Somewhat related but I just wanted to brag on my dad:
My dad is a pastor that runs Sunday mornings at a relatively large church. Roughly 600 people on a Sunday morning over a few services; not mega-church, but definitely bigger than the vast majority of Methodist churches. Over time he's become the "technology guy". He's not (or at least wasn't) particularly more competent than most, but wasn't afraid to learn and get his hands dirty, so to speak. Now I would call him plenty sav.
One of his passions is bringing the church to people who can't come to the building. A lot of personal visits to shut ins and hospitals, and recently this meant live streaming. We already had a two camera broadcasting set up, so it was pretty simple to plug it in to the internet (some sort of turn key "send audio and video to this box with an ethernet cable and we"ll stream to everywhere elsed" kinda deals) and off we go.
As an even more aside, I just want to shout out that since the epidemic started he basically started producing 3-4 hours of video each week to live stream.
Anywho, this lead to him asking me how eldery-proof we could make in-home streaming for folks who can't always leave the house, or maybe want to watch VODs if they miss a week or something. I mused that the turn key solution he was using made a few TV streaming options (apps on Fire TV, Roku, Android, etc.) and you could probably set one of those up to start automagically on boot or something.
About two weeks later he calls me up and, to my genuine amazement, has actually come up with a solution. He set up a Roku with a remote that custom app buttons, set up the streaming app (again, this is an app specifically for streaming our church) on one of those buttons, and set the app up in such a way that the first button hops onto the live stream. He even set up pretty good UX studies with a bunch of elderly folks to make sure his instructions were clear!
He ended up getting sponsored for about a hundred of them from a few generous folks around the church and personally set them up in folks homes.
It occurs to me that a combination of Amazon products might yield a similar outcome by way of the Alexa skills system, albeit at the price of asking someone to talk to their Alexa or TV remote. Your solution sounds a little more straightforward for people unsure of technology.
My dad is a pastor that runs Sunday mornings at a relatively large church. Roughly 600 people on a Sunday morning over a few services; not mega-church, but definitely bigger than the vast majority of Methodist churches. Over time he's become the "technology guy". He's not (or at least wasn't) particularly more competent than most, but wasn't afraid to learn and get his hands dirty, so to speak. Now I would call him plenty sav.
One of his passions is bringing the church to people who can't come to the building. A lot of personal visits to shut ins and hospitals, and recently this meant live streaming. We already had a two camera broadcasting set up, so it was pretty simple to plug it in to the internet (some sort of turn key "send audio and video to this box with an ethernet cable and we"ll stream to everywhere elsed" kinda deals) and off we go.
As an even more aside, I just want to shout out that since the epidemic started he basically started producing 3-4 hours of video each week to live stream.
Anywho, this lead to him asking me how eldery-proof we could make in-home streaming for folks who can't always leave the house, or maybe want to watch VODs if they miss a week or something. I mused that the turn key solution he was using made a few TV streaming options (apps on Fire TV, Roku, Android, etc.) and you could probably set one of those up to start automagically on boot or something.
About two weeks later he calls me up and, to my genuine amazement, has actually come up with a solution. He set up a Roku with a remote that custom app buttons, set up the streaming app (again, this is an app specifically for streaming our church) on one of those buttons, and set the app up in such a way that the first button hops onto the live stream. He even set up pretty good UX studies with a bunch of elderly folks to make sure his instructions were clear!
He ended up getting sponsored for about a hundred of them from a few generous folks around the church and personally set them up in folks homes.