Beacon/README.md

Beacon

A modern digital signage application for displaying church events, built with Rust and Iced.

Features

• Real-time event display with automatic updates
• Smooth image loading and transitions
• Modern, clean interface design
• Automatic event filtering based on date/time
• Support for high-resolution displays
• Efficient memory management for images

Requirements

• Rust 1.70 or higher
• Access to the church API for events data

Configuration

Create a config.toml file in the application directory with the following settings:

api_url = "https://your-api-server.com/api"
window_width = 1920
window_height = 1080
slide_interval_seconds = 10
refresh_interval_minutes = 5

Building

cargo build --release

Running

./target/release/beacon

Development

The application is built using:

• Iced for the UI framework
• Tokio for async runtime
• Reqwest for HTTP requests
• Chrono for date/time handling

License

MIT License