verse.
5. Turn the switch off to get the previous "block" mode back (whole passage split into full slides).

Background animations

In Customisation, choose a ready-made animated ambiance (Embers, Night sky, Constellation, Aurora, Light rays, Nebula...) or set the animation separately. These are ultra-light native animations - no video to load, smooth even on an old computer - that bring the screen to life without distracting from the Word. See Customize the display.

The live arrangement rail

When a song slide is on screen, its sections appear above the stage like keys: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2...

1. Tap a section to jump to it immediately.
2. Drag and drop sections to reorder the song during the service: the slides follow.
3. The gold "+ Chorus" button repeats the chorus right after the current section - perfect while the congregation is still singing.
4. A song inserted on the fly from the Live panel now follows its structure (order and repeats) and gets the same rail.

Sermons and quotes: comfortable reading

Sermon parts and prophet quotes are made to be read from the pews:

1. The text takes the full width of the screen, justified like a Word document (left and right edges aligned).
2. The split into several slides adapts to the chosen font size: a bigger font means shorter slides, cut at sentence boundaries.
3. If you enlarge the font mid-service, the slide adjusts automatically so the whole paragraph stays visible - text is never cut off screen.

The summary slide (theme, subject, reference, preacher)

The Summary tab of the Live panel creates the service's anchor slide:

1. Four fields: theme, subject, Bible reference, preacher - prefilled when a sermon is loaded.
2. "Project the summary" inserts it; projecting again updates it without creating a duplicate.
3. The pinned Summary button at the bottom of the control room (or the R key) toggles instantly: jump to the summary during a song, press R again, and you are back exactly where you were.

The remote sees what you are doing

On the phone that scanned the QR:

1. "On screen" shows the current slide (title + start of the text) and "Up next" the following one: the operator anticipates without turning around.
2. The progress bar places the session at a glance.
3. "Go to..." opens a grid of the whole session, colour-coded by type (song, Bible, preaching), centred on the current slide: you are at slide 5, tap 10 or 1, it is projected.

Opening the desk on a phone

The desk does not open on a phone, and that is deliberate. It places the preview, the slide list and the controls side by side: on a narrow screen you cannot see enough to project accurately - and you find that out during the service, at the worst moment.

Below 1024 px wide, Sanctumel therefore shows a clear message rather than an unusable desk. It points to the real path:

1. Open the desk on a computer.
2. Scan its QR code with the phone.
3. The phone becomes the remote - and there, everything works under your thumb.

The tablet lectern

The same QR opens, on a tablet (wide screen), an improvisation lectern: the preacher chooses what to project, without going through the technician.

1. On the left: what the congregation sees, what comes next, and the big Previous / Next / Black buttons.
2. On the right, three tabs:
   • Bible: Testament, then the grid of books, chapters and the starting verse. Once the verse is chosen, "Next verse" / "Previous verse" step verse by verse and roll over to the next chapter.
   • Songs: search the whole church repertoire and project a song in one tap.
   • Message (Message churches): search a sermon of the prophet, open it, and tap the paragraph to project.
3. The slide updates at each send: the session does not fill up with duplicates.
4. The fullscreen button in the bar hides the browser, for a lectern without distraction.

Knowing which screens are answering

Top left, a chip tells you how many screens are answering. Click it: the panel names them one by one - hall screen on this machine, hall screen over the network, stage return, remote.

Three states, not two:

A screen only shows up when it comes for a slide, and outside a session it spaces out its requests: a few seconds of silence are normal.

Two consoles open at once

If someone else opens the same session, a gold banner appears and this console stops sending anything to the hall. Without it, both would push their own position and the screen would flicker between them, with nothing to say why.

The banner names who is driving, and Take over hands control back in one click. Nothing is locked: the person at the back must be able to step in when the console laptop freezes.

The banner also says since when the other console has been driving: "Driven by Marie since 10:05". You can tell at once whether it is the colleague next to you or a console left open since the rehearsal.

A duplicated tab ("Duplicate tab" in the browser) becomes a second console: it does not drive and shows this banner, while the original tab keeps control. A plain page reload stays the same console.

A console that lost control no longer takes it back by itself while the other console stays open, even in the background: only Take over gives it back. If the other console was closed without ending the session, it takes control back by itself after about a minute and a half. And if the session was ended on another device, the banner says so and the console never takes it back by itself: here too, only Take over reopens it.

If someone reopens the session afterwards, the banner names the person driving again, and since when. End the session on a console that is not driving touches neither the hall nor the screens: only the driving console turns them off.

If the machine dies mid-service

The session is saved as you go, on the server - not just in the browser. Reopen the projection from any machine: it picks up where it left off, with the improvised verses, quotes and talks inserted since the start.

That is the point: those never came from any saved data. Rebuilding the service would not bring them back.

When the network is missing

Many rooms have no connection, and projection still has to happen.

Every time a service is projected with network, Sanctumel keeps a local copy of the session on the computer (full running order, church identity, theme). If the network is missing at the next start, the console opens from that copy and says so with an orange banner showing its age.

• The banner is frank about what is missing: songs added since are not in the copy.
• Try again restarts the normal loading - the connection sometimes comes back mid-service.
• An image background falls back to the theme gradient: the image lives on a remote server and would not load.
• The copy is kept for seven days. Beyond that, preparing a fresh session beats projecting a month-old service.

The screens link up inside the room

The output window opened on the same computer (Screen 2) has always worked without a network: it talks straight to the console. Screens opened on other devices went through the server - every slide made a round trip to the Internet just to cross the room.

Not any more. When the hall screen or the stage return is on the same network as the console (the church wifi, or a phone's hotspot), Sanctumel opens a direct link between the two machines. The local badge then appears next to that screen in the screens panel.

What this link changes:

1. The slide leaves with the click. It travels from one end of the room to the other, not across a continent.
2. The connection may drop mid-service. Screens marked local carry on as if nothing happened.
3. Your mobile data is barely used. Once the link is open, the service costs nothing more for those screens.

What still needs the Internet: the very first pairing, once per screen and per session. So open your screens while the connection is there; after that it may drop. The remote still goes through the server.

If the badge does not appear: check that both devices are on the same wifi. Some hotspots isolate their devices from each other (an option often called "client isolation" or "AP isolation"): it has to be turned off in the router settings.

Tips

1. The lectern is ideal for a preacher who improvises: they pick their own passages without going through the technician.
2. On a phone, the page stays the simple remote; on a tablet, it becomes the lectern. One QR for both.

The connection halo

A three-arc halo - the Sanctumel seal's halo - continuously shows your connection quality: gold (excellent), amber (fair), red (weak), the dot alone (offline). Hover it: it suggests the right move - get closer to the router, switch to 4G, or turn off video to keep the audio. In the remote's header: the quality of the link between the phone and the control room, measured on the real exchanges (no extra probe). On a phone, long-press to see the advice.