Church bell app?

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Obviously, Richmond, if the bell is tolling, it is not tolling for thee.

It seems that $6000 will pay the electrical bill for that amplifier to be left turned on for a long time.

Peter
UCLA

On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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