Added two new parameters for DVB-S Media Channels.
This was required for successfully tuning to DVB-S channels on Samsung Orsay TVs.
Hub is now the official name of the product. Logos, colors and styling are changed to support this.
Bang & Olufsen mode is now supported for the screen models WM960H and AM960H
Fixed several bugs related to video player on certain TV models. This was discovered when transitioning from main menu to a sub menu where both menupages played the same media channel.
Changed parameters Major and Minor to PTC and Program number.
Implemented a safeguard for all signage clients so they don't download media files when there's less than 10% storage available. This will prevent malfunctions or broken media files that could occur if disk was 100% full.
We now support multiple EMS integrations on the same site.
An integration for the TravelCurious event management system is now available.
Discovered and fixed a bug in the template parsing engine where certain special characters could cause issues with external API services.
An integration for the SevenRooms event management system is now available.
This release contains several technical improvements and optimizations that may not be noticable to end users.
Fixed bug where the LG STB-6500-UB set top box would report wrong power mode and cause issues when transitioning from STANDBY to NORMAL mode and vise versa.
Added support for the special character ' when creating new user accounts in the cloud portal, or when autoprovisioning accounts through partner APIs.
Fixed correct reporting of memory and CPU usage for the following Signage players: Bluefin Linux, Janus Windows, Uniguest HD1, HD4 and 4K2.
Material design icons are now also supported on old LG TVs that did not support it originally. These icons are used in several of our default themes that many sites use.
This release consists of some new features, but mostly technical improvements or optimizations that may not be noticable to end users.
We have added DRM support for QAM channels on LG TV screens
Version 4.0.0 of Cast is released
An integration for the RealTime Reservation event management system is now available.
The HD4 player is now officially released
The directions, document and image widgets now support interactions using triggers and actions.
LG WebOS signage displays now use the LG IDCAP API if they support it.
Various displays now support playing back multiple playlists in paralell containing videos within the same template.
Some SoC screens are still limited to one video only, including Philips/Android, Samsung SSSP2/Tizen and Bluefin.
Languages Slovak and Greek are now available to be set up on sites and create UIs for.
A new management command is available trough the portal to set NTP server on Philips displays.
Sites can now set up automated recurring checkout/checkins per weekday without any PMS integration.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese are now available as languages for interactive pages and templates.
Philips TV firmware-upgrade can now be triggered from the management-portal.
QR codes can now be generated containg map URLs corresponding to map routes on signage screens. This way the users can use their mobile devices to locate the destination.
Whenever a user uploads any image greater than standard 4K dimensions - 3840 x 2160, the user will be informed of the deviation in dimensions like below.
The image will be resized to fit 4K standards. Example: the image of dimension 13583 x 5417 will be resized to 3840 x 1531.
An issue was discovered where the stream allocator feature might allocate cast devices that were not properly reset on previous de-allocation. The system will now ensure a cast device is in the pairing screen mode when allocation is attempted.
The alpha slider widget can now be connected to the flights and directional widgets to enable flitering of content.
New alignment options are available for layouts in the room board widget.
Fixed an issue where the video size would be incorrect when rotating content to portrait mode on HD1, Windows and Bluefin players.
A new setting allows users to define the max length of text for data-tables per site.
Multiple capacity issues at peak times in the back-end services have been adressed. These issues would mainly occur at UTC 00:00-08:00.
The HD-1 player now supports UDP multicast and HLS playback. The only limitation being that on widgets can overlay the video.
ATSC-cable (QAM) works for US versions of the Tizen HBU8000.
Prevent LG TVs for using overscan on video.
The data-table widget for signage templates has been enhanced with the following features:
A new widget that allows users to select a letter to be used for ordering/filtering in another widget is now available. For now this works with the data-table widget.
Tables can now be used as a content-source in a container. The data can be templated using the mustach templating engine.
A new widget is available to display map locations and routs between locations.
Only available for testing for now.
A system to override broken airline logos from the flight-provider has been implemented.
The system now supports 4K video transcoding for signage video uploads. Upon uploading, the system automatically detects if the video is a candidate for 4K or HD transcoding. Users have the option to force HD transcoding if preferred.
Please note, not all displays can smoothly playback 4K videos. If you encounter playback issues, opt to disable 4K during the upload process. Further documentation will be provided soon.
This deployment introduces an initial version of the dynamic table document type and signage widget. This feature is currently available for early adopters and testers.
To facilitate easier troubleshooting, signage displays now show the current firmware and app versions on the main install screen.
Reports have been received regarding installation issues with Blufin Linux displays. While not all issues have been replicated successfully, multiple improvements have been implemented to enhance the installation process's robustness.
A new feature to scan for wireless networks is now available in the HD1 network setup window, enhancing connectivity options.
Previously, activating SoftAP on AU800 displays encountered problems. These have been addressed and resolved, although some issues related to the refresh rate of the key/password persist.
An upgraded and more user-friendly color picker is now utilized across all widget configuration windows in the template editor, enhancing the customization experience.
Audio Volume on YouTube Playback: The issue with audio volume during YouTube playback on HD1, Bluefin, and other Electron-based players has been fixed. Users should now experience consistent audio levels.
EPG Feature Update: The current/next Electronic Program Guide (EPG) feature previously failed to provide comprehensive information. This issue has been thoroughly addressed and resolved.
Special Characters in Room Names: We've resolved a problem where using special characters in room names interfered with API requests. Room names with special characters are now fully supported without impacting functionality.
GoogleTV cast devices(gen4) will now report WiFi signal strength to the management portal. Noise level is not reported.
Newer Philips 5x12 displays could hang in a cloning process when going poweron -> standby -> poweron due to issues with the way the TV channels were programmed to the TV.
In the latest release of the major browsers running the blink rendering engine, there was an issue in the menu/template editor causing the scrollbar-areas to be displayed.
In some very spesific cases, when using the "override all other content" display condition on a meeting-room screen, the screen could turn black.
Main menus containing a YouTube video would not start playing the video automatically when re-displayed.
SVG and webp images can now be uploaded and used in both signage templates and hopsitality interactive pages.
In many cases MOV-videos were not recognized by the file-picker when chosing files to upload under the media scetion in the portal. This has been resolved.
An account that has been disabled can now be enabled again by using the forgot-password function.
An issue that could cause linear TV-playback to hang when videos were used in the main menu has been resolved.
Various fixes for all electron based players and screens improving stability and fixing issues such as missing WiFi and Audio output.
A daily spike in system resource use was happening at about 1100-1200 CET causing various services to become unresponsive. This has been resolved.
Fixed issue when pressing Back button while Chromecast was active the screen would turn black and require a reboot.
Also fixed long loading time when opening built-in Chromecast app from approx 8 seconds to 2.
Added support for new Samsung QMC signage screen. This runs on the new Tizen Enterprise Platform meaning that
it has to be installed using a different URL than older Tizen screens.
Added support for Turkish language
Sub-pages are now cleaned properly from DOM when navigating back in the TV app. This should result in some better performance for several models.
When sending a "Reload media" request to a Signage screen, it will now show a brief notification on the screen indicating it is reloading.
Reboot requests sent to HD1 players will be discarded if a software update is currently in progress. This avoids having the software data becoming corrupt by unlucky timing.
Fixed "Account insufficient privileges" error while synchronizing files.
Resolved issue with LG playback on channel 1 when using video from resource-server.
Fixed an issue for the ProDVX signage player where some parts of the image was cut and videos were scaled down when rotation was set to 270/90 degrees.
Can now enable or disable interactivity on webpage (iframe) widgets, this solves the issue for i.e. Digital Concierge which requires interactivity.
It's possible to use touch screens to interact with webpage widgets.
It is now possible to change the scrolling behavior:
Resellers can now set up mail alerts to be sent every time license volumes change(number of screens), or new sites are created.
TV configurations can now be set up without any main menu if using the Hospitality -> Config -> Show TV channels on power-on configuration. Pressing the menu-key while this configuration is running will then have no effect.
Also a bugfix was done for TVs booting up while in power-on mode using this setting. Some models would display the loading icon until user interaction was performed.
The RSS ticker widget can now be set up to scroll left to right.
A language-selection widget is now available for interactive signage. This widget will display the currently selected language and pop up a list when a user interacts.
The default language can be set under Signage -> Configuration in the portal.
Any content that is to be translated must be translated when building template content. The generic container is the main widget to use if translations are required.
A new management command has been added to the portal so that you can configure WiFi on the players remotely. In addition to that, the the WiFi connector has been improved to support:
When setting up a signage-template that supports interactivity, the option to set a timeout that delays any transitions to the next content after any interaction has now changed for on spesific case. If there is only one template in the current timeslot, the template is re-displayed and any language-selection is reverted after the interactivit timeout is fired.
The Samsung Tizen 6.5 HBU8000 TV is now supported in the system, but final firmware from Samsung has yet to be released.
The HD-1 player and the bluefin display now support receiving TZ-information from the portal so they can operate in other TZ's than the one the site is configured for.
Clicking the top-bar "Site information" menu in the portal will now show the distributor information for users that has reseller access.
A new API command is available to remotely start apps on TVs. Also accessible in context-menu under TV-management. Read more in the Client Execute Push Messages section here.
Inter-site video-file copy now works.
TVs will now invalidate cached documents after 10 minutes.
Two bugs were resolved regarding video playback in signage templates.
The signage widgets for flight data and event directions now support touch interactions for scrolling. When scrolling by touch, the regular autoscroll or pagination will be suspended temporarly.
The tumbnail generator used to build the thumbnails for templates and menu-pages now performs better in high load scenarios.
Samsung Tizen displays now use the screens native rotation mode when setting the 270 rotation(90 rotation according to the samsung settings). This rotation mode will ensure that embedded items such as the YouTube player also rotate video playback.
As always the rotation setting is only to be done in the managment portal, not on screen during installation.
Some new formatting options are available for the directional widget.
The flights widget will now correctly display arrivals/departures for delayed flights.
When using the HD1 signage player in portrait mode a scrollbar would display at the bottom of the screen. This has been fixed.
The overview list under the home section of the portal would display all expired licenses and include these in the accumulated license counts. This has now been fixed.
The message popup under the hospitality feature now allows selecting and deselecting all rooms.
The system will now retain the last 20 saved versions of pages/templates. There is no user-interface to control this, if there is a need to restore a previous version please contact support.
Currently supported for the following Signage players:
The brand new local HTTP-video server for the local site-agent is now available!
The site agent resource service will synchronize any videos uploaded on a site to local storage and serve locally to TVs.
This allows for adding videos such as background streams for UIs, brand videos etc to the user experience with no need for external video-hosting.
Wake-up alarms should now fire within the minute it was set for. Earlier it might fire more than one minute late.
A spesific ID, earlier only available to IPK-apps, can now be listed in the tv-client overview for LG IDCAP-enabled devices.
All translations in the portal for french, spanish and german have been updated.
The channel-icon is now available in update events from the EPG matix element.
Lots of new features relating to supporting video caching on the local agent has been pushed. This feature will be generally avaiable after an initial test period.
The new media-variables: media.playingIndexTv, media.playingIdTv and media.playingIconTv - and their radio counterparts - are available. Read more here.
Mainly system fixes and preparations for new features that will be made available next release.
Themes can now be shared with sites based on product. This allows for sharing a theme built for interactive TV only with sites that have a license for a TV-product and vice versa for signage.
An integration for the Event Temple event management system is now available.
A new setting allows for the WebPage element to forward keypresses to the embedded page. Read more under the Elements -> WebPage section here.
A new widget allows for displaying content from an external input. This is only supported for Samsung Tizen and LG WebOS SoC displays.
Trigger "SubItem Highlight" with action "Change media item" did not work. Resolved.
An issue causing video playback not always to start when powering on a device has been resolved.
Signage playlists can now contain other playlists.
Be aware that playlists still can not contain templates.
Widgets now have per-widget default sizes when added to templates.
Fixed some issues that could disable page navigation after showing popup elements and when usinge certain open and close eventhandler combinations.
Fixed issue where EPG-loading would in some cases cause initialization to stop if TV was in power on state during bootup.
A dedicated flights widget is now available in the signage template editor. This makes it easier to display airport departures/arrivals without the need of setting up an API-connector.
This feature requires a flights license.
LG WebOS screens newer than 2.0 now supports gapless video-to-video transitions.
The EPG matrix new support highlight events for sub-items with full templating support of the highlighted item. See more here.
Added regular retries of loading EPG-database if it fails loading initially.
One can now make local copies of resources that are centrally provided(fonts, wayfinding icons etc)
An issue causing pages to become empty when creating and moving pages/templates in the same session was resolved.
A bug that caused the event host logo not to display, under certain circumstances, was resolved.
A native Windows-application can now be installed to monitor missing wakeups. Read more here.
A new configuration option allows for always pushing changes in schedules to screens instantly without being prompted.
One can no longer add more devices for a site than licensed. Registration of new devices will fail after the license limit has been reached.
A bug caused location names to appear differently based on there being ongoing events for a room board. This has been resolved.
Fixed a couple of bugs causing thmbnail generation to fail.
The content of these widgets now fully supports text wrap and line breaks without breaking the layout.
Video playback now works on WebOS6+ devices.
This wiki now has improved search abilities.
Any modern browser supporting service-workers/CacheStorage and indexedDB can now fully cache all static content just like the fully integrated players/SoC displays.
New weather icons are now used with resolution up to 1024 by 1024px providing crisp rendering of weather forcasts.
Inactive users are now automatically disabled after three months without any logins.
Support for running signage on Bluefin displays running Linux.
DVB-T channels in Australiz using 7MHz bandwidth are now working on Tizen TVs.
Wakeups that have expired are no longer displayed on the TV. Earlier all wakeups were listed until check out.
In certain cases timeed refresh event on the main menu were not started after visiting a sub-page. This has been resolved.
Data stores are now fully translatable. All item-types can have different content based on language falling back to default if not set.
The new IDCAP APIs from LG are now fully in use. The TVs can be forced back to HCAP trough a management message in the "TV Screens" section if there should be any issues that one suspect are related to this change.
More information on Cast devices and version in home-screen.
Fixed an issue where philips-screens would some times display a black screen after starting audio playback.
Can now see what cast device is assigned to what allocated stream in the management portal.
Fixed an issue were two users could be assigned the same stream if ordering at the exact same time.
Added extra enforcement of reset of cast-device when a stream is both de-allocated and allocated.
Web radio search fixed.
Firmware-version now displays on LG IDCAP displays.
Signage displays now persists and use the last audio-level set via the management portal.
Fix for cases where stylesheet loading failed on bootup on LG TVs.
Fixed issue where HLS streams would not always start playing on LG TVs.
Fix for issue where images were not always loaded correctly after content was updated on the singage HD1 player.
Fixed issue where clients could not be moved from a site to a theme.
Support for translating all items in data-stores has been prepared. In this deployment the TV-app support will be rolled out and then the editor updates will be rolled out in the next deploy. This is because old TV-clients will not be compatible with the new format.
This integration is now deployed for initial testing. Not yet general available.
Read more about the HD1 player here.
Users can now see the version of connected cast-servers and agents in the main overview list.
A package of all needed pages/templates to set up room booking in signage has been prepared.
A new layout is available for the directinal widget.
A workaround has been implemented for setting HDMI-source on old LG LX-series screens.
Initial release of features required to build a flow for booking and canceling events via a touch based display. For now this only works with the buildt-in event modul, no integrations.
Scan a QR-code on the TV to operate the TV from your mobile device!
A new view is available to get information about mDNS and SSDP traffic on the proxy.
Users can now log in using their google account.
The signage directional widget can now display multiple meetings per location based on a configuration option.
Various signage-related bugfixes.
Various EMS systems can now be connected to the signage event system. Contact support for more information.
The cast proxies can now be registered and activated from the system removing all dependencies on other activation systems.
The schedule-plans in signage can now be activated using a public API.
The list component under the interactive editor now supports setting a padding value allowing for effects such as zoom-out to be used on the list elements.
Now available under the signage-screens section.
"Plans" is a new feature found under the signage schedule section. This allows users to build any number of complete, separate schedules and screen-assignments and toggle between these.
Resellers with self-service permissions can now activate sites. This will initiate the license costs and remove the "License inactive" watermark showing on the screens.
The option to register TV-screens based on scanning a QR-code has been removed.
To prevent users from leaving TVs powered on while not in the room, a new feature has been added that will power off the TV is no keys are pressed for a configurable number of hours. The user will be promped and can press any key for a minute prior to the TV being powered off.
This is set up per TV configuration and can therefore be set to different values/disabled for different times of days and/or groups of screens.
Host logos(eg company logos) can now be auto-mapped for events that are either created in the portal or imported via an integration.
Initial support for older Samsung SoC devices.
Various fixes relating to TV-channel tuning has been resolved. Issues include playback stop based one events, playback on TV power on and preventing retuning if already on same channels.
Initial support for WebOS signage displays is now ready.
Multi-day events are now listed with start/stop dates if the date is not today. If the date is today then the clock is displayed like before.
You can now re-arrange the order schedules are listed in the portal by drag and drop to crete a customized view.
A lot of new CDN- and internal application-caching strategies have been applied making the system more robust and client-registration faster.
In certain cases the weather forecast would not include todays weather. Fixed.
This deployment includes the full-featured digital signage functionality. Supported screens are:
The feature set includes:
The system will now provide a set of shared media items across all sites. In this release this will include a pre-defined set of fonts available on all sites. For future releases the sharing function will be available on a reseller level.
The multi-day EPG data UI now supports the 12-hour clock format.
A over the last year, lot of work has gone into implementing a fully-fleged signage system that includes event/meeting-room functionallity. This release contains some of the final parts of this and will now open up for some limited demoing of the signage product.
More news to come.
Messages sent to TVs marked for instant display would render in an inconsistent way if they
contained linebreaks. This has been fixed.
Font files of type WOFF or WOFF2 would not always upload if working on a Windows computer.
This has been resolved.
Users can now select the time format to use in the portal for displaying timestamps.
Two issues has been found that would prevent the Chromecasts from be reset on guest check-out.
These have now both been resolved.
A bug has prevented the welcome page from displaying if the check-in language was set to a non-default language.
This has now been resolved.
A bug has prevented the welcome page from diplaying in general on the Philips TVs on check-in.
This has now been resolved.
A fix was implemented for starting certain sideloaded smart-apps on WebOS.
Various fixes for item editing in menu-page editor. Especially related to repositioning/resizing.
A bug would prevent showing agent details. Resolved.
The room name is now set in LG TVs to better identify the screen when using services such as Miracast or Bluetooth.
Sites that are located in the United States will now have TVs showing the US flag for english languages.
Many small fixes including a new optimization functionallity in resource loading from the portal.
The TV scaling on certain older LG NetCast devices would cause the TV image not to go full-screen.
Fix for issue where subtitles would auto-activate even after turning them off.
The site dashboard now lists the sites license count for TVs, signage-displays and chromecasts.
A few important fixes for displaying messages on TVs were implemented. Especially related to powering on TVs by a new messages.
New license count columns in license report export.
In the TV-page editor, items can now be locked at their position preventing accidentaly moving them when editing.
New versions of the push service keeping all devices connected to the system real-time, has been deployed. These now support controlled shut-down and they use the same message-bus system as the rest of the system.
The response timeout value for the FIAS PMS integration can now be configured per site.
The system now supports multiple internal domains that seperates all resource-aspects of the system. These domains also sepeartes users so all user-accounts only belong to one domain. To be used for white-labling. This is a major system design change.
If using a PMS-integration, the last 50 PMS messages can now be viewed by administrators per site.
The default audio language chosen for TV-channels will now be based on the selected TV system language. Explicitly selecting another audio language will make the selected language the default one.
A new option is available to make TVs start up in the TV-channel view instaed of the main menu.
Fixed date sorting in tables in management portal.
A bug in the ATSC channel parameter parsing was fixed.
Fixed issue where embedded YouTube videos would be muted for LG and Tizen screens.
A bug that caused TVs not to power on when a new message was recived was resolved.
The TV EPG processing has been optimized resulting an a much more responsive experience when using curr/next or full EPG.
Fixed issue where the page statistics were not showing correctly when browsing themes.
Various optimization for portal initial home-page load speed.
Now backung up a fallback-version of datastores locally on TV to prevent empty menus if the data-store loading fails.
Fix issue causing the URL parameter not to be applied when starting a browser on WebOS screens.
The ChromeCast overview can now be exported to Excel.
Various issues related to user login and authorization fixed.
A bug caused issues for flights-feeds when there were no flights to report. Fixed.
A time period can now be set for when TVs are to turn on to display new messages
The site agent will now attempt auto-update once a day.
The stream allocator management now features a log of any failed allocation attempts.
Fixed issue with TV-config copy.
Fixed issue with channel data imports.
Fixed issue where message delivery status was not updated in portal.
YouTube playlist looping fixed.
Functions to send various system-messages to clients has been exposed in trough the API. Read more in the API-access section
A new setting is available under TigerTMS settings to decide if the dashboard status is based on on last incoming message or two way message-exchanges.
An issue with HLS playback on the B&O Countour screen was fixed.
The flights API source would sometimes not respect the requested number of results.
An issue that might cause modal windows on the TV to lose focus was resolved.
An issue causing wrong results for destinations in Timezones that differed much from GTM was resolved.
An initial PDF-to-image conversion service has been added. It allows one to upload a PDF that is converted to image resources for use by TV/signage.
The free-text search in the home-screen list will now match data in all active columns.
The document editor has been upgraded to the latest version.
The TV service-menu will now include the name of the site on which that TV is registered.
A management feature that allows forcing displays to display the system set name for a brief period now available.
A bug causing content in lists on screen not to be updated when changing language has been fixed.
A bug was fixed that caused to many languages to be available in TV language selection UIs in certain cases.
Fixed some issues regarding the cast system configuration screen.
The connectivity issues reported on the cast integration has now been verified resolved.
Fixed an issue that caused issues distributing the current/next EPG data.
Various license limit(TV, signage, cast) is now available for display in the overview list and site details.
License info is now available for display in the overview list.
The channel-filter function in the TV-app has been optimized and should work much faster.
Playback toggle key on newer Samsung remotes added.
An issue that cause problems searching for webradio-channels was resolved.
If the guest check-in contains a language, the TV will now automatically apply this language.
ATSC channels can now be configured.
Bluetooth Audio and Miracast is now supported on the new Samsung Q60/AU800 models.
An issue that caused video scaling to fail on older WebOS models was resolved.
Resolved an issue that could cause EPG data not to be updated.
Resolved another EPG issue that could cause the current/next EPG dta not to display properly.
Excel would strip any leading zeros from locations with numeric names.
Users are presented with an overview of the account access before saving.
External systems listed in the home view can now be accessed by users via ownes(typically chains).
Netflix can now be started on LG TVs that support the Netflix application. This requires a PMS integration to be active.
Users can now search themes in the context-menu by name/owners/resellers.
Fixed issue when pressing source-key on RC while on a remote source.
In certain cases a scaled and placed TV-window in a menu-page would set the wrong top/left offset.
Users can now delete cast devices listed in the unregistered view.
Fixed an issue causing leading 0s to be stripped from the room number in the export.
Fixed(hotfix) an issue causing the QR code to not render on TVs.
Default roles are now shown in the site role overview.
Support for the B&O Countour screen was added to the TV-application.
The stream allocator service can now be set up to connect to ChromeCast devices managed by a connected ChromeCast proxy.
A new editor for the TV-configuration schedules was implemented.
Fixed issue where the listing of cast-devices under home->statistics was miscalculated.
Fixed issue in TV-listing for rooms that were located in multiple locations.
When creating a new site, an "industry" can be set. Will default to hospitality.
The new stream allocator service is being rolled out and is ready for testing by selected partners.
Added support for: font color selection, line-height setting and default font(Veranda).
A new role-system has been implemented allowing users to create roles on a per site level. Roles are mostly based on the way features are presented in the UI. Read more in the sites section.
Site details are now available from the home-view for non-legacy sites. This includes a TV-client preview option.
A new editor is now available for editing documents.
XSS related fixes for interactive page editor.
Various database-related optimizations relating to screen connectivity.
Link-alive detection was added for Tiger PMS integrations.
A bug in the subtitle detectiona nd activation was fixed.
A bug was fixed in the managment portal that caused issues whn creating a wakeup for the current date.
A bug in the audio language detection was fixed for Samsung Orsay.
This update contains support for managing a chromecast proxy server on premise. Still not generally available comercially.
Lots of smaller fixes in the management-portal, TV-application and back-end.
This feature is not yet been enabled.
This update contains lots of new features that are not yet made available. Stay tuned!
The loading time of the list of sites for your home-screen has been optimized.
A few bugs were found in the EPG matrix render component causing some render atrifacts and degraded system performance.
Various structural optimizations have been done to improve cloud system performance.
The TV-app will now cache menu-pages improving load times and reducing system load. Be aware of this if editing and testing menus.
The TV-management list can now be exported to XLS again.
A few technical bugs were tracked down and resolved. Should improve stability.
API-connectors can now handle XML data in addittion to JSON.
The daily reboot for non LG screens can now be disabled.
There was a bug regarding scrolling content on Orsay that has been resolved.
The SoftAP was reset at regular reboot on Orsay
Reworked the internals for HLS tuning on WebOS based on feedback from the field.
Channel tables can now be exported to excel.
New option to disable highlight in list elements making the contetn scroll like a regular container.
The soft AP in Orsay devices is no longer reset on every reboot. Now it only resets at checkout.
In preparation for supporting Digital Signage, the menu editor now supports adding in any custom resolution. For TV the standard 1920x1080 should still be used.
A new trigger, "hidden", is now available for pages.
XLS exports now can include the TV-vendor, types and firmware columns.
In preparation for signage-support in the system, menu pages can now freely be set to any resolution. However, the TV application ALWAYS runs in 1920x1080(default size in editor), so only pages of this size will display correctly on TVs.
A simple matrix layout overview of screens is now available in the portal. This is quite simple for now, but will be expanded later.
Fixed issue preventing configuration schedules from being applied at the right times
Fix UI state isse after receiving and displaying a new message
Custom CSS classes can now also be set on Menu Pages. Earlier this option was only available on menu elements.
The TV service PIN code can now be configured per site.
A dedicated menu for TVs booting up to offline mode can now be created and configured. TVs will download and store this menu and use it after startup if there is no connectivity. The regular menu will be loaded once connectivity is restored.
Filter on whitelabel roperty and link to whitelabeled external portals from the details page.
When there are a hughe set of updates on the TVs on a site, the updates are now batched from the portal to optimiaze efficiency on the client side.
This release introduces a new concept in the menu page design process: global style sheets. These are CSS documents that can be shared between menu-pages making changing styles across all pages a lot easier. Global stylesheets will be parts of theme imports and a tutorial will be up soon.
This update also introduces support for adding comments in the page and element CSS, and duplicated properties(for fallback).
From the guest management screen, portal users can now assign screen configuration schedules to a guest. The set configuration will be applied to all screens for the duration of the guest stay. It will then revert back on check-out.
One can now sort the groups in channel tables by drag and drop.
A few bugs causing editing of timeslots not to work properly, have been fixed in the config scheduling UI.
If you have reseller access-level certain external systems registered on your reseller can now be monitored from the home-screen.
A network-requirements page has been added to the wiki.
Folders for menu-pages and data-sources can now be renamed.
Various optimizations have been applied to make the startup/reconfiguration sequence faster on Samsung Orsay devices.
Various issues for issues regarding HTTP playback in menu-pages has been resolved for Samsung Orsay and LG WebOS.
A new function to format timestamps is now available. Usefull when building UIs for messages and other dynamic data.
The initial version of the guest messageing feature is now deployed. Support for guest-messages from PMS is included.
A basic theme, HERMOD, will soon be available showcasing the functionallity.
User data is now cleared on Tizen devices on guest checkout.
When creating a new menu-page there is now an option to copy an existing page.
Configuration options to set LYNK DRM server on Orsay devices is now available.
One can now change the data-source backing an item list via triggered events.
Multiple new template-variables are now available replacing some of the functions used earlier. Read more under Global variables here
Resolved an issue that caused Tizen and Orsay screens not to load their full configuration in certain cases.
The new functions getEpgDescCurr, getEpgDescCurr and getEpgCurrProgress are available to fetch the programme descriptions for curr/next and the progress of the current programme from EPG
Two new functions are available to build pages showing the current playing media of the tv or radio type: getPlayingChannelName(type) and getPlayingChannelId(type).
The radio-channel configuration is now available in themes to be able to do complete testing of radio-channel UI pages.
The services needed for building the Express Checkout feature is now available. A theme showcasing the feature will soon be made available.
A bug that could cause TVs to receive no EPG was fixed in the EPG service.
One can now move folders in the menu-page structure and in datastores.
One can now define a menu-page to display if a HTTP request is successfull and the same for a failed request. This improves the ability to build rich services based on third party APIs as well as internal services.
The express checkout feature is now supported on the Tiger PMS integration.
In very rare cases the FIAS PMS service might need to synchronize state. The FIAS integration using the on-premise proxy, now suppoorts this.
A TV-service to retrieve the guest bill is now available. This can be used to build pages for guests to see their current bill.
Neative apps will now be terminated when exitting them on Tizen screens. This is based on feedback that performance in UI elements suffer when a netive app is runing in the background.
Parameters can now be passed by key and value to native apps. The value can be templated.
A new screen management function has been added to install apps on newer WebOS models.
One can now change the TV location binding from the service menu. This only works if the room address(number) is an exact match with the number given.
You can now use dynamic values in content that is rendered using the QR content-type in menu elements.
Live informaiton about the status of the various services is now available at:
https://status.thecloudportal.com?system=mirage
Apps that are sideloaded can now be started on webOS using the same functionallity as for the preloaded apps.
The preview function in the theme context was watermarked due to a bug. This has now been resolved.
In preparation for offering on-premis based services a hardware appliance can now be installed running a custom OS image managed by the cloud system via an outgoing connection. For now this does not introduce any new features by itself, but the installation and management of the agent device is now available. As soon as features that are built on this functionallity are released they will be announced here.
The Philips 5014 will now automatically update the application every night.
APIs are now available to display the active subtitle language in menupages.
The selected system language on the TV is now also used as the default fallback language for subtitles.
The MenuList element can now align its content if it's not overflowing.
Added parameters required for tuning DVB-S/S2 on WebOS. This includes symbol-rate and the S2 setting.
A bug prevented tuning of DVB-C channels to work properly.
Demo-sites will now be tagged in the system and can easily be filtered out in the home section.
A new and improved dashboard is now availablein the Home section of the portal.
LYNK CAS type 1 and 2 plus Pro:Centric for US models are now supported for Samsung Tizen. Separat DRM settings can be set per screen config.
Fix for starting native apps.
Fix for HOME key somethimes opening native dashboard.
Fix for personal data not being deleted on checkout.
Fix for starting Netflix.
Items in menu pages can now be renamed in teh menu page editor.
There are now 200 pre-defined colors available for text-coloring in the document editor.
UDP/RTP channels can now be tagged as audio-only to use IPTV radio-channels with Samsung Orsay. This has no effect on other brands/platforms where radio playback has always worked.
When pressing BACK-key in TV-mode(or any root page with autohidden elements), while auto-hide elements are showing will now just hide the elements, not go to main menu.
Some stability issues with the multiday EPG services has been resolved.
A dashboard indicator displaying the PMS connectivity status is now shown for all sites that has a PMS-integration enabled.
Siters that are under installation where the license is not yeat active will now have all their screens watermarked
The soft Access Point feature in Samsung screens can now be controlled via screen configurations. The AP SSID and key can be displayed in the TV pages via dynamic functions.
A new menu element type is now available. This element can play back youtube videos and be controlled via events from other elements.
For now this feature is not available on Samsung Orsay
All folders under content can now be renamed and moved. This is useful when dealing with theme imports.
A new TV-configuration option for setting a "power on" menu-page is now available. This page will display every time the TV goes from standby to poweron state. Can be used to display some initial information or promotion.
A tutorial demonstrating how to create, configure and publish a theme is now available.
The EPG feature is now based off two different licenses: "EPG curr/next" and "EPG multiday". If none of these are set up for the site then no EPG data will be available.
List elements can now use a dynamic function to initialize the initial highlight in the list. This can be used in eg welcome-pages to highlight the check-in language.
You can now choose default content to display on a TV/Screen in case a templating error occurs
You should only have to log in once on your mobile device when registering TVs by QR code.
The Philips Mediasuite 5014/6014 Android TVs are now ready to be piloted with the system.
An integration to perform teardown of casting sessions at checkout is now available for the OtrumCast system.
New translations have been published for non-english languages in the portal.
A tutorial explaining API-Connectors and API-Templates has been published.
Templates can now be configured with a cache value to prevent re-fetching from API source every time a screen requests the data.
We now support the Tiger TMS PMS middleware. This provides access to over 70 PMS systems!
The Tiger TMS feature is a licensed option.
A new page element type is now available. This element displays images in a timed slideshow. Images can be a mix of internal (from the system), external (from any URL) or set in page parameters.
You can now see the publish date of the available themes.
Themes are also presented ordered by publish date, so you will always see the most recent publications first.
A new menu action is available to close a page after a given time of inactivity.
We have done some adjustments to the template editor. Mainly visual to improve the experience.
The generated Markup has been moved below the Preview area and is hidden by default.
You can now resize the template editing area.
A tutorial explaining the advanced topics of MenuLists and local DataSources has been published.
More bug-fixes to accommodate the publication of the advanced theme Ymir.
You can now add HTTP headers in generic HTTP requests set up in menu-pages. This allows for setting eg. credentials. The values can be templated.
You can now delete folders with content under the various relevant sections in the portal. You will be warned before completing this operation, and you will also be warned if any content appears to be used in menu-pages.
The daily reboot did not trigger in all cases. Fixed.
Theme editing mode now shares almost all the features found on a proper site. This is to be able to check any function depending on rooms, guests, welcomes, TV-channels etc.
Real TVs can also be registered, but these will be watermaked.
Two new videos have been published: Working with documents and infopages and importing themes.
You can now set spesific font-sizes in documents. Earlier you were limited to small, medium and large.
Fixed an issue causing font uploads to fail in certain cases.
If you have access to multiple sites you can now move screens between these with no need to re-register.
All screens in the portal will now warn you if you try to leave a page with unsaved data.
You can now replace images in the portal. This is super-convenient when importing themes as you can replace an image with no need to replace all the references in the menu-pages.
The page parameter editor now provides a resource picker.
The guest name(s) are now available in the TV for templating in menu pages.
The theme mode now provides almost all features available on sites to allow testing features such as wakeup and checkin etc. TVs can be registered on themes, but they will be watermarked.
You can now work with tables in the document editor.
Some fixes regarding updates in the mediachannel and channeltable pages were done.
You can now instruct a TV to tune to a spesific channel from the TV-management page. The TV can only tune to channels that are available in its current TV-channel layout.
You can also instruct TVs to display spesific pages. This allows for eg forcing an external input.
You can now set a parameter to be passed to the TV when starting a built-in app. For now this is only used for web-browsing where you provide the URL. The data can be templated.
Some bugs were fixed in the full EPG component, and some optimizations were made.
The public API documentation is now available at https://apidocs.thecloudportal.com
Any Reload buttons in the portal has now been removed. All updates are live and pushed.
Also added prompts when leaving pages with unsaved changes.
Traditional radio mode is now available by creating a channel table containing the radio channels, creating a menu page tagged as Radio Channels and adding these two in the TV configuration.
Abillity to tune to a channel from the TV admin page.
Ability to push a page from the TV admin page(eg to push a HDMI-1 input page).
You can now replace uploaded images. This is very useful when importing a theme.
You can also easily download and rename your images now.
You can now add guest names in menu pages. These are dynamically updated.
A lot of fixes, both technical stuff and UI related.
The theme feature is now available in it's initial version. Themes will be published as soon as they are ready!
A TV-service providing a web-radio directory is now available. Included is also support for setting query-params when using ItemLists. Read more here.
Introducing this documentation portal. It is not complete, but we are off to a good start here. Main forcus for this first release has been on the menu editor.
A lot of effort has been put into the upcoming themes support. Unfortunatly the feature was not ready for this upgrade, even if most of the "under the hood" parts are included.
The portal is now available in the norwegian language.
We have done some long needed maintenance on the mobile version ofthe portal. Not all views will be available in the mobile version, but those that are should now be using mobile-adapted GUI components.