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AnchorCast v1.7.1 — Overtime Timer, Projection Visibility & Scripture Detection Improvements

⏱️ Negative Overtime + 👁️ Hide/Show Timer + 📖 Scripture Detection + 📝 History Reliability

This maintenance release makes speaker timing clearer after the allotted duration expires and improves Scripture detection and saved sermon-reference history. It also lets operators hide the timer from projection while it keeps running. It retains the Theme Editor and registration-access changes from v1.7.0.

⏱️ Timer: See How Far a Session Has Run Over

• Countdown continues past zero — the timer no longer stays at 00:00. It continues as -00:01, -00:02, -00:03…, showing the time spent beyond the allotted duration.
• Red blinking continues — the overtime value remains red and blinking. The existing “Thank you. Kindly conclude your session.” message stays on screen, and Flash Faster remains available.
• Consistent displays — the timer control window, operator live preview, projection screen and standalone AnchorCast Timer use the same time calculation and formatting.
• Reopen without losing overtime — closing and reopening a timer control or projection window during the same app session restores the running timer at its current value, including negative overtime. It does not restart the countdown. Count-up mode also preserves elapsed time.
• Operator control — press Stop to end the timer, or Start to begin a new timer using the selected duration. Ordinary Count Up mode remains a positive elapsed-time display.
• Preview fixes — the operator overlay no longer disappears at zero; changing preview size does not reset the displayed time; the conclusion message does not replace the editable session title. A failed timer-start request no longer produces a false running preview.

Example:

:::text
00:03 → 00:02 → 00:01 → 00:00 → -00:01 → -00:02 → … → -01:00

-01:00 means the speaker is one minute over time. Overtime is automatic for countdown mode; there is no extra switch to enable. Timers are not persisted across a complete application quit/restart.

👁️ Hide the Timer Without Stopping It

• Hide on Projection / Show on Projection — a dedicated button hides the timer number, label and overtime conclusion message without stopping or resetting the running timer.
• Keep monitoring privately — the Timer window's operator-only monitor and the quick timer controls' readout keep counting. A clear Hidden on projection — still running status avoids confusing Hide with Stop.
• Show the current time — show the timer again at its current countdown, positive count-up or negative overtime value. Red overtime blinking and the conclusion message return when shown; the timer is not restarted.
• Slides and other overlays are unaffected — hiding the timer does not clear Scripture, songs, videos, presentation slides or the clock/date display.
• Available across desktop timer controls — use the full Timer window, inline timer controls or timer modal. The standalone AnchorCast Timer supports the same button.
• Visibility follows the active timer — reopening projection or the main app's timer controls in the same app session retains the hidden state. Start begins a new, visible timer; Stop ends it. This does not add pause/resume or persistence across quitting the application.

📖 Scripture Detection Improvements

• Split references and verse continuations — improved recognition of references spread across finalized transcript lines, such as “Ephesians 3:20” followed by “And 21.”
• Spoken numbers, lists and ranges — improved handling of full number phrases, ordinal book names, chapter-only context, and references such as “Ephesians chapter one. Verse eighteen and nineteen.”
• Spoken corrections — bounded self-corrections such as “Romans eight seven, I mean eleven” are handled more reliably. Valid explicit reference numbers are not silently changed merely because a different quotation would match better.
• Selected Bible translation — repaired Bible-loading and availability checks so detection uses the selected installed translation. Any KJV fallback or missing verse text is identified in diagnostics.
• Continuous preaching — quotation matching has a bounded pending-search wait rather than being repeatedly postponed by uninterrupted speech. Local detection remains available when optional online detection fails.
• Legitimate repeated quotations preserved — a Scripture quoted again later can be detected and recorded again. Overlapping processing of the same occurrence is coalesced instead of suppressing the reference for the entire service.

📝 Sermon History & Recovery

• Clear panel does not erase detection history — the dismissible AI Detections list and current-transcript detection history are now separate. Clearing the panel preserves earlier references for saved History.
• Recovery includes detected references — the in-progress recovery data includes detection history as well as transcript text. A failed permanent save retains the recovery file.
• Existing saved sessions remain unchanged — this release does not automatically reconstruct previously saved sessions with incomplete detection lists.

🔎 Detection Diagnostics

The AI Detections → Debug log button exports processing decisions, thresholds, missing Bible-text information, selected/fallback translation and panel-versus-History counts. API settings and tokens are excluded, but transcript excerpts may be included; review the file before sharing it publicly.

📦 Downloads

Upgrading from v1.7.0? No new runtime dependencies or data migration are introduced by these changes. The existing registration requirements remain in place for AI Transcription, additional Bible translations, NDI and Remote Control. Back up your app data before upgrading.

Building from source? Include the new src/renderer/js/timer-utils.js and the Scripture Detection patch's src/renderer/js/scripture-references.js. Apply the matching HTML, JavaScript and build-config changes together, including both preload.js and src/preload.js for timer-visibility IPC. Preserve your local assets, Bible data, Python/model folders and private configuration.

Validation scope: 239 Node regression tests passed, including 71 timer/overtime/visibility checks and the 168 existing registration/detection checks. Isolated Chromium checks cover timer visibility, overtime and detection/history; see the included timer visibility test report for the current counts. Native Windows/macOS installers, physical projector behavior, NDI output and real speech-provider audio were not tested in this environment. Complete those checks before publishing installer binaries.