A fork of OpenLP church projection software

11 Aug 2015

• Added a mandatory slide break tool for editing songs - either put [br] tag into song lyrics manually or use UI button to insert at current cursor position

22 Aug 2015

• Changed data directory to openlp-paul so that Paul can run alongside OpenLP 2.0
• Songs now have a key and transpose amount, which the user can edit.
• Song key, transpose amount supported for import from and export to OpenLyrics format (openlyrics.info for full XML description), as well as import from OpenLP format (.sqlite database)

01 Sept 2015

• Chords can now be added to songs. Chord lines must be added on the line immediately preceding the corresponding lyrics and must end with a @. The # symbol can be used to pad lyric lines so that they fit the chords. Chords are stored in a separate database field to the lyrics to avoid interfering with other OpenLP functionality. If chords are used in a song then the key must also be specified to allow the song to save. Edit song dialog only supports Edit All sections.

04 Sept 2015

• Songs with chords can now be exported to and imported from the OpenLyrics format.
• Edit song dialog now supports Add/Edit/Delete sections again.
• Minor changes to chord sanitization routine.

13 Sept 2015

• New route added to httprouter (Remote plugin): /api/controller/live_chords. This returns the chords for the current song (inline with the lyrics), with slide breaks in the same places as in the regular projector output.

30 Sept 2015

• Bug fix - Opening a service plan no longer crashes OpenLP.
• Bug fix - Editing a template no longer crashes OpenLP.
• Disabled OpenLP version checking thread.

19 Oct 2015

• /api/controller/live_chords now returns the transposed chords for the current song, if a transpose amount has been selected for the song.

10 Nov 2015

• In the Theme Wizard, the user can now choose between three different ways of specifying the song area dimensions (Classic, Margins, Proportional).

08 Jan 2016

• Removed /api/controller/live_chords route.
• Added /silas/{update_id} route. Returns musician oriented view of the live controller. Slide data includes (transposed) chords, where used. The song_order indicates current position with parentheses e.g. V1 (C1) V2. Possible JSON-encoded dicts are:
  • {"status": "inactive"} - if live controller not active, else:
  • {"status": "current"} - no updates have occurred, based on value of {update_id}, else:
  • {"status": "update", "update_id": new update_id, "current_slide": "...", "next_slide": "...", "song_order": "..."}

17 Jan 2016

• Update musician oriented view. Route is now /silas/update={update_id}&capo={capo}, both arguments optional. The status=update JSON has an additional field, played_key, indicating the key that the musician will be playing e.g. "E" or "Capo 2 (D)".
• Compacted the song order returned by /silas/

30 Jan 2016

• Added /music route to return a stage view with chords. The capo can be changed from this page.

19 Feb 2016

• Added looped videos (played using VLC) and associated Loop manager component.

10 Sept 2016

• Bug fix: chords render correctly for services that have been loaded in from a save file.
• Bug fix: multiple identical lines rendered on Musician View.
• CSS and JS fixes to improve rendering of Musician View.
• Loop manager can be hidden and shown.

08 Oct 2016

• Base font size of Musician view can be changed by adding the size parameter to the music route: /music?size=n

29 Nov 2016

• Bug fix: songs with optional slide breaks can now be added to service plan without crashing OpenLP.

24 Dec 2016

• Musician view now displays Bible verses and Custom slides.
• Bug fix: Problem with importing Songs of Fellowship song books fixed.
• Bug fix: First-time setup crashes caused by theme modifications (10/11/2015) fixed.

26 Dec 2016

• Added verse order to footer area, set to 150% of footer font size, with current verse indicated by green background (settings hard-coded for the moment).
• Verse order moved to right hand side of footer area. Song info area capped at 60% of total footer width.

27 Dec 2016

• Bug fix: Problem with loading saved Bible passages fixed.
• Issue fixed: Author names including commas caused duplicate songs to be added to the database when service plans containing them were opened. Commas are now removed from authors name to avoid this issue.

21 Mar 2017

• Bible version can be chosen in the remote interface search. The desired version (case-insensitive) should be placed in parentheses in the search string (e.g. John 3:16 (NLT)).
• Added Singers oriented view and associated route.

31 Mar 2017

• Song usage report exports to Excel spreadsheet in addition to text file
• Music controller view added. Currently allows the user to advance to the next or previous slide from a musician oriented view. Route is /music-control

01 Apr 2017

• Music controller view improved. User can advance to start of any song section (verse, chorus etc) by tapping corresponding button in song order.

02 Apr 2017

• Song running order added as a menu to the music controller view. User can change songs within the current service plan by tapping a song in this menu.

17 Aug 2017

• Extra tab added to remote interface allowing the user to quickly add Bible chapters to the service plan.

Known issues

• If a song is live whilst a theme is edited then when that song is redisplayed OpenLP will hang. Current workaround: Display a different song before returning to the initial song.