Quelea is relatively mature and it’s fair not to expect many new additions, but sometimes we … I need more. I argued my point for a while, however, development seems to be focused on bug-fixing (fair enough!) and the rest is snail passed or in a state of undefined no-progress.
Hence, I present to your pleasure a sort of experimental branch: GitHub - JessyJP/Quelea at DEPLOY
Really, it’s just things I want to see there and while I won’t brake stuff I won’t guarantee something might not break. Though in fairness I put enough safeguard even if the feature fails it won’t crash the app.
What’s new so far:
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A MIDI module , it works great!
Status: pretty much done, but might need to edit the text properties instead of from the UI. UI is good for reading them. (there is an external python app I was using initially for configuration testing as well )
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Removed the annoying compulsory password. Now it can be empty! The app just connects outright. Fantastic!
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Some bugfixes, typos, and Gradle update to make it compile.
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mDNS, proxy test internal and as external python app. This is great for consistent and friendly URL like http://remote:1112. Every time regardless of network the same simple URL.
Status: At least that’s the idea. The internal mDNS didn’t work for me but the external python app did. Maybe I am doing something wrong.
Anyone wants to give it a shot at debugging it?
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Oh yes and better URL colours.
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Live panel only. Or the option to hide the preview window!! Yes half screen and direct control (think OBS studio and live modes).
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Much Improved (still working on it) control server and frontend.
The server was done in a bit bad way, meaning it was ok but lacking flexibility. Now you just drop a file like so
And just do any frontend changes very easy, just like a normal web server. It can also now serve arbitrary content such as icons, images, videos etc. if needed. -
We don’t even need a mobile app anymore. But this is still work in progress
- With a friendly name and full screen button now we can pretty much use it like the android app.
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Open schedule will hide other title buttons so that they don’t get in the way while it’s open.
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Improved and adjustable response and other configurations for the frontend which will be persistent for that specific device.
Status: still work in progress
Next/Upcoming:
- I will be working song preview and bible search bar for super quick add from both the frontend and the main panel.
- Show/Hide of the controls.
- Text colour and size options.
- This is all quite useful for small phone displays.
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Possibly:
- Pure text API for OBS or green screen
- Remote view for multimedia.
- Audio device selection for preview and live.
- e.g preview to headphones while live to main speakers.
- YouTube link directly play from inside quelea.
- Alters in from the remote.
- Transpose buttons in the remote and maybe the option for chords.
- Offline frontend mode so that it can keep the song database copy without the backend.
- Progressive app
- Proper bible search-bar
- Some other creature comforts.
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I am not making guarantees but feel free to share your ideas or requests and check out the branch.
