Herald SignageHERALDSignage
Proclaim · Inform · Inspire

Every screen in the building,
run from one page.

And still right when the room fills up.

Herald runs the lobby loop, the hallway displays, the menu boards, and the feed out of your control room. The players are small boxes you own, one behind each screen. The media stays in your Drive. Set it once and it keeps going on the mornings you are busy doing something else.

Sign inEverything it doesWhat to buy

Runs on a small player you own. Your media stays yours.

At a glance
Runs on
a small box behind each TV
Live video
under a second behind
If a feed drops
straight back to the loop
Setting up a screen
about ten minutes
Left alone
runs for weeks
Your media
stays in your Drive
Multiviewer · Main campus
9 screens0 offline
Main Hall
Live
from the auditorium01:12:44:03
Lobby
Playlist
Fall series · item 4/9
Foyer
Playlist
Fall series · item 4/9
Cafe
Web page
Menu board
Kids Check-in
Slide
Room assignments
Nursery
Live
Following Main Hall
Youth
Countdown
Doors in 12 min
North Hall
Ticker
Announcements
Office
Asleep
Power on at 07:45

This is the wall view, and you can leave it open on a monitor in the booth. Each frame is a real screenshot pulled off the player, not an icon standing in for one.

Hardware

Small computers, doing one job well.

A small computer behind each TV (a Raspberry Pi, about the size of a deck of cards), and a Mac in the control room if you want live video. That is the whole shopping list. No rack of appliances, and no per-screen licence on somebody else’s box.

NodeRaspberry Pi 5

One per screen. Plugs straight into the TV, plays full HD video, and works just as well on a screen mounted sideways.

RelayA Mac in the booth

A small app in the menu bar of the Mac you already have in the control room. It sends your live feed to the screens.

CloudHosted for you

The dashboard everything talks to. We run it, keep it updated, and back it up every night.

What to buy, and what to avoid →
What it does

The boring parts, handled.

Herald was built inside a working AV control room, which is why it worries about the things that actually break on the day it matters.

Content

Playlists that know what day it is

One loop holds images, video, web pages, and a live stream, and every screen in a room runs it off the same wall clock so two displays side by side never drift apart. Scheduling goes past weekdays: every other Tuesday, the third Sunday of the month, the week before Christmas, six days after Easter. Put an expiry date on a slide and it takes itself down. Nobody has to remember to pull the Easter graphic on Monday.

  • Any schedule you can describe
  • Knows when Easter is
  • Screens in a room stay in step
Live video

The overflow room, without the cable run

Take the feed from the switcher in your control room, or straight from the computer already running the service, and put it on any screen you choose. It travels over the network you already have, so there is nothing new to pull through the ceiling.

  • No new cable to run
  • The video stays in your building
Reliability

The screen fixes itself before you hear about it

Screens keep playing when the internet doesn't, because everything they need is already on them. If something does go wrong, a screen works through fixing itself one step at a time, up to a full restart, rather than sitting there showing nothing. Either way it tells you what happened, so a screen that quietly recovered on Sunday morning still leaves you something to read on Monday.

  • Keeps playing with no internet
  • Updates itself, and undoes a bad one
  • Left running for three weeks straight
Fleet

You can see the screens from here

Ask any screen what it is showing and it sends back a picture. The wall view puts every screen on one page you can leave up in the booth. Herald also keeps a record of when each screen was up, so "was that one dark last Sunday" has a real answer instead of a shrug.

  • See every screen from your desk
  • A record of what actually played
Access

Volunteers can post without getting the keys

Slide templates hold the fonts and colors steady no matter who fills them in. A volunteer opens the post page on their phone, types the announcement, and it lands only on the playlists you opened to them. Roles scope down to a single site if you run more than one campus, and every action carries a name in the audit log.

  • Volunteers only reach what you open
  • Separate access per campus
Emergency

One button for the worst day

An override takes every screen at once with a message you wrote in advance, and clears just as fast. It survives a reboot, so a power blip during a lockdown doesn't put the lunch menu back on the wall. You can fire it from your phone in the parking lot. Nothing to unplug, nothing to remember under pressure.

  • Every screen at once
  • Stays up through a power cut
  • Written ahead, sent in one tap
The full list, feature by feature →
Signal flow

Live video that behaves like broadcast gear.

You pick what to send and which screens get it. The video itself goes straight across your own network, and never leaves the building.

What you can send

Your video switcher, or the computer running the service

How it gets there

Over the network you already have

Picture

Full HD, smooth, under a second behind

A screen switching off

Doesn't disturb the picture on any of the others

If the feed stops

The screen returns to its loop instead of going black

Security

Nothing on your network is opened up to the internet

Live pathOn air
CLOUDyou, in a browserRELAYsends the feedswitcher or computerNODEdrives the screenplugs into the TVover your networkyou, from anywhereTHE VIDEO NEVER LEAVES YOUR BUILDING.
VideoControl
Integrations

It meets the tools you already use.

Nobody wants a second place to type the same announcement.

Google Drive

Your library stays in your Drive

Point Herald at a folder and it mirrors both ways. Drop a video in from your phone and it is on the wall a minute later. Reorganize the folder and the library follows. You keep your own copy of everything, so there is nothing to export if you ever walk away.

Planning Center

Enter the event once

Herald reads your Planning Center calendar and renders each upcoming event through a slide template you designed. Edit the event in PCO and the slide is redrawn. The slide expires when the event ends and drops out of the playlist on its own.

Web and data

Anything a browser can draw

Put a live web page on a screen: a giving total, an attendance board, next week's roster. Pages that need a login work too, and nothing sensitive ever sits on the screen itself. Countdowns to the next service and scrolling messages are built in.

Pricing

Priced for a real budget.

Two screens, free, for as long as you want them.

Free
$0forever
2 screens
2 GB media
1 location
No live video

The whole product, just smaller.

Sign in
Included on the free plan
Offline alertsScreenshotsScheduling and rotationsEmergency overrideRemote updates with rollbackGoogle Drive syncPlanning Center syncAudit logUptime and proof of play

Player kits arrive ready to plug in at $349, or $299 on an annual plan. Setting one up on a Raspberry Pi you already own costs nothing extra and takes about ten minutes. Alerts, screenshots, scheduling and remote updates are on the free plan, because reliability is not an upsell.

Put something on the lobby screen before lunch.

Plug the player into the TV, type the six digit code it puts on screen, and pick what to play. That is the whole setup, and the free plan covers two screens for as long as you want them.

Sign inSee what to buy