Features
Everything it does.
The complete list — nothing here is planned or promised; it's what the device does today.
The adhan, automatically
- Plays the adhan at all five daily prayers, every day, completely unattended.
- Times are calculated for your exact location — not a generic city.
- No subscriptions, no cloud account, no phone in your pocket needed.
Casting — every speaker in the house
- Broadcasts to Google Cast / Nest speakers and displays on your Wi‑Fi: one speaker, several, or the whole home at once.
- Per-speaker control: on/off, individual volume, and per-sound routing — the Qur'an in the lounge never wakes a child's bedroom.
- Finds your speakers automatically, and quietly re-finds them if the network hiccups.
- Works with Google Cast devices — not Amazon Alexa.
Your own sounds
- Upload your own audio — your preferred adhan, reciter or dua — and choose which file plays for each event. You can even record the adhan in your own voice.
- Ships with a full built-in audio library, so it works out of the box.
Beyond the adhan
- Pre-prayer reminders before a window closes (before sunrise, before Asr, before Maghrib).
- Morning and evening dhikr at times you set, with a bedtime cut-off.
- Surah al‑Kahf every Friday, plus a Friday prayer dua.
- Qur'an programmes — any surah at a fixed time or relative to a prayer (Yasin fifteen minutes after Maghrib, say). Six surahs pre-loaded.
- Wake-up alarm, Suhoor alarm for Ramadan, and Eid takbeeraat.
Accurate, configurable times
- Multiple calculation methods (ISNA, MWL, Umm al‑Qura, Karachi, Egyptian, Diyanet and more) and the Asr juristic method (madhab).
- Sensible Fajr and Isha rules, including high-latitude handling for UK and European summers.
- The Hijri date, alongside the Gregorian.
Considerate by design
- Quiet hours drop background audio to a neighbour-safe level, or silence, through the night — but the adhan always plays clearly.
- Designed so a software glitch can never mute the call to prayer.
The clock
- A striking 24-hour dial: one hand, one full turn a day, midnight at the top, noon at the bottom — the whole day at a glance.
- Each prayer's portion of the day carries its own scene and light; the current hour glows over a shifting aurora.
- Live countdown to the next prayer, weather, moon phase and date; a 12-hour face and a TV mode too.
Control from anywhere in the house
- A clean web dashboard from any phone, tablet or TV browser — nothing to install.
- Add it to your phone's home screen with a one-tap Stop button.
- A guided first-run wizard, full settings, sound tests, Emergency Stop, and a play history that confirms audio reached the speakers.
- Interface in English, Dutch, French and Arabic.
Set it and forget it
- Runs 24/7 on a low-power Raspberry Pi — no PC, no screen required.
- A watchdog confirms the audio actually played.
- Updates itself overnight and rolls back automatically if anything's wrong.
For the whole family
- Run a unit in more than one home — parents, children, relatives in other cities.
- Built-in secure remote access, so you can help a family member's device from anywhere.
What you need
- Home Wi‑Fi and at least one Google Cast / Nest speaker or display.
- Available ready-to-go, or as a free do-it-yourself install — the software is open source (email me for it).