Manwithnoname

problem is, it just shows one monthly task assigned to 4 people. i would prefer a weekly task. however while playing around with it tonight i think i can rename one of the garden maintenance tasks and use that.

hi all. I look after maintenance in my KH, - most of the jobcards in the maintenance box are monthly or longer which works fine with the maintenance system in NW scheduler. but one jobcard - the fire safety one - requires the fire alarm to be tested weekly. but i cant figure out a way for that to be shown - the nearest i can get is a monthly card/notification with 4 names listed. i want the group doing hall cleaning to be responsible for testing it but as it keeps being forgotten i would like an additional weekly reminder. any thoughts on a way to do it? ( i did put in a feature request to the developers ages ago) thanks for an input.

This may not be the issue/solution for your situation, but I will mention it anyway ... in our hall we need to use 2 cameras because of the platform layout. (It's an old building with pillars at the front of the platform) so to manage the cameras we use OBS, which also allows us nice things like scene transitions between a zoomed in podium view, full platform view, reader, table etc. it also allows us to just have a scene which displays whatever is on the platform screen, for songs and videos, instead of having to do a screen share on zoom. But we had a problem where the audio on the music wasn't coming through very clear. Basically zoom was viewing the music as if it were background noise through a microphone and filtering much of it out. Setting the background noise filter in zoom audio settings to "low" sorted it for us. But if your using screen share on zoom that is probably not a solution as the audio isn't filtered during zoom screen share.

So we are using it alongside our previous way of working ( using a WhatsApp group for coordination) while we decide whether to use it as our primary means of maintenance tasks organisation. It's worked fine, sends alerts and notifications in a similar way to hall cleaning etc. The documentation can be attached electronically and you can share tasks to users and groups in another congregation. Only issue we have is it doesn't allow the choice of assigning weekly tasks, eg fire alarm testing.

Hi all. Can i just draw on the accumulated knowledge here please. i am Maintenance Coordinator/op.commitee chairman in my hall so use the maintenance section of the program. only issue i have found is there is an occasional weekly task - eg testing the fire alarm that needs scheduled. as far as i can see the maintenance tasks can only be assigned monthly. has anyone any suggestions as to what i could do here? i know it could be possible to schedule a custom task in one of the other schedules but i dont especially want to have edit rights for the other schedules unless necessary. any suggestions welcome. thank you Kevin

Thank you. Apologies if I inadvertently added to the workload of things to hide 😬

As Floyd said, make sure you have dual monitor use setup in Zoom settings, as per the branch direction. When this is set up it means the platform monitors actually have both the JW app and the second zoom windows displayed at the same time - it's just that one is in front of the other, ( has the focus over the other.) So you only see one as it's full screen. Then if you hover your mouse over either the zoom icon or the JW app icon on the taskbar 2 small preview windows will popup - one is the main program window, the other is the second screen window. Just click on the second screen you want and it will come to the front, or be the visible focused window, on the platform screens. Doing this makes it pretty smooth to switch between them.

Just a general comment on this subject, - perhaps not applicable directly to the question asked, but just to point out that the direction for meeting parts is that we don't use video clips in meeting parts unless we are directed to do so. Still images are fine. Sfl 20:20. But there are exceptions like sign language congregations.

same green screen as I have. 🙂 Just be aware that JW stream studio has no facility for using a green screen or virtual background. So if you have an item on the program and plan to use it you will need to use an external program, eg OBS. Also it's worth mentioning this is the guidence given to brothers with parts on JW stream studio..... " If possible, use a blank wall for your background. Avoid backgrounds with very bright lighting or distracting objects. Do not use a virtual background." But In reality as long as your virtual background doesn't look like a virtual background to those viewing, and your lighting is really good, the tech team might be fine with it, but just be prepared you may be asked to remove it if it's causing problems or is distracting, so have a plan B in mind.

Perhaps try logging out of the account, set up a free one using a different email address, log in on the new free account, start a meeting and try screen share. This might help determine if it's a setting somewhere, as AFAIK a different free account will just have the default settings loaded. The settings used during the meeting will be specific to the account used for that.

I've done the update and all is good. i can share JW library both as a window and using second screen. Perhaps check your sharing settings in the settings tab on zoom.us Especially the one under " meetings (basic)" > "disable desktop screen sharing for meetings you host". If this is set to on, apps such as JW library, are no longer available to screen share.

Just a couple of tips re: virtual backgrounds. - lighting is the most important thing. If using a green screen you need consistent lighting across it. So make sure the green screen is a flat and wrinkle free as possible. ( Mine is stretched over a frame. ) Use lighting from more than one angle to minimise shadows. Eg imagine you are stood at the point of a triangle - you get best effect with at least 2 lights placed at the other points of the triangle in front of you. ( This is similar to what the JW stream studio manual recommends.) - if setting a plain background as your virtual background, use a textured image, - any block of colour behind you with no texture or variation is going to look unnatural. Eg I use a light cream background but it's a picture of a light cream wall so it has imperfections and gradients and most dont realise it's not a real wall behind me. I also use a light blue version sometimes.

Ok, I understand now. I have used OBS in a similar way as a virtual camera capture device and it worked well.

Isn't this just the same as turning on the view media in second screen option in JW library and then capturing the window, except there's the added complication of OBS and OBS virtual Camera drivers being in the middle of it all? 😁 But it does work fine for capturing other apps.

In JW library app ( on windows) if you go into settings select the play video on second screen option, and then restart the app. - if you have physical 2 nd screen connected the media will play there. - if you only have 1 screen then the app will open a second window that will display media just as the real second screen would. You can then capture that in zoom screen share.