What you need
This is the question every gabbai asks first, so here is the whole answer before you have to ask for it — including the parts that are usually left out until after you have paid.
| A screen | Any TV or monitor with an HDMI socket. Fifty to sixty-five inches suits most shul walls. The board sizes itself to whatever it is plugged into — there is nothing to configure for your particular screen. If the shul already has a TV, that is the screen. |
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| A device | A small box that plugs into the HDMI socket and draws the board. $180 once. We buy it, set it up with your shul's board already on it, and post it to you. It is not a computer anybody has to manage. |
| Wifi, once | Joined to the shul wifi the first time it is switched on. After that it looks after itself. |
It keeps working. The zmanim and the Hebrew date are worked out on the screen itself, and the last saved times are held on the device, so a dropped router is not a blank wall. New edits arrive when it is back.
It comes back on by itself and goes straight to the board. Nobody signs in, nobody finds a remote, nobody is asked to pick an app. That is the whole point — a board that needs a person after every outage is a board that spends half the year showing a screensaver.
Nobody, on the wall. Everything that follows from the date takes care of itself. The only thing a person does is change what only a person knows — minyan times, a shiur, a notice — and that is done from a phone, not from the screen.
He signs in to your shul's own page on his phone, types the change, and the wall has it inside a minute. It is built for a phone, because that is what is in his pocket when he notices mincha has moved.
Yes — a photograph for a Yom Tov, a notice, a picture of the shul. Every Yom Tov also arrives with its own artwork already, so a shul that uploads nothing still gets a proper screen on Pesach.
Chabad or Ashkenaz. The Chitas and Hayom Yom screens can be turned off and everything else stays. What is on the Chabad screens.
| Device, once | $180 — bought, set up and posted to you |
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| Monthly | $49 |
| Yearly | $490 |
| The screen | Yours. Any TV with HDMI. |
| Installation fee | None. You plug it in. |