The projector screen
How Himnova Live picks the screen to project on, how to change it, and what happens if the projector disconnects during the service.
Himnova Live uses two windows: the control window, where you work, and the projection window, which goes full screen on the projector or TV. The congregation only sees the projection window. With a third screen, it can also show a screen for the musicians.
When the projection opens
The projection window doesn't open when the app starts. It opens automatically the first time you click GO LIVE, BLACK or LOGO, on the screen set in Projector screen or, if you haven't set one, on the first screen other than the control window's. On a laptop hooked up to a projector, that's the projector. To open it sooner, click Open projector above the Live monitor; it opens on BLACK.
- With two or more screens, it fills the chosen screen, borderless and always on top (unless you choose your own screen; see below).
- With only one screen (a laptop with no projector, for example), it opens as an 800 × 450 window you can move around, for practice. It also looks like that if the computer doesn't detect the projector.
Extended, not mirrored
For the congregation to see only the projection, the computer has to treat the projector as a separate screen:
- Windows: press Win + P and choose Extend.
- macOS: in System Settings › Displays, the projector has to be an extended display, not a mirror of the main one.
- Linux: in the system's display settings, make sure the screens aren't mirrored.
If the screens are mirrored, the congregation sees everything you see, control window and all.
Choose another screen
Open Settings (the gear at the top left) › Projection.
In Projector screen, choose the monitor. Each one lists its resolution and, if the system reports it, the monitor's name. Yours, the one with the control window, says (control screen) next to its name.
If the projection was already open, it moves to the new screen right away, with whatever was live.
Tip: If you choose the (control screen), the projection doesn't cover it. It opens there as an 800 × 450 window you can move around, for practice or for streaming over NDI® without a projector.
If the projector disconnects
If the projector turns off, goes to sleep or the cable comes loose during the service, the projection hides but doesn't close. What was live keeps running, sound included. You'll see “The projector's screen was disconnected…”, and when the screen comes back, so does the picture (“The projector's screen is back”). You don't have to do anything.
If you connect the projector after opening the app, Himnova Live detects it, and if the projection was open on your screen, it moves it to the projector automatically.
While the projection is open, the computer doesn't turn off the screens or start the screen saver.
If the projector stops responding
Open Settings › Projection.
In Projector window, click Close projector and then Open projector.
The projection comes back on BLACK. Click LIVE to show what was live again.
Warning: Closing the projection cuts the sound, because the service's audio plays from that window.
Minimizing the control window also minimizes the projection. Restore it and the projection comes back.
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