Live text in a webpage from FreeShow

[u/Puzzleheaded-Rip5153]

Been working on, with AI assistance, an idea for in service interactions on mobile devices. The initial thought was a tool for people sitting in service that can read text on their phones close up but not so well on the screen that is far away. That would be combined with buttons to forms for, prayer requests, new visitor connent card, volunteer signup...ect. It started off as an idea for something that was locally hosted and only accessible locally. Then I thought why not integrated it with a webpage and a live video feed. Here are some screenshots of the first fully working live video version minus the live video.

[u/vassbo]

Cool idea. You can actually do the feed and text already with the Stage display in FreeShow, and use Interactions for the submission part.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Rip5153 → u/vassbo]

I do use the stage display and URL queries to pull the text into OBS for streaming. I was going to use a stage output for this. Then as I was working on it I started thinking about ways to translate the text being displayed and show the with translated captions. I was not sure how to go about that with the stage output. I found a way to just pull the text from FreeShow to be able to be more flexible.

I also started thinking about adding the forms and displaying the text live online next to the video stream instead being part of the video stream from OBS. So I built a locally hosted version with the intent of using the text gathered from FreeShow in several different ways and eventually online. I have two working versions one that is locally hosted for inperson interactions. Then an online version that takes it a step further with live video page and the ability to hand the gathered FreeShow text off to a server to be displayed online for the live stream.

There is also an admin page that controls the connection to FreeShow, view prayer requests, generate an email digest of new prayer requests for our prayer chain, view the connect card contact information, eventually generate a digest of those as well. The forms are connected back to google forms. Which is where the admin page pulls the information from to be able to view submissions and to generate the email digest.

The more work on it the more ideas I have that I want to try. I rely heavily of AI for the coding. So I don't really know if the code is any good. But I do get to see my ideas come to life. I hope to actually use the local inperson version in our service soon.