TD1012, BrightSign HD110 / HD210 / HD210w / HD410 /
HD810 / HD1010 / HD1010w ("Compact") Software 3.9.11
September 6, 2012
This release includes new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Improved HTTP timer server support
roStreamByteEvent now provides the character code in the range 0 to 255
rather than -128 to 127
Previous Firmware 3.9.9
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Improved LiveText performance
Fixed: Audio files now play properly using usb audio output
Fixed: HDMI output works properly when power is lost and returned quickly
Previous Firmware 3.9.5
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Geo-Fencing – Supports changing content based on location specific triggers using
a USB GPS receiver
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New global BrightScript function Pi() to return the value of p.
BrightScript math functions now take/return doubles as appropriate
o str, val, abs, atn, cdbl, cint, cos, exp, fix, int, log, sgn, sin, sqr and tan
Store files in the pool using a multi-level tree structure to reduce the
number of files in any one directory.
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Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Report 404 error when POSTing to a roHttpServer URL with no handler
Add support for retrieving POSTed form data to roHttpServer
Improved support for hot plugging/removing USB storage devices with media.
Miscellaneous improvements and fixes
Previous Firmware 3.8.42
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Fixed: MOV and MP4 files placed directly on the flash card now play properly
Fixed: CSV files now play properly
Miscellaneous Improvements to roCanvasWidget and roSqlite
Previous Firmware 3.8.39
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Support for roSqliteDatabase and related Brightscript components.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Fixed: Live Text color displays properly on BrightSign
Improved HTTP error reporting for certificate errors
Previous Firmware 3.8.34
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Fixed: Factory reset operation no longer fails if the device lacks an RTC
Fixed: roCanvasWidget handles empty text fields correctly
Fixed: roCanvasWidget now displays text color properly
Improved memory handling for roCanvasWidget
Previous Firmware 3.8.24
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Fixed: Audio player now works correctly with Expander attached
Fixed: Improved text alignment with roCanvasWidget
Miscellaneous performance enhancements
Previous Firmware 3.8.19
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Added support for BrightScript 3.0
Added Audio Fade In/Out, CrossFade, and Overlay using roAudioPlayerMx
Added support for Layering images using roCanvasWidget
Supports Setting Clock using HTTP rather than NTP
Added roStorageHotplug-provides events when storage devices appear and
disappear(external USB only)
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Fixed: Interlaced content at a different frame rate no longer judders
Improved Font and Text support
Improved handling of unsupported image and audio formats
Improved network diagnostics
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Previous Firmware 3.7.54
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Fixed: HDMI color space now always uses RGB instead of YUV.
Previous Firmware 3.7.52
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Fixed: NTSC & PAL videos play properly at 1024x768 resolution
Fixed: BrightSign restarts properly when a script crashes
Previous Firmware 3.7.50
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Support for Luvox HID Touchscreens
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Fixed: H.264 videos play properly without ending prematurely
Fixed: BrightSign reads H.264 aspect ratios correctly and scales accordingly
Fixed: BrightSign applies Australian Daylight saving rules
Fixed: BrightSign boots correctly when boot splash is disabled
Fixed: Text zones now clear and remove strings properly
Improved support for various touchscreens
Known Issues
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Live Video audio loss when playing live video before or after a video file
Note: For optimum video quality, your videos should fit the zone or screen
resolution (if full-screen) they will be displayed in.
Previous Firmware 3.7.44
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Support for BrightSign TD1012 unit
Support for Powerpoint 2010 WMV playback
Diagnostic Web Server
o Enable/Disable using a script or BrightAuthor
o Support for File Browsing, Uploading, Downloading, Deletion, etc.
o Network diagnostics as well as DNS lookup, Ping, Network settings
o Retrieve system, diagnostic, or playback logs
o Enable/disable script debug
Bandwidth Shaping – control dynamically at runtime via script
Support for new roSystemLog object
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Fixed: Audio & Video now plays properly without losing sync
Fixed: Typing "help httpgetperf" in the BrightSign shell now works correctly.
Improved playback for 108050p output
Improved WiFi behavior when wireless is enabled/disabled
Improved playback on BrightSigns that support HDMI CEC
Miscellaneous improvements to BrightScript, System reliability, Recovery
Miscellaneous improvements related to TD1012
Known Issues
This will be fixed in a future firmware release.
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Live Video audio loss when playing live video before or after a video file
Note: For optimum video quality, your videos should fit the zone or screen
resolution (if full-screen) they will be displayed in.
Previous Firmware 3.5.77
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Fixed: System responds appropriately to serial port activity during startup
Fixed: The "burned-in" autorun.brs script now runs correctly
Fixed: 1920x1080x60p is now properly aligned
Fixed: Setting serial port to receive bytes now works reliably
Fixed: MOV files now playback at correct speed.
Fixed: CEC functions now perform more reliably
Known Issues
This will be fixed in a future firmware release.
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Live Video audio loss when playing live video before or after a video file
Previous Firmware 3.5.68
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Support for LG T1910B Touchscreen
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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HDMI driver update reduces “no signal” messages at startup
Improved reliability when paying transport streams after an mp3
Fixed: Mono AAC playback now works correctly
Fixed: MOV/MP4 files with unsupported codec now handled properly
Known Issues
This will be fixed in a future firmware release.
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Live Video audio loss when playing live video before or after a video file
Note: For optimum video quality, your videos should fit the zone or screen
resolution (if full-screen) they will be displayed in.
Previous Firmware 3.5.62
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Support muting HDMI audio while leaving S/PDIF audio active
Support for inverting the polarity of serial ports
New read/write performance test to perform combined read and write
performance measurement.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Fixed: Multiple AAC files play successfully at the same time
Fixed: Broadcast UDP packets work properly when there is no default gateway
Fixed: Pause command now functions properly
Fixed: MOV/MP4 files play without dropping multiple frames at end of video
Fixed: Wi-Fi passwords of any length now properly accepted
Miscellaneous video playback improvements
Miscellaneous performance and reliability improvements
Miscellaneous HDMI improvements
Previous Firmware 3.5.42
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Supports MOV/MP4 files using H.264 (up to level 4.1) with AAC audio (CBR)
Supports Startup Splash screen with progress bar
Note: BrightAuthor currently supports three extensions: VOB, MPG, and TS. Change
MOV and MP4 extensions to TS to use them with BrightAuthor.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Improved Wi-Fi Reliability
Updated HDMI driver
Improved volume support for USB audio devices
Added ability to disable boot progress screen
Splash screen now shows both the Ethernet and WiFi MAC addresses
Fixed: pause/resume of transport streams now works properly
Fixed: pause/resume of MP3 files now works properly
Fixed: BrightSign boots successfully in auto mode with no display connected
Fixed: SPDIF/HDMI audio now plays consistently at start of video file
Various audio fixes.
Various reliability, performance and playback improvements
Various startup progress screen fixes and improvements
Various NTP improvements
Various startup speed improvements.
Previous Firmware 3.3.78
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Support for HD210w and HD1010w Wireless Units
Support for additional Touch screens
o Wacom CapPlus HID, Nexio, Zytronic, newer HP L2105TM, and
additional 3M
Support for up to 512 GB external USB drive
Support for various SD (480i and 576i) modes output as composite and S-Video
via the component RCA connectors or VGA connector (ntsc-m, ntsc-m-jpn, palI, pal-bg, pal-n, pal-nc, pal-m, and secam) using scripts
Support for IR input/out using NEC protocol (req. Iguanaworks IR Transceiver)
Support for Zwave USB lighting controller using scripts
Support for HTTP basic & digest authentication using scripts
Support for retrieving network configuration information using scripts
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Added ability to mute S/PDIF and HDMI audio
Added "factory reset" shell command that erases all registry entries
Added support for sending and receiving Byte Arrays over UDP
Added ability to get source address and source port from received UDP packets
Changed default NTP server to time.brightsignnetwork.com
Fixed: H.264 content no longer plays with jagged diagonal lines
Fixed: Iomega USB drives no longer reset and drop off the USB bus
Fixed: BrightSign properly requests a new DHCP lease when the old one expires
Fixed: 48KHZ audio content plays properly over HDMI output
Fixed: Image overlays now play properly over a video zone
Fixed: USB audio now works properly with Live Video Adapter
Fixed: Transport streams play without losing multiple frames at video end
Fixed: Transport streams play properly when paused and resumed
Fixed: SD cards using unsupported file systems can now be formatted
Improved touch screen calibration
Improved performance when system resources are low
Improved display of black levels over VGA
Previous Firmware 3.2.67
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Added Support for Acer T230H Touch screens
Added new roTextWidget for simple widgets that only contain one string at a time
Fixed: Playing an elementary stream while using same output works properly
Fixed: Background images in a strangely-sized video zone now work correctly
Fixed: LG touch screen now work correctly
Fixed: roTextWidget now handles whitespace at the of a string properly
Previous Firmware 3.2.65
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Improved quality of scaling for background images displayed on the video layer
Improved playback of low bit-rate program streams
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Updated default-autorun to better handle errors when playing an image, video, or
audio file
Fixed: roVideoPlayer.AddEvent works with videos not starting with time code of
zero.
Fixed: Clock foreground color displays correctly when there is a background image
Fixed: USB ETAP now works correctly
Fixed: BrightScript files (roCreateFile) are correctly flushed when they are closed.
Previous Firmware 3.2.61
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Touch screens - Added Support HP Quanta Touch screens
Improved support for improperly encoded videos
Various improvements to preloading video to better support synchronization
Fixed: All MP3s now play correctly through USB/Expander
Fixed: All MP3s now correctly generate end events
Fixed: VGA modes now selected correctly on all VGA monitors
Miscellaneous improvements to reliability and stability
Previous Firmware 3.2.53
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USB Expansion Module – firmware update v0.0.12 (automatically upgrades any
connected Expanders at boot.)
Improved playback of multiple audio tracks
Improved video playback performance, including better handling of improperly
terminated transport streams
Fixed: Mouse cursor now appears consistently
Fixed: Videos using 3:2 pull down now playback properly
Fixed: AC3 audio no longer be treated as PCM by some TVs
Miscellaneous improvements to Touchscreen support, including calibration
Miscellaneous improvements to default Autorun script in memory
Miscellaneous improvements to system stability
Previous Firmware 3.2.40
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USB Expansion Module – Added support for USB Expansion Module
Multiple Audio Streams – Supports multiple audio streams at the same time;
supports two audio when playing video with audio (1 video, plus 1 additional
audio); supports three audio streams separately, or when playing video with no
audio.
Video Resolutions – Added support 1280x768 and 1280x800
Font Update – Added support for more font character sets
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Improved Touchscreen compatibility and performance
Improved Video Mode detection when using AutoMode
Improved startup time for videos
Improved Audio and Video performance including:
o Improved video preload performance
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o Faster video startup times
o Better handling of improperly encoded files
o Better support for mp3 audio in transport streams
Improved Image playback performance
Improved network reliability
Fixed: The clock widget is now centered vertically within its rectangle
Fixed: Correct position for various 1920x1080 resolutions
Fixed: Removed excessive delay transitioning from Video to Image
Miscellaneous improvements providing better performance and reliability
Previous Firmware 3.1.73
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Multi-screen Playback – New Image and Video Player functions support Video
walls, displaying one image or video across multiple screens; Supports displaying
one region of an Image or Video full-screen.
Synchronization Update – New Video Player PreloadFile() and Play() functions
for faster start and improved synchronization. Click here to download updated sync
scripts at www.brightsign.biz/downloads/synchronize.zip.
Touchscreen Calibration – Added support for Touchscreen Calibration script,
available at www.brightsign.biz/downloads/calibrate.zip.
3M Touchscreen Support – Added support 3M USB touch screens that don't
support HID drivers.
Program Stream Looping – Added support for seamless looping (no audio)
RSS / Text Language Update - Support for Central European, Eastern European,
Cyrillic and Greek character sets
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Improved startup time for Program streams
Improved image preload performance
Improved GPIO performance to prevent phantom button presses
Improved JPEG performance
Improved HDMI start up to reduce "no signal" errors
Improved AC3 playback
Fixed: Correct vsync polarity used for 1360x768x60p
Fixed: Rotated text now displays properly
Fixed: Configuring a static IP address while Ethernet is disconnected no longer
causes an error message when Ethernet is connected
Fixed: Autorun.zip files now work properly
Miscellaneous improvements logging and debug improvements
Previous Firmware 3.1.46
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MPEG-2 Program Streams – Added Program Stream support (.mpg and .vob)
MPEG-1 System Streams – Added System Stream support
H.264 (MPEG-4) –Added support for Transport Streams (.ts)
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Live Video input - Play video full screen or in a window using the Live Video
Module. Now available at Brightsign Store!
USB Mouse Support enabled
IR Remote Control Enabled – Using the IguanaWorks USB InfraRed
Transceiver (receive only). See http://iguanaworks.net/product1.psp .
Portrait Text & RSS, and More – Supports changing alignment and
orientation. Rotate 90, 180, or 270 degrees, and align Left, Right, and Center.
Background Image – Added support for a full screen background image,
allowing you to display multiple image, text, rss, and clock zones over a static
background.
Clock Widget update – The clock now displays 88:88 if it hasn't been set
Configurable NTP – You can configure the NTP (Network Time Protocol) server.
Network Crash Reporting – Sends device info back to Brightsign servers if the
unit crashes and reboots. This can be configured or disabled in the registry.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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Updated Autorun.brs – Added support for new features, misc fixes
o Added support for Text/RSS alignment and orientation
o Added support for .mpg and .vob extensions for MPEG Program
Streams
o Fixed issue where GPIOOn and Elo keywords didn't work properly
o Fixed issue where Multi-State csv files didn't work properly
Improved Video Quality & Playback
Improved support for MP3 audio in videos
Improved support for AC3 audio pass-through
Improved autoplay and recovery to maximize uptime
Fixed: 1080p content plays correctly on VGA modes other than 1360 x 768
Fixed: Explode transitions now work correctly for small images
Fixed: Audio over HDMI at 1360x768 now works properly
Fixed: Transitions now apply properly to large images
Fixed: GMT+/- time zones now work properly
Fixed: The model number no longer appears with custom splash screens
Fixed: Mouse cursor always displays properly
Miscellaneous fixes in default autoplay script
Previous Firmware Version 3.0
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Built-In Autoplay Script – The autorun file is now included in memory. Just
copy your files, playlist, interactive playlist, or schedule to your SD card. There's no
need to copy autorun.brs file to the flash card.
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Automatic Playback – No need for a playlist to playback your files. Just copy
your audio, image, and video files to the SD card, and they'll play in alphabetical
order.
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Auto Video Mode – Brightsign will automatically set the video mode to the best
resolution supported by the Brightsign and the attached display.
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Full HD Quality – 1080p over HDMI
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New Interactive Playlist features – more interactivity without the need for
custom script
o Network Control – send and receive UDP commands
o Serial Control – send and receive serial commands
o Keyboard input – accept input from USB keyboard or barcode scanner
o Remote input – accept input from IR remote (IR input not yet available)
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Custom autorun.brs – The autorun file is included in memory. You can replace
it with your own custom script or a modified version of the existing autorun.brs.