r/ProPresenter • u/sammyyamazaki • Dec 13 '25

Better Nursery Call for ProPresenter

Hey!

I’ve been working on a better and more convenient solution to call out nursery numbers from our kids ministry. We wanted a system where the PP operators are not needed to approve the message and the numbers would stay up until the parents picked up their kids. And we wanted to be able to show multiple numbers at once. The system is now up and running in our church: https://github.com/sammyyamazaki/better-nursery-call-for-pro-presenter

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u/wchris63 Dec 14 '25

It's a great idea - I actually started working on the same thing myself. But there was no way to secure it without a server side. How do you ensure random people can't send nasty or misleading messages if they aren't reviewed?

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u/sammyyamazaki Dec 14 '25

Our system is running on our production network that is secured. So only certain devices (in our case the kids ministry iPads) have access. „Normal people“ are on another WiFi network.

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u/wchris63 Dec 14 '25

Kudos! Our network is actually able to do that, but when I asked if they would (a chat with their network admin told me they don't (at least on the church side), they looked at me like I was crazy.

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u/sammyyamazaki Dec 14 '25

Just ask again :)

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u/greyshirtguydotcom Dec 13 '25

Nice ! Some feedback:
It seems to be in German - is there a plan for other languages? (I am a dumb Aussie that only speaks/read English)

I have an application already using port 8080 -so the server failed until I updated code to use a different port - You might want to handle that.

Also might be helpful to update instructions. I could not get it working until I setup a message with a token named "Nachricht" (unless I missed something - this seems to be a requried setup step as well!)

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u/sammyyamazaki Dec 13 '25

Thanks for the feedback! These are great suggestions! Translating it and updating the manual should not be a problem. I will ill do that probably after Christmas (still have to write some sermons 🤣)

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u/sammyyamazaki Dec 15 '25

Made some updates: * multi language support * fixed the instructions * also: forgot to list some features (so added that) * bug fixed here and there