How it works
How Masjid Media works
Two apps and one mosque account. Masjid Media TV runs the display in the hall; the Masjid Media app on a caretaker’s phone decides what it shows. Here is every step of that, screen by screen.
What a mosque needs
Nothing purpose-built. If there is already a screen in the hall, most of this is already there.
- A screen that runs Android TV
- An Android TV set, or any television with an Android TV box plugged into it. Masjid Media TV installs like any other app and takes over the whole screen.
- A caretaker’s phone
- One Android phone is enough to pair the TV and to run everything on it afterwards. The same account also opens in a browser, so a laptop works for the longer jobs.
- An internet connection
- The TV needs one to receive changes. If it drops, the screen carries on from the settings it last received.
Step by step
From an empty wall to a working screen.
Register the mosque
Name, address, a point on the map — then it waits to be verified.
Open the app on the TV
Install Masjid Media TV on the Android TV. It opens on a pairing code.
Scan it from the phone
Point the app’s camera at that code. The TV links itself to the mosque.
Run it from your pocket
Prayer times, running text, announcements — each change lands on the screen at once.
Step one
Register the mosque
A caretaker installs the Masjid Media app, signs in, and adds their mosque: its name, address, a point on the map, and a contact person we can reach.
The mosque is then submitted for verification and stays pending until it is approved — that is what keeps the directory free of duplicates and of mosques nobody actually runs. If something does not add up we say so, and the application can be corrected and sent again.
Pending verification Active
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Create masjid
Create masjid
A new masjid
Latitude
-6.914744
Longitude
107.609810
Name
Al-Hikmah Mosque
Address
Jl. Cihampelas 41, Bandung
Contact phone
+6281234567890
Contact person (takmir)
H. Abdul Karim
Create
Application submitted
We’ll call +6281234567890 to verify. You’ll see your masjid here once approved.
OK
Sample data — interface preview
Step two
Open the app on the TV
Install Masjid Media TV on the mosque’s Android TV and open it. On first launch it registers itself and shows the pairing screen: a QR code on the left, and on the right the download codes for the companion app, for when the caretaker’s phone does not have it yet.
Nobody types the code, and nobody signs in on the television — that is the point of pairing this way. The account stays on the phone; the TV only ever holds a link to one mosque.
Pair Your Device
Scan this QR code with the “Masjid Media” app
Waiting for pairing…
Download Companion App
Scan to download the Masjid Media companion mobile app on your phone
Android
Web
Sample data — interface preview
The code is good for fifteen minutes. If it expires before anyone scans it, the TV quietly issues a new one and keeps waiting.
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Scan TV QR
Point the camera at the code on the TV
Paired ✓
Sample data — interface preview
Step three
Scan it from the phone
In the app the caretaker opens their mosque, goes to TV devices, and points the camera at the screen. That is the whole pairing: the TV confirms, loads the mosque’s settings, and the display comes up.
Only an owner or an admin of that mosque can pair a screen — a follower cannot, even with the code in front of them. How many TVs a mosque may keep paired at once comes from its plan.
Step four
Run it from your pocket
From here the phone is the control room. Everything the screen shows has its own entry in the mosque’s menu, and each change travels to the TV over a live connection — no refreshing, no re-pairing, no walking back to the hall.
The same menu is where a mosque hands the work over: an owner can make another member an admin, so the screen keeps up to date when one person is away.
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Masjid
Owner
Al-Hikmah Mosque
Bandung, West Java
02
TV devices
05
Events
31%
Storage
Sample data — interface preview
- Configuration
- Calculation method and madhab for prayer times, per-prayer offsets, iqama intervals, how long the screen stays in prayer mode, the Hijri date offset, and a fixed Jumuah time for mosques that keep one.
- Running text
- The messages along the bottom of the screen. Add them, drag them into order, and switch one off without deleting it.
- Kiosk slideshow
- Images and YouTube videos for the panel beside the clock, each with its own position in the loop and its own time on screen.
- Events
- Study sessions and everything else on the calendar, one-off or repeating daily, weekly or monthly. They reach the TV and the phone of everyone following the mosque.
- Announcements
- The longer notices that belong in writing rather than in one line of running text.
- TV devices
- Every paired screen, each one renameable, and unpairable the moment a TV leaves the hall.
- Members
- Who else may manage the mosque. Owners and admins manage; everyone else follows.
- Subscription & storage
- The mosque’s plan, and how much of its media quota the uploads have used.
Around every prayer
The screen keeps its own schedule.
Nobody touches the TV at prayer time. It moves through the same sequence at every waktu, on the intervals the mosque configured, and comes back to the normal display on its own.
Prepare for Maghrib
04:32
It’s Maghrib time
Iqamah in
07:00
Straighten and close the rows
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Prayer in progress. Please silence your phones.
Sample data — interface preview
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Before the adhan
A few minutes ahead, the display clears down to a countdown so the hall knows what is coming.
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At the adhan
The screen announces the waktu at full size.
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Until the iqama
A countdown over the interval this mosque keeps between adhan and congregation, under the reminder to straighten the rows.
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During the prayer
Everything goes dark but a dimmed clock, and the screen asks the hall to silence their phones. Nothing moves, nothing glows.
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Afterwards
It returns to the normal display by itself, the countdown already pointing at the next waktu.
Friday has its own handling: a mosque that prays Jumuah at a fixed time sets it once, and the screen holds the khutbah in that same quiet mode for as long as it runs.
Sync
A change lands at once. So does a lost router.
Live, not polled
The TV holds an open connection to the mosque’s settings. A message switched off on the phone leaves the screen in the same breath.
Ready at power-on
The last settings it received stay on the device, so the display is drawn from those the moment the TV boots, then refreshed in the background.
It outlives the outage
When the connection drops, the screen keeps running on those cached settings for up to a day, and catches up by itself once the network is back.
For the community
And on everyone else’s phone
The app a caretaker manages the mosque from is the same one the community follows it with: nearby mosques sorted by distance, one feed holding every event from the mosques you follow, and a reminder before each one starts.
See the community sideCommon questions
- Does the TV need its own account?
- No. Nobody signs in on the television. It holds a pairing to one mosque and nothing else, and unpairing it from the app is enough to retire a screen.
- Can one mosque run more than one screen?
- Yes — repeat the pairing on each TV. How many may stay paired at once depends on the plan: one on Amanah, three on Istiqomah, unlimited on Kaffah.
- What happens when the internet goes down?
- The screen keeps running on the settings it already holds, prayer times included, for up to a day. It re-syncs by itself when the connection returns, and anything changed from the phone in the meantime arrives then.
- Do prayer times have to be typed in?
- No. They are calculated from the mosque’s location using the calculation method and madhab it chooses, with any per-prayer offset it wants applied on top.
- Does any of this have to be paid for?
- Amanah is free forever and it is a complete screen: prayer times, running text and announcements on one TV. The paid plans add screens, storage, and more ways to shape the display.
Ready to bring a screen to life?
Install Masjid Media on a caretaker’s phone, scan the QR on the TV screen, and start on Amanah at no cost.
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