2.6.5

API

  • Added option to enable Sentry for error monitoring
  • Update to Node v10.19.0 and related packages

Web Interface

  • Improved scheduler for both channels and meetings, including better timezone support and error handling
  • Improved text selection on clock primitive layouts

Client Interface

  • Added option to display 24HR clock on homepage

Remote Interface

  • Fixed an issue where screen group administrators were not seeing devices

2.6.0

Client Interface

  • Devices can display a QR code when the menu is open. Users with mobile phones can scan the QR code from the camera application, or from within the Remote interface

Remote Interface

  • Added a way to scan QR codes from Client web

2.5.9

API

  • Fix for Zoom integration regarding user creation

Remote Interface

  • Redesigned the screen selection page to only show online devices

2.5.3

API

  • Added Kerberos support for users using Active Directory

Client Interface

  • Improvements to Silverlight player

2.5.2

Web Interface

  • New Content Library Playlist and Content Library Search primitive assets
    • Content Library Playlist: Create rotating playlists of videos to display on the Band Client
    • Content Library Search: An interactive video search primitive on Band Client that lets users choose content

2.5.0

Web Interface

  • Create, schedule, or join Zoom meetings with new Zoom integration
    • Manage and edit meetings from the Scheduler or the new Meetings tab
  • New Hardware dashboard to manage and update Band devices (Linux only)
  • Added ability to adjust theme primary and secondary colors for Web, Remote, and Client interfaces
    • Remote theme inherits from the Web interface
  • New primitive assets added:
    • PDF: Upload and display single and multi page PDFs
    • Clock: Customize and display the time in any timezone
    • Flag: Support for all countries worldwide
  • Added Channel groups, and support for Channel and Layout subgroups
  • Ability to add Channel group and Layout group administrators
  • Team administrator privileges are now split up into individual sections for granular permissioning

Client Interface

  • All new redesigned Client interface with customizable theming, adjustable from the Web interface
  • Ability to switch channels or teams using the URL, and all links are now shareable (User must have permission to view content)
  • Supports WebRTC live streaming from Remote interface

Remote Interface

  • All new redesigned Remote interface for mobile and desktop
  • Live stream capability through a devices camera or screen share using WebRTC
  • Added ability to select multiple screens or screen groups to control all at once
  • Start new or join existing Zoom meetings, and control devices with a new remote control interface for meetings and channels
  • Remote will automatically deselect devices that go offline, and keep online devices selected after closing and reopening the application

v2.4.3

API

  • Improved closed caption range limiting to reduce redundant or stacked captions (Updates to HDMI sticks are not required for this change)
  • Fix for communication issue that makes some devices incorrectly report online/offline status
  • Fix for memory leak that would cause the authentication service to periodically restart

Web

  • Screen group administrators can change device names
  • "Notes" field added to devices to improve the hardware deployment process
  • Active alerts are ordered chronologically
  • "Admins" navigation item is limited to super-users
  • Auto-complete boxes updated to avoid clipping long group names

v2.4.0

Web Interface

  • Redesigned Layout Tool, shifted component styles to the layout itself for more intuitive styling flow
  • Ability to toggle closed captions on video streams

Client Interface

  • Add support for closed captions on Blend video streams

Remote Interface

  • Ability to toggle closed captions on video streams

v2.3.0

API

  • Windows NTLM authentication available when signing in through Active Directory
  • Team sync functionality to add new feature permissions to existing groups and nodes
  • OVAs and Updater have been upgraded to use Node 10.15.3 for better package support

Web Interface

  • Refactor client connection code to use Braid Client
  • Added channel groups
  • Replace video previews with Bolt generated thumbnails
  • Added a new Spacer primitive asset to layouts
  • User can now navigate to layout editor from a specific channel

Client Interface

  • Refactor client connection code to use Braid Client
  • Replace video previews with Bolt generated thumbnails
  • Improvements to channel preview scaling

Remote Interface

  • Refactor client connection code to use Braid Client
  • Replace video preview icons with Bolt generated thumbnails
  • Improvements to channel preview scaling

v2.2.6

Web Interface

  • Scala Content Manager updates
    • Sync player names directly from content manager
    • Sync player groups from content manager
  • Ability to manually trigger a sync from Scala Content Manager
  • Band devices include MAC address identifiers
  • Ability to set background images for individual assets in layouts
  • Ability to set titles for scheduled events
  • Ability to mute and change volume of devices and device groups
  • Ability to add individual devices to a scheduled event
  • Resolved an issue where editing an alert would reset alert to non-active state
  • Filter autocomplete results to not show previously assigned channels

Client Interface

  • Upgrade to Blend2 and implement Blend2 Client
  • Additional logging for Blend player
  • Fixed issue on IE where icons and previews would occasionally not show on certain page sizes

Remote Interface

  • Fixed an issue on IE where remote interface would refresh on random intervals
  • Fixed an issue on IE where icons and previews would occasionally not show on certain page sizes
  • List of devices include device nicknames

v2.2.2

Web Interface

  • Option to create a channel when saving a layout
  • Scala updates
  • Carousel primitive asset
    • Takes all asset types
    • Set duration on individual assets in carousel
  • Corrected bug where user could delete a layout being used in a channel

Client Interface

  • Support for Carousel assets
  • Autoplay fix for non IE11 browsers

v2.2.1

Web Interface

  • Band player option for Qumu VCC programs, including VOD and live multicast-programs served from VNE edge nodes
  • IP address display in the screen group item
  • MAC addresses in name of screen group item (newly added devices only, does not retroactively change device names)
  • Automatically created Scala player screen group and enhanced Scala player integration (when Scala credentials are present)

Client Interface

  • Band player for native HLS playback as well as playback of any FFmpeg compatible stream when the Blend multicast receiver is present. The player includes:
    • In-band caption support (all platforms)
    • AirPlay support (on iOS and Macs)
    • Picture-in-picture support (on Chrome)

v2.1.1

Web Interface

  • Fix issue where HLS preview would not unmount previous stream when loading new stream
  • Added optional fallback URLs for video stream primitives
  • Added additional stream protocol support to video stream primitive (RTP, Multicast, .sdp)
  • Better type checking on immutable data
  • Added font family options for text primitives
  • Added video primitive assets to layouts (MP4s)
  • Added option to select all screen groups
  • Added video stream primitive assets to layouts (HLS)

Client Interface

  • Support for Blend extension
  • Added Blend player to support Blend streams (RTP, Multicast, .sdp)
  • Added fallback URL error handling to video stream component
  • Fixed incorrect display of mute dialog on reload
  • Fix issue where HLS preview would not unmount previous stream when loading new stream
  • Add 2% padding to text elements on edges of screen
  • Adjust menu icon positioning on mobile devices (icon blocks fullscreen button for HLS streams on mobile safari)
  • Display Band version in channel selector
  • Improved error handling and retry attempts on connection failure
  • Add ScreenShare feature through Remote interface (WebRTC)
  • Add Camera feature through Remote interface (WebRTC)

Remote Interface

  • Add ability to ScreenShare to Client interface (WebRTC)
  • Add ability to share Camera feed to Client interface (WebRTC)
  • Add video stream channel support
  • Disable zoom on mobile web
  • User interface redesign

API

  • Added TURN server support

v2.0.4

Web Interface

  • Added option to duplicate Alerts
  • Added option to duplicate Layouts
  • Alert dialogs show remaining time
  • Alert duration is now in minutes (previously hours)
  • Option to add all screen groups to an Alert
  • User and group search enhancements
  • User interface redesign

Client Interface

  • Automatic audio source selection if multiple audio sources exist
  • Refactor volume and mute handlers to support multiple audio sources

Remote Interface

  • Added volume control over multiple audio sources in one layout

API

  • Replaced Active directory passport strategy with passport-ldapauth

v2.0.2

API

  • Active Directory caching
  • Version utility
  • Logs utility and endpoints