RetailPlayer Firmware V6.5.0

Change Log

New Features

• Advanced Scheduling: 

  • advanced triggers with multiple types of repetitions: single, weekly, monthly

  • advanced triggers allow setting the number of times that a trigger will execute, and the execution interval

  • advanced triggers may be restricted to execute only within a start and end date

  • asset rotation bundles: group multiple assets and define round-robin order of playback, for each time an asset is played

  • advanced triggers may control the playback main volume

• Asset Management:

  • ability to disable individual assets. these assets will not play

  • asset custom gain: each asset may be played with individual custom gain

  • queue assets for sequential playback if triggered while an asset is playing

  • active asset and queue may be flushed/stopped from the portal

• Security & Other:

  • refuse installation of ancient firmware updates

  • refuse installation of incompatible firmware updates

  • HTTP/HTTPS streams with basic authentication

  • smart timeout: optimize usage of the available buffer to increase resilience to drops in network connectivity

  • the main volume of the device is now set with a soft ramp

  • fade in and out in opening hours (activation schedule)

• RTP Forwarding:

  • RTP forwarding (BETA): forward the playing audio to an RTP stream with 16bit PCM, stereo, 44.1kHz

Changes/Improvements

• Fallback Tracks:

  • playback of fallback tracks is not interrupted during download of tracks, unless a file is modified while playing

  • start playing fallback tracks as soon as at least one track is available

  • automatically reload fallback tracks as they are downloaded, without interrupting playback

• Operation & Maintenance: 

  • Device will also update automatically if instructed to during the initial 10 minutes of operation

  • Improved clarity of help messages and UI guidance

  • enable compression of internal logs

  • improved relevance and retention of logs

  • When the portal URL is changed from the web interface, clear the device settings (soft-reset)

  • remove avahi related information from web interface (service not required on RetailPlayer)

  • include asset related information in diagnostics 

• Removed Stand-Alone Mode operation

• Other: 

  • do not download assets from the portal if portal connection is down

  • added information about third party software and open-source licenses

  • timeout is more permissive while opening http streams

  • wait longer to retry opening a stream if the format is unknown/unsupported

  • URL scheme is now case-insensitive

  • Assets part of Cue Sets will play regardless of enable/disable state of asset.

  • stability and performance improvements

Fixes

• sometimes the device would try play fallback tracks after they were deleted

• improved buffering of RTP based streans

• in some rare circumstances the player could freeze and require a reboot to recover, during the playback of fallback tracks

• LEDs had un-consistent behavior in M400 model

• player crashed when opening broken mpeg streams whose initial audio packet had a different format from the rest of the stream

• in some rare circumstances the device could freeze, if the connection to a stream was lost while the buffer was completely full

• streams with zero-length packets could cause a freeze of the playback

• memory leak whenever a timeout occurred while opening a stream

• memory leak whenever the websocket connection failed to establish

• potential crash if a URL ending with ".m3u" contained an actual stream

• sometimes, newly registered devices would keep the local UI active after connecting to the portal, even if the portal setting was "disabled"

Known Limitations / Issues

• Ethernet interface must be kept in DHCP mode to allow Wireless LAN operation

• WLAN interface is not identified by Discovery Tool

Deployment