ProDeck

The production booth, in one app. ProDeck runs on a Mac in your booth and ties the room together: ProPresenter, Planning Center, your consoles, crew phones, kiosk screens, lobby NFC discs, and your livestream — all feeding drag-and-drop dashboards that the whole team can see from anywhere.

Built with Tauri 2 (Rust) + React/TypeScript, plus two small Cloudflare Workers for the optional cloud features.

What it does

• Dashboards — widget grids (rundown with computed clock times, now/next, slide grid, SPL + RTA, timers, readiness lights, stage feed…) served to the booth screen, browsers, phones, and kiosks from a built-in web gateway.
• ProPresenter — live status, slide thumbnails, transport, layer clears, playlist control, slide-note-driven automation.
• Planning Center — plans, rundown, teams, per-song key/leader/mic chips, PCO Live control, mic-assignment maps that push channel names to the desk.
• Crew phones — installable web app: pages that buzz (scoped to who's actually serving), team chat, checklists, auto check-in by network or geofence, poster-QR signup with booth approval.
• TapLink — NFC discs whose destination follows the service: a slide with tap: give in its notes retargets every disc in the building the moment it goes live.
• Try it with no equipment — demo mode fills every dashboard with a sample Sunday (plan, team, live slide, SPL, console) so you can see what ProDeck does before connecting anything. It writes nothing.
• Runs unattended — one switch installs a watchdog that relaunches ProDeck after a crash and starts it at login, plus a sleep guard for the booth Mac.
• Backup & restore — one file holds settings, dashboards, crew, checklists and reports; restore it on a new Mac.
• Built-in help — a ? on every settings card, a redacted diagnostics bundle, and one-click problem reporting.
• Consoles — Allen & Heath Avantis, dLive, and SQ over MIDI-TCP, and Behringer X32 / Midas M32 over OSC: live mirror of mutes, faders, scenes (and names/colours everywhere except SQ, whose protocol carries none), a desk watchdog that pages one person about setup changes, and admin-only control (mutes, faders, names, scene recall) from any dashboard; song-key MIDI send for FOH plugins. Only the Avantis has been tried against real hardware — the others are built from the published protocols and tested in software.
• OBS Studio — current scene, streaming/recording state with elapsed time, and dropped frames, on any dashboard. Turn on OBS's WebSocket server and put the port and password in Settings → OBS Studio.
• Booth-off resilience — with the optional Cloudflare setup, your domain serves a read-only plan + working chat even when the booth Mac is off.
• Live viewers — realtime watch-page count via GA4.

Every feature is independent: run the core with nothing but a Mac, ProPresenter, and Planning Center, and add the rest when you want it.

Install (the easy way)

1. Download ProDeck.dmg from the latest release.
2. Open it and drag ProDeck to Applications.
3. First open only, on modern macOS (Sequoia/Tahoe): double-click ProDeck → you'll see "not opened" → open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to ProDeck → confirm. You only do this once. macOS asks because the app is free and not Apple-notarized — the code itself is open here for anyone to read.

That's it — no toolchain, no terminal. Runs on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, macOS 10.15 or newer — tested on the current release, macOS 27.

ProDeck checks for updates when it launches and offers to install them in one click — you won't need to come back here for new versions.

Downloads live at whiteoakmedia.io/tools. If an update ever fails, grab a fresh copy from there and drag it over your existing ProDeck — your settings, dashboards, crew and reports live outside the app and are untouched. Copies downloaded before 6 September 2026 were built against a placeholder update feed and can never update themselves, so they must be replaced by hand once.

What changed in each version: CHANGELOG.md.

Why the extra click? Apple charges $99/yr for the Developer ID that removes this prompt. Until ProDeck is notarized, macOS treats it like any other free unsigned app: safe to run, but you approve it once in Settings.

Then connect your tools inside the app (all in Settings, all optional): the first-run walkthrough covers ProPresenter, Planning Center, and browser access; everything else has its own Settings card.

Build it yourself (developers)

Prefer to build from source, run in dev mode, or make your own signed installer?

git clone https://github.com/whiteoakmedia/prodeck.git
cd prodeck
bash scripts/setup.sh            # prereqs, config, run in dev mode
bash scripts/setup.sh --install  # …make it a permanent, self-relaunching booth install
bash scripts/build-dmg.sh        # …or just produce a fresh ProDeck.dmg

The setup script checks prerequisites (Xcode tools, Rust, Node), asks for your environment as it goes, and writes site-specific values to gitignored local files — your fork never carries your church's config in code.

Crew and TapLink, explained

• docs/CREW.md — accounts, joining, approval, roles, and what the two passwords actually decide.
• docs/ROUTING.md — the signal map: paste your patch list, and the "No sound?" walk that tells a volunteer what the booth already checked.
• docs/TAPLINK.md — the lobby NFC discs: what you need, how to deploy your own edge, links, discs, slide tags.

Both are also in the app: Help in the sidebar, searchable, offline.

The full guide

docs/ADOPTERS_GUIDE.html is the honest evaluate-then-adopt handbook: every feature with its requirements, what's site-specific, realistic effort estimates, and the phased path from a spare-Mac trial to tap discs, kiosks, and a booth-off-resilient domain.

Windows preview

The current source contains an unvalidated Windows port. Work to compile and test it is tracked in WINDOWS.md. Until the Windows checklist has been completed on real booth hardware, the supported release remains macOS.

Requirements

• A Mac for the booth app — Intel or Apple Silicon, macOS 10.15+, tested on macOS 27 (clients can be anything with a browser)
• ProPresenter 7 with its network API enabled
• Planning Center Services
• Optional per feature: Cloudflare (free) + a domain, an audio input, an an Allen & Heath console (Avantis / dLive / SQ), NDI®, a Stream Deck + Bitfocus Companion, NFC tags, GA4

Honest posture

This is one church's production tool, shared as-is: no support contract, no warranty, and a single maintainer whose priority is his own Sunday. ProDeck can change things in ProPresenter and on your console (Automix moves faders, the speech mics open and close, desk scenes recall), so rehearse with every feature you turn on before you rely on it in a service, and read the guide's limitations section first. Nothing that moves the desk starts on its own.

Contact

Zach Green — [email protected]

Maintainers

• ProDeck — @whiteoakmedia (Zach Green)
• Windows — @jpeters0 (Peterson), who wrote the Windows build tooling, CI and the WINDOWS.md validation checklist, and who has Windows booth hardware to test them on. He also found and fixed the Planning Center filter=future bug that dropped the current day's plan mid-service.

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE. Use it, change it, run it at your church. No attribution required beyond keeping the notice; no warranty of any kind.

ProDeck includes open-source components under their own licences, listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt and in the app under Settings → About → Licences. One of them, the LAME MP3 encoder, is LGPL; the complete source of every release is this repository at its version tag.

Privacy

ProDeck has no tracking. It sends White Oak Media crash reports and an anonymous daily count that one copy is in use (a random ID, the version, Mac or Windows), both of which you can turn off in Settings, plus your email only if you ask for release notes. What it sends, and where, is in docs/PRIVACY.md.

Trademarks

ProDeck is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of the products it works with. ProPresenter is a trademark of Renewed Vision; Planning Center of Ministry Centered Technologies; Dante of Audinate; Avantis, dLive and SQ of Allen & Heath; Stream Deck of Corsair (Elgato). NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB (ndi.video). The ProDeck and White Oak Media names and logos aren't covered by the MIT licence.

Contributing & security

CONTRIBUTING.md covers how to run it (no church hardware needed — there's a demo mode) and what a good change looks like here. Security problems go through SECURITY.md, not a public issue.