Church bell app?

[Richmond]

On 18/08/14 00:06, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> I just about choked over the price:  my church is gearing up to pay $6,500
> for a church bell system (and that's because we *already* have the speakers
> from the old system).
>
> I'm scratching my head to figure out why this isn't a matter of a near
> trivial app on a dedicated ipod and an amplifier.  THe hardest part would
> be turning an amplifier on . . .
>
> Does anyone know of such a thing, or an open source project for one?
>
> All it really needs to do is send a signal to turn on an amplifier and play
> sound on schedule, be able to choose the sounds to play on the schedules,
> and be able to play tunes on command (Eastern Catholic & Orthodox play the
> bells during the Anaphora [Consecration]).
>
> Does anyone know about the existence of such a thing, or how much one would
> cost to commission?
>
>
>

That's odd; all the churches I know they have somebody who rings the bells.

By that I mean 'bells' as in 'bells' not fake bells.

Richmond.