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Smart Chant Box

A companion app for a chanting (jaap) counter gadget: load photos and chants, control playback and keep your mala count.

Status: Status TBA
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Web
  • Hardware

A first look

Brand and welcome screens only. Feature screens are not shown here.

  • Smart Chant Box: phone screen, light theme
  • Smart Chant Box: phone screen, dark theme
  • Smart Chant Box: phone screen, light theme

Problem

A chanting counter is only as good as the way you set it up and keep count. Loading content onto a small device is usually fiddly.

Vision

A physical chanting device and a companion app designed together as one ecosystem.

Core features

  • 11 photo-and-chant slots with CRC-32 checked upload

  • Play, loop and sleep timer

  • Mala counter with history

  • Wi-Fi setup for the gadget over Bluetooth LE

  • Built-in demo gadget, so the app can be tried without hardware

Target users
Devotees who use a jaap counter.
Platforms
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Web
  • Hardware
Current status
Status: Status TBAA public status will be added when the product is ready to announce.Android is at version 1.0.0 with a demo gadget built in. The device protocol is defined and implemented in the software, but a physical gadget that speaks it is not shipping yet. The Play Console listing is still open and there is no public web address.

Technology

Taken from the project's own build files.

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Google Play Billing
  • Google Sign-In
  • SwiftUI
  • XcodeGen
  • PWA
  • Bluetooth LE
  • Wi-Fi provisioning
  • CRC-32

Architecture

What exists in the project today.

  1. Gadget · screen, speaker, buttons
  2. BLE / Wi-Fi protocol · CRC-32
  3. Companion app · Android / iOS
  4. Web dashboard · PWA
  • Built
  • Partly built
  • Planned

Future roadmap

  1. Build the physical gadget that speaks the protocol.
  2. Finish the Play Console listing.

Public links will be added when available.