- Feature You can now sign in with a passkey from the email field. Your browser shows your passkeys there; select one.
- Fix Fixed skipped frames in the video zones of a 4K layout. Screens with low effects now keep app backgrounds and news photos still.
- Fix Fixed fields that saved half a word when you typed Japanese, Chinese or Korean. The Enter key that confirms a word no longer saves the field.
Changelog
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- Feature You can now set the photo size and an animation in the **Menu Board** app. **Photo size** makes the item photos small, medium or large. **Animation** shows the items of each page one by one, or zooms slowly on the photos. Screens with little memory show the photos without the zoom.
- Feature You can now call the next number in **Now Serving** with a Wi-Fi button. Flic and Shelly buttons work. In the app settings, under **Next buttons**, make one link for each counter. The link calls the next number for that counter only. The link does not contain the control code. To stop a link, select **New link**.
- Feature You can now use a foot pedal or a USB button on the Now Serving staff page. A presenter remote also works. Space, Enter, Page Down and the right arrow key call the next number.
- Feature You can now show a Google Sheet or a CSV file as a list on a touch screen. Use the new **Touch list** app. A visitor touches an item to see the details. Back shows the list again. When nobody touches the screen, the list goes back to the top. A shared Google Sheet needs no sign-in.
- Feature You can now call the next number in **Now Serving** with a foot pedal on the screen. Connect the pedal or a USB button to the player of the screen. In the screen settings, under **Keyboard shortcuts**, select **Use a pedal for Next** and the counter. Space, Enter and Page Down then call the next number for that counter. When the queue shows on that screen, the screen shows the number for a short time. Your screens get this with their next update.
- Feature You can now put designs, playlists and layouts in folders, as on the Files page. Select **New folder** beside the search field. Drag items onto a folder, or select items and use **Move to folder**. Select a folder to show only its items. A search looks in all folders. A folder can hold other folders. Use the ⋯ menu of a folder to add a folder inside it, rename it, move it or delete it. When you delete a folder, its items move up one level.
- Feature You can now share a folder from Files live as one item in the Partner Console. Files that you add to the folder later go to each customer that gets it. Files that you remove stop playing there. You can share the same items with more customers in one step.
- Feature You can now make your own copy of an item that a partner shares live with your workspace. Select **Make my own copy**. The copy goes to your library, and you can change it. The shared item does not change. A shared folder now shows as one card in **Shared with us** on the Files page. Its files are inside the card.
- Improvement On the Screens list, the screens of a screen group show as usual screen rows. The group does not have an extra row. The screens of the group are next to each other, in the order they hang. A thin line at the left joins them. Below each screen name, the group name and the position show, for example Gun Counter · Left. Select the group name to open the group. The first screen of the group shows the playlist of the group. This row also shows how the screens play and if they change together. The small map beside each screen name has the color of the status of that screen. A screen that is off on its schedule now shows Off on its picture, not Offline.
- Improvement Some connections need a sign-in with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, TikTok, Square or Clover. A partner can sell the console under its own name. On such a console, these connections now show the name of the partner to contact. The partner sets up the connection for you. Accounts that you connected before continue to work.
- Improvement Put the pointer on a long folder name to see the full name. The full name shows on the Files, Designs, Playlists and Layouts pages. You can drag the edge of the folder column to make it wider. The console keeps the width.
- Improvement In the Partner Console, a customer page shows a list of the items that you share live. This list is now closed by default. It shows the number of items and their kinds. Open the list to see the items by kind. You can search them and stop sharing more than one at a time.
- Improvement Claude and ChatGPT can now make your own copy of an item that a partner shares live with you. Ask the assistant to copy the item. The assistant needs the same permissions as you do in the console. The shared item does not change. Items that a parent workspace shares stay read-only.
- Improvement Deleted folders on the Designs, Playlists and Layouts pages now stay in the recycle bin for 30 days. Select **Restore** to get the folder back with the folders inside it. The items that were in the folders go back into them. Items that you put in a different folder after the delete stay there.
- Fix Fixed portrait screens in the grid view of the Screens list. A portrait screen now shows upright, in its own shape. Before, it showed as landscape.
- Fix Fixed the Status column on the Groups tab. Screens that are off on their schedule now show in gray as off. Screens that are offline show in red. Before, all of them showed in red.
- Fix Fixed the pictures in **Shared with us** on the Files and Playlists pages. A file or playlist that another workspace shares with you now shows its picture. Before, it showed only an icon.
- Fix Fixed a message in the partner console. The message shows when you share live an item with an app that has a control code. The message now tells you to use Copy for this item. Before, the message told you to try again.
- Fix Fixed the small logo at the top of the Partner Console menu. The logo is now larger, on its own line above your name, and a wide logo keeps its shape.
- Fix Fixed the built-in text of apps on screens. The text no longer names the product. This includes the example messages in the **Message Ticker**, the error messages, and the downloaded file names. A **QR code** app with no link now shows no code.
- Fix Fixed webhooks and signed proof-of-play files for workspaces that a partner sells under its own name. Webhooks now send the headers webhook-signature and webhook-event. A signed export names the partner's console address as the signer.
- Fix Fixed the error messages that the console shows from the server. These messages no longer name the product. This includes connected apps, app sign-in, customer-managed keys and location billing.
- Fix Fixed the emails to the customers of a partner that sells the product under its own name. These emails now show the partner's product name and the partner's console address. We no longer send our billing emails to these customers, because their partner bills them.
- Fix Fixed Copy to client workspace in partner consoles. Copy to client workspace now copies playlists that have more than six items. Before, the copy stopped with an error.
- Fix Fixed the MCP address for workspaces that a partner sells under its own name. Settings, AI, API and MCP now shows the address of your console. Claude and ChatGPT sign in on your console. The sign-in page shows your product name.
- Fix Fixed the Partner Console sign-in. Sometimes the browser was also signed in to your own workspace on the same address. The correct password now signs you in. Before, the sign-in showed that the email and password did not match. The sign-in errors in the Partner Console now show in the language of the console.
- Fix Fixed the preview in the **Menu Board** settings. With Fullscreen selected, the preview now shows the full menu, as the screen does. Before, it showed one line of scrolling text. The same fix applies to the preview of every app that the server draws.
- Fix Fixed apps in a layout that has a theme. The text and the background of an app now both follow the theme of the layout. The layout editor and the screen show the same colors. Before, a **Menu Board** in a dark layout could keep a light background. Its item names and prices became hard to read.
- Fix Fixed Copy to client workspace in partner consoles. A playlist is now copied with all its items, or not at all. When a copy stops with an error, the message shows the same count as the progress. The message also tells you what was not copied. Copy the rest now completes a playlist that an earlier copy left with no items. Before, the message showed a different count, and Copy the rest showed this playlist as already there.
- Fix Fixed **Shared with us** on the Files page. The type filters and the search now also apply to the shared files. When you open one of your folders, **Shared with us** does not show. Before, the full list of shared files always showed.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in, password reset and set password pages. The error messages now show in the language of the console. Before, some of them showed in English.
- Fix Fixed the sign-up pages and the page that connects an app. The error messages now show in the language of the console. This includes the sign-up page and the partner application page. This also includes the sign-up page that a partner gives to its customers. Before, these messages showed in English.
- Feature You can now open a page for each screen group. Open Screens and select the Groups tab. A group shows its screens by location. The locations that have a screen off come first, and you can copy or download that list. You can change the content of all the screens in a group in one step. You can also refresh them in one step.
- Feature You can now make a screen group from part of a screen name, for example -GUN-. Brix shows the screens that match in each location before you save. The group can add new screens that match. You can also add screens from the Screens page. Select the screens. Select Add to a group.
- Feature You can now give each position of a screen group its own content. Open the group and select Content by position. Choose the content for each position, for example Left, Center and Right. Select Apply. A screen that joins a position later gets the content of that position. An AI assistant that you connect and the API can do the same.
- Feature You can now add a logo for dark backgrounds in the partner console. Open Branding. The menu of your customers' console and their screens show this logo. Each logo shows on a light and a dark sample before you save it.
- Feature You can now undo an action on the Now Serving staff page. After each action, the page tells you what happened and shows Undo for a few seconds. Open Advanced options to correct the number or to start the numbers again, for example at 1 each morning. The page has the look of your screen, with your logo. The page shows the next number and how many customers wait.
- Feature You can now arrange the screens of a screen group as they hang on the wall. Open a group and select **How they play**. Select **Arrange the screens**.
- Feature You can now share items from your partner library to a client workspace live. The client always sees your latest version and cannot change it. In the partner console, open a client and select Choose what to copy. Select Share live. To stop, select Stop sharing. Live sharing works only when the library and the client keep their data in the same region.
- Feature You can now show a Google Slides presentation on your screens. Add the Google Slides app and paste the link of the presentation. The slides change on their own and start again after the last slide. In Google Slides, set General access to Anyone with the link first.
- Feature You can now show a Google Docs document on your screens. Add the Google Docs app and paste the link of the document. The screen makes the page as wide as the screen and scrolls slowly through a long document. Changes in the document show on the screen within 5 minutes.
- Feature You can now show live high school scores and upcoming games from ScoreStream. Add the ScoreStream app and paste the embed code of your ScoreStream widget.
- Feature You can now see the screens of a screen group together on the Screens list. In each location, the screens of a group sit in one band, in the order they hang. A small map beside each name shows where the screen hangs. One cell says what the screens play and if they change together.
- Feature You can now put an item that another workspace shares with you inside your own playlist or schedule. Open a playlist. The library shows these items under Shared with you, with the name of the workspace that shares them. Select Add. In a schedule, choose the item for a block or for the empty hours. The item plays the latest version from the workspace that shares it, and you cannot change it. When that workspace stops sharing, the item leaves your playlist and the other items keep playing.
- Improvement Customers can now cancel a Now Serving ticket on a phone. The place becomes free at once. The page has the look of your screen and shows the number and how many people are before the customer. When staff call the number, the page changes color and the phone vibrates. A ticket stops at the end of the day, and the customer can take a new number.
- Improvement An AI assistant that you connect can now make a screen group with rules and positions. The assistant can also send content or a command to all the screens in a group. The API can do the same.
- Improvement The Screens list now shows which locations are inside another location. An arrow marks a location that is inside another, and the names before it show the path. When you close a location, the locations inside it close too. The number on a location counts all the screens inside it.
- Improvement You can now select a location name in a heading on the Screens list to show only that location. The Filtered by line shows the path. Select a name in the path to go back up, or select Clear to show all screens.
- Improvement A location that holds other locations now has its own heading on the Screens list. An example is a state that holds stores but has no screens of its own. The heading shows the number of screens in the locations inside it. Close the heading to close all those locations. A location that holds only one location shows in the path of that location.
- Improvement The Back button of your browser now goes out of a location that you opened on the Screens list. The Forward button opens the location again.
- Improvement A screen group page now draws all the screens of the group. A group can have 2 positions or 16. Portrait screens show as portrait. A wall shows its rows. The page tells you when a group has portrait and landscape screens together.
- Improvement A screen group page now shows what a group changes. The page tells you what happens to the content of a screen that joins or leaves the group. The dialog Add to a group tells you the same before you add.
- Improvement The Screens page has fewer controls. Groups is now a tab next to All screens. New location is a small control in the bar. One button sets list or grid. The box to select a screen now shows on each row, and Filter can show the screens of one group.
- Improvement Copy to client workspace shows how many items it copied while the copy runs.
- Improvement Partner demo screens are free for 30 days. After that, they show a card until you buy licenses. The Licenses page shows the date.
- Improvement A screen group page now has three tabs: **Screens**, **How they play** and **Rules**. The **Screens** tab shows first which locations have a screen that is off.
- Improvement The Billing page now shows an invoice that you must pay at the top, with a Pay now button. Payment shows how you pay first, and a saved card tells you when we do not charge it. Your plan shows its price first. The renewal date tells you if we email an invoice or charge your card.
- Improvement On a plan agreed with us, pairing past the plan now shows the price first. You pay for the rest of your term.
- Improvement Brix now sends an email to the owners of an account when the way the account pays changes. The email tells you who made the change and if we charge a card or send an invoice.
- Improvement The **How they play** page of a screen group now has a **Choose a playlist** button. The page shows the steps in order. The page lists the three ways to play one playlist together. These ways need a player update, and the page tells you so. Until the update, use **Content by position**. When screens in the group have no position, a note tells you why. You can place them in one step.
- Improvement The **Rules** tab of a screen group now shows each rule as one sentence. The sentence tells you which screens the rule adds and how the rule gives them a position. Select **Change** to change a rule, or **Remove** to remove it. The screens that a rule added stay in the group.
- Improvement A screen group page now has one main button. The name of the button tells you what the button does. The name is **Choose what plays**, or **Change playlist** when the group plays one playlist. The preview on **How they play** now shows one change at a time, with a number. You can pause the preview or go one change forward or back. When each screen plays the playlist on its own, the page tells you so.
- Improvement The Google Sheets app can now show a sheet with no Google sign-in. Select a sheet from Data sources that is shared with Anyone with the link. A table that is taller than the screen now shows one page at a time.
- Improvement The ScoreStream app now shows the games full screen, with team colors and logos. If the scores do not load, the screen shows the ScoreStream widget.
- Improvement New content now starts sooner when its files are not on the screen yet. The screen downloads those files first and at full speed. The old content plays until then.
- Fix Fixed the heading “People with access” in the location panel. The heading showed text markup.
- Fix Fixed the tier of a new location. A location that you add under another location is now one tier below it.
- Fix Fixed the banner after a failed card payment. The banner now tells you when we try the card again and the last day to pay. The banner text is in your console language.
- Fix Fixed Now Serving screens on a partner web address. The screen now shows the number that staff call, not the start number.
- Fix Fixed Copy to client workspace when you select many items. The copy now starts.
- Fix Fixed the VAT number in the partner console. The number is now optional in the EU and the UK, and you can buy licenses without it.
- Fix Fixed the number on the Now Serving staff page. The − and + buttons and a number that you type now change the number, and the number stays changed. If a change is not possible, the page tells you why.
- Fix Fixed the last calls on the Now Serving screen. The QR code box no longer cuts them off. The screen shows each of the last calls in full at all screen sizes.
- Fix Fixed the **More** button being cut off in the bar that shows when you select screens.
- Fix Fixed Show me how on the Get started cards after you skip setup. Show me how now opens the guide for that task.
- Fix Fixed Settings → Security when a partner or support person opens your workspace. The page now tells them that the sign-in settings belong to each person. The page does not try to load these settings.
- Fix Fixed the price that the Billing page shows when you add screens and you pay by invoice. The page said that we charge your card. The page now tells you that we email an invoice, and the date it is due. The dialog that adds a screen past your plan tells you the same.
- Fix Fixed the due date of an invoice for added screens or for a plan renewal. The due date now uses the payment terms that you agreed with us.
- Fix Fixed a screen group that you make from screens that you pick having no positions. The screens now take positions from their names, or in the order in which you pick them. To change a position later, open the group, select **How they play** and select **Change positions**.
- Fix Fixed the pictures of items that another workspace shares with you. The playlist and schedule editors now show the picture of a shared file, design, layout or playlist. Before, they showed only an icon.
- Fix Fixed the large preview in the screen panel: a short scroll now makes the preview small.
- Fix Fixed a black frame on some screens after the player restarted. The screen now shows its last picture until the first video plays.
- Feature You can now copy content from your library into a customer workspace in the Partner Console. Open a customer and select Choose what to copy. You can copy designs, folders, files, playlists, layouts and apps. The files and fonts that they use come with them. The customer gets its own copies. A design that uses a data source keeps its fields. Connect the customer's own data source after the copy.
- Improvement A wide partner logo now shows as a full wordmark. The change applies to the sign-in page, the console and a screen in a browser before you pair it. A wide logo no longer sits in a small square beside the product name. A square logo stays beside the name.
- Improvement A screen in a browser now shows the pairing screen in the language of the browser. The languages are English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. On a partner console address, a browser in another language shows the language of the partner.
- Improvement An AI assistant that you connect to the console can now show a layout on a screen. A layout from an assistant now opens in the layout editor with a name on each zone. Each zone also shows the name of what it plays.
- Improvement Check content now checks apps. Brix marks an app Loaded when it shows its content. Brix marks it Did not load when it still shows Loading, shows no values or shows a message. The reason shows under the picture.
- Improvement In ChatGPT, attach a photo, a video or a PDF and ask the assistant to use it. The assistant now puts the file into Files. The assistant can then use the file in a design, a playlist or a layout.
- Improvement An AI assistant that you connect can now do almost all of your work in the console. The assistant can make and change alert rules, webhooks and power policies. The assistant can also make and change banners, RS232 templates and ad slots. The assistant can take content off all screens at once and put the content back. The assistant can add captions to a video, turn a photo and set a poster. The assistant can claim screens that Brix finds on your network. The assistant can read the logs and the running order of a screen. The assistant can change the name and the preferences of the workspace. The assistant can show a picture of a layout, a design or an app. You keep billing, API keys, sign-in secrets and people in the console.
- Improvement In the Partner Console, Copy from your library now shows a picture of each design and file. A playlist and a folder show the picture of their first item. Files that come with what you select show as Included. You can now stop a copy while it runs. The copies that it made stay in the customer workspace. Select Copy the rest to copy the others.
- Improvement In the Partner Console, Copy again now shows the name of the new copy, for example Welcome board (2). The new copy gets that name in the customer workspace. When you select a design that uses a data source, its row tells you to connect the data. After a copy, the card shows one main action. It opens the copy that needs a data source, or the workspace.
- Fix Fixed the Now Serving phone pages for workspaces with data outside the United States. The customer page and the staff page now open on a phone with no sign-in. The screen now shows the workspace logo and the number of people in the queue.
- Fix Fixed apps that use a data source or a connected account, for workspaces with data outside the United States. These apps now show their data on the screen.
- Fix Fixed Save branding in the Partner Console. Save branding removed a logo that you uploaded on the same page.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in button on a partner console. The button now uses the accent color from your branding. The pages to set a password and to create an account use the accent color too. The text on the button is dark on a light color and white on a dark color.
- Fix Fixed the app pictures in the layout editor and in Check content. Each app now shows live, in the shape that the screen gives it. A ticker shows its strip. A sidebar shows its narrow version.
- Fix Fixed app pictures that showed old content. The picture of an app in playlists, pickers and screen lists now updates every hour.
- Fix Fixed screenshots in an AI assistant. The assistant got the details of a screenshot but not the picture.
- Fix Fixed pages in the console that closed when a translation loaded late. On a customer page in the Partner Console, the open window now stays. The search text and the items that you selected stay too.
- Fix Fixed the console closing to the message Could not load your account when your connection was slow. The console now stays open. The text that you typed stays too.
- Fix Fixed Pair a screen when the lookup of a code was slow. Pair a screen said that the code was not found on the network. The lookup now tries again.
- Feature You can now use Now Serving in a shop with two or more counters. Each person selects a counter on the phone page and presses Next. The screen shows the number and the counter that calls it. The screen also shows the last numbers called. Call again repeats a number. Add a chime or a voice, an animation, a logo, a font and a number color.
- Feature You can now show a Counters display in Now Serving. Each counter has a card with the number that it called last. A colored border shows the counter that calls now.
- Feature You can now let customers take a number on their phone in Now Serving. Set How customers get a number to On their phone. The screen then shows a QR code. The phone shows the number, how many people wait and the counter that calls it. Staff can also give a number to a customer with no phone.
- Feature You can now buy partner licenses on a monthly plan for $8 per screen per month, with no commitment. The Partner Console shows the two plans side by side. We charge screens that you add in a month only for the days that are left. Screens that you remove stop at the end of the month. You can switch between monthly and annual billing at renewal. The billing panel shows the next charge date and amount.
- Feature You can now print a staff card for Now Serving. Staff scan the card to call numbers from a phone. On the phone page, Add a colleague shows the same QR code for a second phone. After you make a new control code, a phone with the old link shows that the link was replaced. The customer page turns green when the number is called.
- Feature You can now enter your billing details in the Partner Console. Go to Licenses and enter the legal name, the address and the VAT number of your company. We print these details on each invoice. You can download each invoice as a PDF.
- Feature You can now see how Now Serving works before you set it up. The app settings show the steps in pictures, for customers and for staff. Select a picture to see it larger with an explanation.
- Feature You can now show your workspace logo in Now Serving. In the app settings, set Logo to The workspace logo. The logo and your brand color also show on the phone pages. The printed staff card shows the logo too.
- Feature You can now ask a connected AI assistant to set up Now Serving from start to end. The assistant reads the settings of the app and gives you the staff link and the staff card. The assistant can also make a new control code.
- Improvement The Weather app has a new design. The temperature is larger. You can read the forecast cards from a longer distance. The sky shows the sun, clouds, rain and snow in more detail.
- Improvement Use SSO only now asks for your password before it removes the password. Use SSO only also asks for a code when two-factor authentication is on.
- Improvement A full plan now refuses a screen that moves out of a location that pays for itself. Add screens to the plan first. Move the screen after that.
- Improvement Owners now get an email when our support team invites a person to the workspace. We send the email when your Support access setting tells us or asks you first.
- Improvement When you end support access, a password reset link that our support team holds stops working.
- Improvement Weather, Clock, Countdown and RSS now use French words that a person wrote. This replaces the machine translation.
- Improvement The partner console now shows a setup list on the Dashboard. The list asks for your logo and product name first. Each step has a button that opens the page for that step.
- Improvement Your profile now has a Console view setting. Your view is the same in each workspace that you open.
- Improvement Your console language and view are now the same in each workspace that you sign in to.
- Improvement In Now Serving, the QR code for the control page is now only in the console. The screen does not show it. You can print the QR code and make a new control code.
- Improvement The Partner Console now has a Licenses page. The page shows your bought licenses and your demo licenses. The annual plan and the monthly plan are side by side with the price of each license.
- Improvement The order summary for partner licenses now shows the plan and the number of licenses that you buy. The summary also shows the amount that you pay today and the date of the next payment.
- Improvement Partner licenses are now simpler. A partner account has 5 demo licenses for demo screens. A customer screen needs a bought license. A customer screen with no bought license continues to play and shows a DEMO mark. The Licenses page shows the number of screens with the mark and the number of licenses that remove it.
- Improvement The Partner Console now asks for a VAT number when your company is in the EU or the UK. We do not charge VAT on these sales. The invoice says that the customer accounts for VAT under the reverse charge.
- Improvement The Partner Console now has a Licenses page. The page shows your bought licenses, your free trial licenses and your demo screens. The page also tells you what happens when the free trial ends. The annual plan and the monthly plan are side by side with the price of each license.
- Improvement The order summary for partner licenses now shows the plan and the licenses that you keep from the trial. The summary also shows the amount that you pay today and the date of the next payment.
- Improvement The Now Serving settings are easier to read. The text under a setting now describes the option that you selected. The app description is shorter. The pictures of the steps are larger.
- Improvement On a partner console, each Now Serving QR code and link now uses the address of the partner console.
- Fix Fixed Delete in Files. A file now goes to the recycle bin when the database is busy for a moment.
- Fix Fixed templates that showed the business name two times along the bottom.
- Fix Fixed the fonts in apps. Apps on screens and in previews now use the app font and the font you select.
- Fix Fixed drag to select on a design that has a full-page background part.
- Fix Fixed the buttons on a design card that covered the name of the design.
- Fix Fixed Preview for a design with the Weather app in a content box, when the connector made the design. Preview now shows the same Weather card as the screen.
- Fix Fixed the name, language and view in a workspace that you open from the Partner Console. The console names you as your support team, for example "Acme support". The console uses your own language, and the view menu changes the view. Both stay the same in each customer workspace.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in on your own domain for a person who is also on your partner team. The sign-in page now asks which account to open: their own account or the Partner Console.
- Fix Fixed the Fullscreen preview in the Now Serving settings. It now shows the full screen layout with the counter, the last numbers called and the QR code.
- Fix Fixed the staff link and the printed staff card of Now Serving. A phone that opened the link from the console showed No connection, and the number did not change.
- Feature You can now show only some rows in Repeat for each row. Set the most rows to show. Add filters on a column, for example "Active is yes" or "Price is less than 300000".
- Feature You can now see which sheet rows play in a design that repeats for each row. The list under the canvas shows each row with its slide number or the reason it does not play. Select a column name to filter on it.
- Feature You can now duplicate a design, copy parts into another design, and drag to select many parts.
- Improvement The free trial banner shows the day the trial ends. After you add a card and choose a plan, the banner shows the start day of the plan. The banner also shows the card we charge.
- Improvement A canceled account starts again when a payment for the account succeeds. The cancel reason has no effect on the restart. An account with a deletion request stays closed.
- Improvement In Files, a video that Brix prepares for screens shows a progress bar. The card also shows the time when the video is ready.
- Fix Fixed the free trial banner. The banner shows how many days are left in the trial again. A free trial now ends at the end of the day, Pacific time.
- Fix Fixed design previews and design cards. They show the full design at one time, not one picture at a time.
- Fix Fixed the edit time on Playlists and the open time on Alerts. In French and German, they no longer go into the next column.
- Fix Fixed the console for screen readers and small targets. The dates on the Schedules week are easier to read. The location rows on the Organization chart are larger. The chart does not get smaller than 72%.
- Fix Fixed the screen command buttons. After a screen refuses a command, Retry now stays busy until the screen answers.
- Fix Fixed the RSS app in small layout zones, for example a layout with four zones. The full headline shows, and the photo fills the zone. An article without a photo shows its summary, not an empty box.
- Fix Fixed the screen panel for a screen that stops checking in for 20 minutes. The panel does not show a live Wi-Fi icon or live sync progress. A command to the screen tells you that it runs when the screen reconnects.
- Fix Fixed Request approval on playlists, schedules and designs. The button follows the approval status. The button does not show on approved content, and it comes back after a reject. If you select it two times, Brix sends one request. On a schedule, the approval status shows in your language, and Rejected shows in red.
- Fix Fixed a new screen in the Screens list. For three minutes after you pair it, the row shows Starting, also after the list refreshes. Get started does not mark the step done until the screen checks in.
- Fix Fixed pairing a screen when your plan is full. If you delete an old screen and the new screen does not pair, the old screen comes back. If you add screens to your plan and the new screen does not pair, the screens stay on your plan. The code step tells you. Type the code again.
- Fix Fixed saving in the design editor. Two saves no longer run at the same time, so you do not see a conflict with your own changes. Show on screens and Back wait for the save. If the save does not work, the design stays on the page.
- Fix Fixed Now Serving when two people use the control link at the same time. Each press of + now calls the next number.
- Fix Fixed apps that stayed empty in a layout zone. This happened on web browser screens on a partner domain.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app and app previews showing English words when the content language is not English.
- Fix Fixed the approval state on Schedules. A schedule at a location that needs approval shows its approval state and the Request approval button again.
- Fix Fixed Request approval when someone saves a change to the content at the same time. Brix withdraws the request and tells you to send it again. The approver always sees the current version.
- Fix Fixed the free trial length for new signups. A trial now lasts exactly 7 days (168 hours). On the first day, the trial banner shows 7 days left, not 8.
- Fix Fixed the percentage on a video that Brix prepares for screens. In Files, the percentage now moves while the page is open.
- Fix Fixed blank labels in the console. Now you see the TV state on a screen, outage causes, alert names, page titles and the QR code options. A QR code layer shows the name QR code. The design shows No link until you type a link.
- Fix Fixed a wait of up to 15 minutes before a new web page showed on a screen. The page now starts when its picture is ready.
- Fix Fixed a long status on the Screens page that ran under the row menu.
- Fix Fixed the starter web page in a new account. Our website now opens your own website, from the address you signed up with. A parked or "coming soon" site is not added.
- Fix Fixed: unsaved changes in the design editor no longer disappear a few seconds after you leave a field.
- Fix Fixed Fit full-screen in the design editor. The button is off for a picture that already fills the screen.
- Improvement The dashboard shows each screen state on one line, with a color and a number. Select a state to see those screens. Select a screen name under Needs attention to open that screen.
- Improvement Changed the Alerts page. Each problem shows its severity on the title line and when it started. Select a screen in an alert to open that screen. Dismiss all is now a button.
- Improvement In the playlist editor, select a file in the library to add it to the playlist. Select Undo to remove it again. An empty playlist now shows "Not on any screen yet".
- Improvement Proof of Play shows Skipped in amber only when screens skip 5% or more of the plays.
- Improvement The Screens list shows one heading for each location that has screens. The heading shows the path to the location, for example "High School › Main Building › Hallway". The workspace name is no longer a heading.
- Improvement Removed the Last seen column from the Screens list. The status of a screen shows the time when the screen is offline or does not respond.
- Improvement In the screen panel, the preview of a screen is larger. When the TV is off, on a different input or not found, the preview is dim and shows why.
- Improvement Pair a screen when your plan is full, and the CMS asks: new screen or replacement? For new screens, choose how many to add. The CMS shows the price for that number before you pay. Pair the other screens later at no extra cost. A replacement is free.
- Improvement Proof of Play is now only in the Settings menu. It is no longer in the main menu under Overview.
- Improvement A screen's panel now shows each problem from the Screens list in one box. The box uses the words and color of the list. The box tells you what happened and what to do, with a button for the next step. Before, some problems did not show in the panel, for example very low memory.
- Improvement When a screen is blank, its problem card now says why. Causes include an empty playlist, a past end date, a page that needs a sign-in, or a black picture. The card says who last changed the content and how many screens a fix changes. It has a one-click fix such as Remove end date, Add items or Restart the player.
- Fix Fixed location names that were cut short in the organization chart. A location now shows its worst problem, for example "1 offline" or "3 issues". Hold the pointer on it to see all of its problems.
- Fix Fixed the Proof of Play CSV file with each play. The start time of each play is now the time the play started. Before, it was the time the play ended.
- Fix Fixed the blank screen warning, which did not say why the screen was blank. The warning now names the cause, for example an empty playlist or a page that shows only a sign-in.
- Feature You can now give a QR code in a design your colors and a line of text under it.
- Feature You can now see the plays and minutes of each advertiser at each venue in Proof of Play. An advertiser is a tag on your files and designs. Select By advertiser. Each advertiser has its own CSV file to send to the advertiser.
- Feature You can now change the brand kit, the organization tiers and the AI settings with permission to edit settings. Admins have this permission.
- Improvement The API no longer accepts a sign-in key or an API key in a web address. Send the key in the Authorization header. Screens are not affected.
- Improvement Changed the minutes in the By advertiser report in Proof of Play. Minutes now count finished plays only. The report also shows the plays that did not finish.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in policy and accessibility settings for a person who cannot edit billing. These settings are now read-only for that person, with a note that says why. Before, a change failed with an error.
- Fix Fixed screens that stayed off after you paid an overdue invoice. Before, some screens stayed off until you changed their content.
- Fix Fixed the shape of a new QR code on a portrait design. The code is now square, with clear space from the edges. A corner drag keeps the code square.
- Improvement The Screens list now shows the last captured frame for screens that play an app.
- Improvement The screen panel now shows a Problem row when the TV is off, on another input, missing or covered.
- Improvement More console text now shows in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, including error messages.
- Fix Fixed the low storage and low memory warnings on screens that play a playlist or schedule.
- Feature You can now filter Proof of Play by groups and tags. Tag an advertiser's files, select the venues, and export one report by group or by screen.
- Feature You can now make a QR code in the console. Add a QR code layer to a design. Or select QR code in Files to save the code as a picture.
- Feature You can now save brand kits in Settings > Brand in DOOH workspaces and the Enterprise view. Open an app and select a kit in Appearance.
- Feature You can now add tags to designs. Proof of Play can report on a design's tag, the same as a file's tag.
- Feature You can now get a Proof of Play report by email each week or each month. Set the filters, open Export, and select Email reports. The report goes to people in your workspace, with one CSV by group and one by screen.
- Improvement Keep the TV on this input now says what it does. In open hours, this setting turns the TV back on if someone turns the TV off. The TV must support HDMI-CEC.
- Fix Fixed sign-in for partner team members when the last customer they opened is archived. They now go to the customer list.
- Fix Fixed a browser screen that went black 30 seconds after it opened. This occurred in a browser signed in to the console. The screen now keeps its content.
- Fix Fixed a problem where a browser screen showed the words of a design before its photo. The screen now waits a short time for the photo.
- Fix Fixed the way back to full screen on a browser screen. After a screen restarts by itself, one tap returns it to full screen.
- Fix Fixed a browser screen where a video with sound did not start until someone touched the screen. The video now plays muted. Tap the screen to turn on the sound.
- Fix Fixed a slow pairing code on a browser that kept an old screen token. The code now shows in a few seconds.
- Fix Fixed a white flash when a browser screen reloads. The page now stays black until the screen is ready.
- Fix Fixed Proof of Play: the Screens and Content filters now change the report, the totals and the CSV. Before this fix, a filtered report showed every screen and all content.
- Fix Fixed the QR code overlay on web pages in Files: the screen now shows the code.
- Feature You can now see each column of your sheet once in the Tag menu, with a sample value. If a design has no data source, the menu offers your sheets.
- Feature You can now copy diagnostics from the settings panel of a browser screen. Tap the gear in the top-right corner to open the panel. The button copies the record of the screen and sends it to support.
- Improvement Content Managers can now see the data sources at their locations and use them in designs. Only a person with access to integrations can add or change a source.
- Improvement Data source addresses, webhook addresses and the webhook delivery log now show only to people who can edit integrations. Celebration entries and HR, sales, CRM and analytics data follow the same rule.
- Improvement A new browser screen in a portrait window now starts on Portrait, so its first content fills the window. You can change this in the screen's settings.
- Fix Fixed the message when you rotate a video that is not ready. It now tells you to wait.
- Fix Fixed the message when a location does not have your content. It now tells you to share it there.
- Fix Fixed folder Rename and Delete in Files. They now show only to people with permission to use them.
- Fix Fixed a new pairing code that could show on a screen as you entered the old code.
- Fix Fixed "1 need attention" showing during the first content change on a new screen.
- Fix Fixed text in a number or date column of a Google Sheet. Text such as "sur devis" now shows on screens as it shows in the sheet.
- Fix Fixed a sheet you add on the Google Sheets card not showing on that card. The row has Open, Sync and Remove.
- Fix Fixed the canvas in the design editor flickering between two sizes on some window sizes.
- Fix Fixed uploads from inside a folder. Upload now opens on the folder you are in, so your files go there. An empty folder now says that it is empty.
- Fix Fixed what a Fire TV offers in the screen panel. Reboot does not show, because a Fire TV cannot reboot from the console. The TV power note now says that the Fire TV is the limit, not your TV.
- Feature You can now import designs from JSON. On Templates, select Upload. Select Upload file or Paste JSON. You can choose several .json files at once. Each design is checked before it is created.
- Feature You can now start from a menu pack for 3 or 4 screens. On Templates, one card shows every screen of the pack. Select Use all 3 screens to make one design for each screen. Use Screen setup on the left to find the packs for your number of screens.
- Feature You can now move a folder to a different location. On Files, select the location icon on the folder. Its subfolders and files move with it.
- Improvement Templates, Browse has a new layout. Search at the top. On the left, pick what the sign is for and your screen setup. Each list shows how many templates it has. Each card shows the screens as they hang on the wall. Select a card to open the template's own page. The page shows every screen, the designs that Use creates, and what you can change. The layouts with a space for your own video are now in New design, Start from a layout.
- Improvement Content at the workspace level is now private to head office by default. People at a location see the content of their location. They also see what other people share with them. To show a head office folder to everyone, select Share. Select Everyone. People at a location keep the access that they had before this change.
- Fix Fixed variable fonts in Brand, Custom fonts. A .woff2 file now shows its real font name and all of its weights.
- Fix Fixed designs that use a custom font. Your designs, the editor and the full-screen preview now show the font from Brand, Custom fonts. The screens show the same font.
- Fix Fixed Download as image for designs. The PNG now shows all of the text and images at the full size of the design. Download as image is also in the default editor.
- Fix Fixed adding a CSV data source from a connected app such as Claude. Before this fix, the app showed an error.
- Fix Fixed sign-in. A wrong password shows its error again.
- Fix Fixed drag on the Screens list. A screen now moves to the location under the pointer. Before this fix, it could move to the location above. On a touch screen, press and hold a screen to drag it.
- Feature You can now find a screen setting by name. Screen settings are now one list with headers. Type in Find a setting to go to it.
- Feature You can now search every list in the console. Press / to search and Esc to clear. A line above the list shows the filters you use.
- Feature You can now act on many items at once with one bar. The bar is on Screens, Files, Playlists, Schedules, Layouts, Designs, Web pages, Apps and Alerts.
- Feature You can now search and filter alerts on the Alerts page, and dismiss many alerts at once.
- Feature You can now set a person or a role to Only content shared with them. These people see the content of their own location and the folders that you share with them.
- Feature You can now choose Content new people can see for your workspace. People that you add later start with this choice. The people that you have now keep what they see.
- Improvement When you delete something, the console now shows Undo first. Messages now show in one place, with a countdown.
- Improvement The console now asks in its own dialog before it does something you cannot undo.
- Improvement Lists now show a placeholder while they load. A list that does not load now tells you.
- Improvement Removed Quick Post. To show a message for a set time, make a design in Templates. Then cast the design to your screens. The API route `POST /v1/quick-posts` now answers 410 Gone. Use `POST /v1/creatives` and `POST /v1/casts` instead.
- Improvement A sidebar label now opens after a short delay when you rest the pointer on its icon.
- Improvement The console now opens faster after you sign in. The console downloads less and sends fewer requests.
- Improvement The Screens page now opens faster. The page shows the first screens at once and adds more as you scroll.
- Improvement The playlist editor and the screen panel now open with fewer requests.
- Improvement Show on screens now offers Add to what is playing only where a playlist can play the design. Elsewhere the dialog opens on Show only this.
- Fix Fixed the time zone help on screens. The help now says on and off times.
- Fix Fixed Touch badges on the Screens page that disappeared for a moment while the list refreshed.
- Fix Fixed an error when you added a template to a playlist. Where a playlist cannot play a template, the library now shows a note. Put the template on a screen or in a layout instead.
- Fix Fixed "Expand all" in Invite a person. The button shows only when a location has locations inside. The button changes to "Collapse all" when all locations are open.
- Fix Fixed the weather box in designs when the weather service does not answer. The box shows the town and dashes.
- Feature You can now share a folder in Files with a location, a person or a role. Choose Can use or Can edit. The files in the folder go with it. A screen does not go blank when you stop sharing.
- Feature You can now use the console in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Each person chooses the console language in Your profile. Until you choose, the console uses the language of your country.
- Feature You can now change the role and the locations of a person from People. Owners and admins can do this.
- Improvement You can now choose your own view (Simple, Team or Enterprise) in the sidebar menu. Your choice stays after you reload, on every computer. A role can set a default view in Organization → Roles. With 1 to 10 screens, everyone opens in Simple. With 11 to 50 screens, each role opens in its default view, but not larger than Team. With more than 50 screens, an Admin opens in Enterprise. A Content Manager opens in Simple at all sizes. Select Use default to go back to the default view.
- Improvement Each screen now shows its Content language in its settings. Your workspace has one content language, and you can change it for each screen.
- Improvement The screen panel now opens with one request. The panel shows the status and the reason for it at the same time.
- Improvement When you delete many files, playlists or schedules at once, the CMS now deletes them in one step.
- Improvement You can now close many alerts at once.
- Fix Fixed an error when a person who cannot edit billing changed a workspace setting. Formats and language and Sound on Settings → Workspace are now read-only for that person. A note tells them who can change these settings.
- Fix Fixed browser screens that turned the wrong way when you rotated them. A browser screen now turns with the window that shows it.
- Fix Fixed Signage Player screens that showed the Brix name and logo after they paired to a Brix account.
- Fix Fixed a corner mark on the screens of a partner's customers.
- Fix Fixed an email about your own claim when you claim a screen with one button.
- Fix Fixed demo screens that sometimes showed Not responding.
31 October
A new Signage Stick adds itself. Brix finds the stick on your network. One button puts your design on the screen.
27 October
Remove many items at once. Shift-select a range in a playlist, and remove it or set its time in one step.
9 October
Find screens by tag. Filter the Screens list by tag, or change the tags of many screens at once.
8 October
Share a playlist with every location. One Share dialog sets the access for each location, role or person.
5 October
Touch kiosks. A tap on a box in a design opens a web app full screen.
- Feature You can now add a screen that Brix finds on your network with one button. The screen gets a name and shows the design from setup.
- Feature You can now rename a screen from its panel. Select the name and type the new name. Press Enter to keep it, or select Undo.
- Feature You can now add your Signage Stick during sign-up. If the stick is on your network, the first step finds it. Then choose when the screen stays on with one tap.
- Improvement Your first screen now pairs from its code in one step. To change its name, select the name and type.
- Improvement New workspaces now go straight to setup after the first questions. You tap how you heard about us. You must give a phone number in the US and Canada.
- Improvement Sign-up now fills in how many screens from the sticks it finds on your network. A stick on a portrait screen gets portrait designs.
- Improvement Put a video on a screen while we prepare the file, and the CMS says so. The CMS also gives the wait. The screen changes to the video when the file is ready.
- Improvement The screens list now shows the new content on a screen within a few seconds after you change it. Before, this took up to 30 seconds.
- Fix Fixed a new screen that showed "Waiting for device" and "1 not paired" right after it paired.
- Fix Fixed a Retry button that showed nothing when your account did not load. The button now shows that it tries again. The button tells you if the retry also fails.
- Fix Fixed the console reloading to an error page when your connection dropped. The console now stays open and keeps your changes until the connection comes back.
- Fix Fixed a screen that reads Out of sync for up to 30 seconds after you change its content. The screen now reads Switching until it reports what it shows.
- Fix Fixed a pair dialog that said Ready for content after you paired your first screen. The dialog now names the design the screen plays.
- Fix Fixed a timeout error in the console after your computer wakes from sleep.
- Fix Fixed an error that one slow check showed in the list of new screens on this network.
- Feature You can now share a design with franchise workspaces from a connected app or the API. The app or the API sets the prices for each location. The franchise changes only the prices. Changes to the main design still reach all screens.
- Improvement Franchise price changes on a shared design now go live without review by default.
- Feature You can now add a card from a banner in the 30 days before your plan renews. With no card on the renewal day, your screens stop. They start again when you add a card or pay the invoice.
- Feature You can now move a new player onto an existing screen when your plan has no free place. Brix shows the price before you add a new screen. You can also delete an old screen first.
- Improvement Sign-up now asks for a work email when you use a temporary inbox. Personal email such as Gmail still works.
- Feature You can now select many items in the playlist editor. Select one item. Hold Shift and select another item to select all the items between them. Set the duration of the selected items or remove them in one step. Undo puts removed items back.
- Feature You can now see a picture of a web page on your own network in its panel. A screen at that location takes the picture, and the panel shows the name of the screen and the time. Select Refresh to get a new picture. A screen needs the newest player to take the picture. If no screen can take it, the panel tells you.
- Improvement When you pair more screens during your trial than your plan pays for, your plan grows to fit them. The pair dialog tells you the new number of screens before you pair. You can change the plan in Settings → Billing.
- Improvement You can now drag screens onto a group on Screens to move them there.
- Improvement Set Wi-Fi no longer sends a network that is already saved on the screen. A wrong password for a saved network can take the screen offline. To change the password of a saved network, use the Amazon Signage phone app at the screen.
- Fix Fixed: a busy database no longer shows an error at once. The console loads the page again, and shows the error only if the database stays busy.
- Fix Fixed: on the Playlists page, a Shift range now includes only the playlists that show.
- Fix Fixed: the screen page now tells you when a screen cannot open an http:// page on its own network. The screen page also tells you what to change, not to restart the screen.
- Fix Fixed: an http:// web page on your own network no longer shows as live on all screens. The web page panel now tells you which screens can show the page and what to change.
- Fix Fixed: a web page on your own network now shows No preview. It no longer shows a failed preview.
- Feature You can now choose the workspace that opens when you sign in. Use Settings → Your profile.
- Improvement Groups on Screens are now the groups you add screens to. New group adds a group to the list, even with no screens yet.
- Improvement Invoice reminder emails now include the invoice as a PDF and a link to pay it. You do not need to sign in to pay.
- Fix Fixed Approve and Reject buttons on Approvals for people who cannot approve. They now see who must approve the request.
- Fix Fixed new groups that did not show on Screens. You can now pick a new group when you add a screen.
- Fix Fixed warning alerts that showed as Info and did not show when you selected the Warning filter.
- Fix Fixed See where on a web page. The button now opens the list of playlists, layouts and screens that use the web page.
- Fix Fixed the animation presets in the design editor. When you pick a preset, the design plays the animation one time.
- Improvement The bulk bar on Screens fits on one row. Change content, Cast, Move to and Reboot stay on the bar. The other actions are under More.
- Improvement Dashboard, Schedules, Playlists, Files and Layouts are easier to read. Screens online turns red only when fewer than 90% of screens are online. Playlists show how many screens play each one. Remove this zone is now in the zone panel.
- Improvement On Layouts, screen readers now tell you which layout is open.
- Improvement When you save a card from a card link that we sent you, the card pays your open invoices. Your account then pays by card.
- Fix Fixed Start free trial when a field has an error. The cursor now goes to the first field that needs a change.
- Fix Fixed the Refresh icon on the list of new screens that wait to pair on Screens. The icon now spins only when you select Refresh.
- Fix Fixed the upload failure message in Files. The message now tells you why the upload failed and what to do. Files now refuses a file type that it cannot show, such as an HTML page, when you add the file. If you select the page behind the upload window, the upload continues.
- Fix Fixed End cast on the screen panel. A second press no longer shows an error. The button waits for the first press to finish.
- Fix Fixed the status on each screen in the Screens list. Select the status to see what it means. Before, it did nothing.
- Feature You can now set your plan to start when your free trial ends. We charge your saved card on that date and not before.
- Feature You can now choose which screens play when you have more screens than your plan pays for. On the Screens page, select Choose screens.
- Feature You can now pick tags from a list. Tag fields suggest the tags that your screens and files already use. Press Tab to complete a tag. A tag that no other item has shows as New. Bulk tag edit shows the tags that all or some selected screens have. You can remove each tag from all of them.
- Improvement The link editor now tells you when some screens show a picture of a live page. Those screens could not open the page in time.
- Improvement When your session ends, the sign-in window greets you by name and fills in your email. You can sign in with your password, a passkey, Google or Microsoft.
- Feature You can now add a browser screen in one step. Select Open the screen in a new tab. That tab becomes the screen, with no code to type. The dialog shows Connected when the screen is live. For a laptop, an iPad or a smart TV, copy the link or scan the QR code.
- Improvement New accounts no longer get an email that asks them to confirm their address. We send that email only when you need it: when you pick invoice billing, or when you invite a teammate. When you invite a teammate before you confirm your address, we send you the link. When you open it, we send the invite.
- Improvement The Add a browser screen dialog closes by itself when the screen connects.
- Fix Fixed search (⌘K). It now shows the names of the screens, files, playlists and templates that match.
- Fix Fixed links to a screen from search (⌘K), Alerts and Reliability. The link now opens the screen and scrolls the list to it.
- Feature You can now see the price before you pair a screen past your plan. People who manage billing add screens and pay in one step. Other people set the screen up and send an invoice to the person who pays. The screen starts to play when the invoice is paid.
- Feature You can now let Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant change, delete and restore every kind of item. The assistant can also edit schedule blocks and change many items in one step. Deleted items stay in the recycle bin for 30 days.
- Improvement The "New locations pay for themselves" setting is now in Settings → Billing. When it is off, locations do not show a payment switch.
- Improvement The partner console now shows your licenses as one pool. The Dashboard shows how many licenses you use, next to your customers and screens. The Customers page shows your trial licenses, bought licenses and demo screens in one place. The partner console now also works on a phone.
- Fix Fixed casts made with POST /v1/quick-posts that had no name. GET /v1/casts now shows the headline as contentName.
- Improvement Settings → Organization: a location shows its numbers on one line, and people from parent locations fold into one row. The page no longer scrolls past its end.
- Improvement Settings → Organization: a location with more than eight screens has Show all, which lists every screen in place.
- Improvement Settings → Organization: the location panel no longer has a content picker. Choose what screens play on the Screens page.
- Improvement The live view of a screen is smoother. High quality now shows about 10 pictures a second, up from 3. The remote control opens almost full screen, with its buttons in groups.
- Fix Fixed the alert for a screen whose content passed its end date. The alert now says the content expired. Before, it said that the screen had nothing to show.
- Improvement The Screens page opens 22% faster.
- Improvement The console opens 20% faster from its home address.
- Fix Fixed the Pay link on some invoices. The link opened a page that said the invoice was not found. The link now opens the invoice so you can pay it.
- Feature You can now move a location to a different place in your organization. Open the location and select More. Select Move this location to. Everything inside the location moves too.
- Feature You can now see a large organization on one chart. Long rows fold into a grid. Find a location by name, number or town. Select a location twice to show only that part. Use Only problems to see only locations with a problem.
- Fix Fixed delete for a location that has locations inside it. You can now move those locations up a level first, or delete them too.
- Improvement A new account now answers two short questions at first sign-in: how many screens, and how you found Brix. You can then ask for help to set up your screens.
- Improvement The Playlists page opens 4 times faster.
- Improvement The audit log opens 30 times faster.
- Improvement A new account now uses the time zone of the browser that signed up, not UTC.
- Fix Fixed: when you add locations from a spreadsheet, Brix now finds each town or city and keeps it. A town that Brix cannot find is named in the message, so you can set it in More settings.
- Feature You can now archive a customer who left, in the partner console. Archived customers leave your customer list. Their screens stop and no longer use licences, and nobody can sign in to them. You can restore an archived customer, or delete it permanently.
- Feature You can now choose the language of the emails your customers get. Go to Branding in the partner console. The languages are English, German, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish, French and Arabic. You can also write your own text for each email. One customer, or one person in Settings → Profile, can have a different language.
- Feature You can now post a message to screens with one API call (POST /v1/quick-posts). The call makes the message and shows it on the screens you choose. You can also find screens by name with GET /v1/screens?q=.
- Fix Fixed webhooks that did not send six of their events. Webhooks now tell you when a screen goes offline or comes back. They also tell you about approval requests and decisions, and when an emergency takeover starts or ends. The list of webhook events now shows the fields that each event sends.
- Fix Fixed the Test button on a webhook. The test delivery now has the same fields as a real event, with test set to true. The fields come from one of your screens when you have one. A test can now send any event the webhook subscribes to.
- Improvement Settings, reports and side pages are easier to read. Proof of Play, Reliability and the Audit log show the first rows and a Show more button. Reliability shows the screens with outages first. Training folds the long course lists. Less used actions are in a More menu. No setting or action was removed.
- Improvement The invoice list in Settings → Billing no longer shows voided invoices or invoices for $0. Each of our invoices shows the card that pays it, or "By invoice". The PO number shows only when you gave us one.
- Fix Fixed invites to an email address that has an account in another hosting region. You now see a clear message, and no account is made that the person cannot sign in to.
- Improvement Keep the TV on this input is now on by default, and Signage Sticks show the setting. A screen uses the workspace default until you change it.
- Improvement The TV history on the Health tab now shows if each TV reading was checked, seen or not checked.
- Fix Fixed false "TV on another input" warnings. If a screen cannot confirm the input, it says so and sends no alert.
- Improvement Settings, Workspace, Data residency now shows where your workspace records are stored, not only your media. If the two regions are different, the line names both.
- Fix Fixed Collect diagnostics. The screen sent its records, but the bundle did not appear in the list. Bundles now appear, with a picture of the screen and its recent health reports. Bundles are kept for 30 days.
- Fix Fixed the Get started cards on Screens after the welcome panel. The cards now count all of your starter designs and name the design that your first screen plays.
- Fix Fixed the Show me how steps for a browser tab. A step now tells you to select Create the screen link, and the step card no longer covers that button.
- Feature You can now filter the Screens list by tag. Each screen row shows its tags. Select one or more tags to see the screens that have any of them.
- Feature You can now add or remove tags on many screens at once. Select the screens and open Location and tags. Each screen keeps its other tags.
- Improvement A nested playlist row in the playlist editor now says Shuffled when that playlist shuffles its items.
- Fix Fixed a false "Low storage" warning on screens that use the Web Player in a browser tab. A browser cannot read disk or memory levels, so these screens now show no storage or memory warning.
- Feature You can now share a playlist from one Share dialog. Each location, role or person has its own access. A location can play the playlist, or also add its own content for a share of the time.
- Feature You can now see what needs your attention on the Playlists page. The list names locations that have no content yet, and location content that waits for your approval.
- Feature You can now open a playlist that another team shares with your location. The page shows what plays around your content. The page also shows how much time your location has.
- Fix Fixed labels in the design editor and the template forms that used British spelling. They now say Color and Center, as the rest of the CMS does.
- Fix Fixed location content that waits for approval. With Check their content before it airs on, a location's changes now go to the playlist owner's Approvals. Before, the content was held back and nobody could ask for approval.
- Fix Fixed the approval request window. It showed an empty Where list for location users. It now says who reviews the request.
- Feature You can now turn off recording of your own CMS sessions in Settings → Your profile → Session recording.
- Feature You can now add a customer that only your team manages, with no customer login. Or you can give the customer a login and choose their role. Admin is the default.
- Feature You can now sign in once as a partner on your own address and work in every customer workspace. Switch between customers from the workspace name in the sidebar.
- Feature You can now manage the people of each customer from the partner console. Add a person, change a role, send a password reset or remove a person.
- Feature You can now choose how emails to your customers are sent as a partner. Go to Email in the partner console and connect your own Resend account. A test email must arrive before the change starts. If the connection stops working, the emails come from the default address and you get a message to reconnect.
- Feature You can now send emails to your customers through your own Microsoft 365 as a partner. Go to Email in the partner console, select Connect Microsoft 365 and sign in with the mailbox to send from. You do not change DNS. If your organization needs an admin to approve the app, the console shows the link for your admin.
- Feature You can now send emails to your customers through your own Google Workspace as a partner. Go to Email in the partner console, select Connect Google Workspace and sign in with the account to send from.
- Feature You can now send emails to your customers through any SMTP server as a partner. Go to Email in the partner console and enter the server, port, user name and password. For Microsoft 365, use Connect Microsoft 365.
- Improvement Settings, Security now shows that your provider always has access to your workspace. Every visit is in your Activity log.
- Improvement Partner console, Email: each sending method now checks its connection with the provider and shows each check. Send a test email and confirm that it arrived before the method switches on. Our sending service is not available for new setups. Until you connect your own email, emails to your customers come from the neutral address.
- Improvement A new workspace now gets a short offer on the Screens page, not setup questions over the whole page. Select **Yes, set it up** to answer the questions. Select **No thanks** to start with a general set of designs.
- Improvement Partner console: emails to your customers show your product name. Replies go to your support email. The Email page shows both.
- Fix Fixed a partner-branded console showing our name. Sign-in, setup, the Help menu and the authenticator app entry show the partner's name.
- Fix Fixed password reset and email confirmation emails for partners with their own domain. The emails now show the partner name and open the partner domain.
- Fix Fixed a partner's customer seeing our name when they signed in on our console. The console now opens their partner's console, signed in. Billing, app previews and the welcome questions show no name of ours.
- Feature You can now start a new workspace from three tasks on the Screens page. Each task turns green when it is done.
- Feature You can now see a starter design on your first screen as soon as it connects.
- Feature You can now see which audit log actions came from Claude, ChatGPT or an API key.
- Improvement Settings > AI, API and MCP shows a connected assistant first. Its card shows its status, recent actions and example prompts.
- Fix Fixed a phone opening a new browser screen on itself. The phone now gives you a link and a QR code for your TV.
- Feature You can now pick a built-in role when you add a person. Every workspace has eight: Owner, Admin, Finance, Content Manager, Approver, Local Manager, Installer and Viewer. You can change what each role can do, except Owner, or copy one into a new role.
- Feature You can now make any box in a design open a web app full screen when somebody taps it. The web app has a Close bar and closes on its own when nobody touches the screen. Browser screens have the web app overlay now. Android and Windows players get it in the next player update.
- Feature You can now set up touch in the new Touch row of a screen. Choose when the screen goes back to the playlist. Choose the on-screen keyboard and the Back and Home buttons.
- Feature You can now set a playlist item to play only when somebody taps a button. The item stays out of the normal rotation.
- Feature You can now see in Proof of play how often people tap each button. Brix does not record what a visitor types.
- Feature You can now follow the new guide, Make a touch kiosk.
- Fix Fixed the end date on invoices. A yearly plan from 5 Oct 2026 now shows 4 Oct 2027, the last day of service. Each line now shows the plan, quantity, unit price and amount in separate columns.
- Feature You can now see when content is too heavy for a screen. After you assign content, the CMS names each screen that cannot play all of the content. The warning also shows in the layout editor.
- Fix Fixed a delete with no warning. When you delete a playlist that a schedule plays, the confirmation now names that schedule.
- Fix Fixed files that failed to store with no reason given. The screen panel now tells you why a file is not stored. The panel also tells you what sets the storage limit.
- Improvement Settings → Billing shows your card, billing address and invoice email in one list. Edit each one in its row.
- Feature You can now add a backup card in Settings → Billing. When your bank declines your card, we charge the backup card.
- Feature You can now bill some screens to a franchise or site in Settings → Billing. Pick screen groups, spaces or screens, and the payer adds a card from a link.
- Fix Fixed videos that did not process when you uploaded many large videos at the same time. Each video now waits for a free slot.
- Fix Fixed the message when your bank declines your card at the start of a plan. The message now gives the reason, and we make no invoice.
28 September
Show your menu from a Google Sheet. Prices show in your currency. Sold-out items get a line through.
12 September
Start from a designed template. Four designs use your Brand Kit colors, with the clock and the weather in place.
5 September
Sell Brix under your own brand. Set your product name, logo and colors in the partner console.
4 September
See when a TV is off. A screen turns amber when its TV is off or on another input.
1 September
Show one part of a web page. Name the part, such as a timetable, and Brix hides the rest.
- Feature You can now set up your workspace on one welcome page after you sign up. Give your organization, the kind of place and the number of screens. Your own designs show on a screen as you type. The page also shows the region that holds your data. The question "How did you hear about us?" moved from the sign-up form to this page.
- Improvement Claude and ChatGPT can search your audit log with less personal data. The results show who made each change by name. The results no longer include email addresses, IP addresses or browser details.
- Feature You can now find Brix in Claude's connector directory and connect it in a few clicks. In Claude, open Customize and Connectors. Search for Brix.
- Feature You can now give a connected app or an API key View only access to an area. When you connect Claude or ChatGPT, or create an API key, pick an area. Then pick View only or View and change. View only is the default.
- Improvement The API and MCP page and the AI page in Settings are now one page, AI, API and MCP. The page opens with the steps to connect Claude or ChatGPT, with Connected apps below them. The AI settings, API keys and the MCP config for other clients follow. Old links open the same section on the new page.
- Improvement When you delete a location, the people assigned there now move up to the parent location. They keep the same role. Before, they lost their access. If someone already has that access at the parent, Brix does not add it again. To delete a location, you must be able to give each of those roles at the parent yourself. People never move into another workspace.
- Improvement In Settings, Billing, the plan choice now shows the yearly and monthly prices side by side. Yearly shows the saving. The price changes as soon as you pick a period or change the number of screens. A summary shows the plan, the term and what you pay, with one button to start.
- Improvement On an agreed term, Settings, Billing now shows how many of your screens are in use. The page also shows the rate, the term dates and the date of the next invoice. You can turn auto-renew on or off with one switch. You can add an email address that gets every invoice. The renewal invoice shows in Invoices before we send it.
- Improvement Claude and ChatGPT now see fewer Brix tools. One tool checks the health of a screen. The tool shows why the screen shows its content and the likely cause of a problem. The tool also shows outages and TV history. One tool creates playlists, schedules, locations or celebration entries in bulk. Each action still needs the same permission as before.
- Feature You can now show your menu with the Menu Board app. The app reads a Google Sheet, a CSV or JSON file, or an API. Prices show in your currency. Sold-out items show with a line through, or you can hide them. Each board can show only the categories you choose.
- Feature You can now format Menu Board calories the way the US FDA menu labeling rule describes. Turn on Calorie labeling, US chain (FDA), in the app settings. Calories show as Cal next to each item, rounded, in the same size and color as the name. Ranges such as 350-500 are supported. The two nutrition statements show at the bottom of the board.
- Feature You can now add a note at the bottom of a Menu Board. Use it for a service charge and what it pays for. The note shows in the same size as the menu items.
- Feature You can now connect Claude and ChatGPT to Brix by signing in. Add the Brix MCP address as a custom connector in the app. On the Brix page that opens, pick the workspace, a location and the permissions. You do not need an API key. Connected assistants show in Settings, API and MCP, under Connected apps. You can revoke them there.
- Improvement Only an owner can deactivate, erase or remove an owner now. Also, a person who manages people cannot remove or deactivate someone who has more permissions than they have. In Settings, Organization, the Deactivate and Remove controls show why they are not available.
- Improvement API keys and connected apps cannot delete a workspace now. Only a signed-in person can delete a workspace, and that person must enter their password.
- Improvement The Share dialog now shows only the people in your own workspace. The dialog shows an email address only if you can see the user list. The API now shows AI activity, API keys, synced folders and recalled content only for locations you can access.
- Fix Fixed alert rules showing the full Microsoft Teams workflow URL or webhook address after you save it. The rule now shows only the start and the last characters. Anyone with the full URL can post to your channel. To change it, select Replace, or delete the address and paste the new one.
- Fix Fixed invites made with an API key sending no email. The new person now gets the email to set their password. The email shows your workspace name.
- Feature You can now send a new confirmation email from Settings, Your profile.
- Feature You can now add an iCal feed as an Event centers data source.
- Improvement On a phone, tabs at the bottom of the screen open Screens, Files, Playlists, Templates and the menu.
- Improvement You can now set how many people or events a Celebrations or Event Board box shows on one page.
- Improvement The pairing step and the screen settings now show when Standard hours turn the screen off. A new button keeps the screen on 24/7.
- Fix Fixed Celebrations boxes that showed sample people when the data source was a CSV file or a JSON feed. Fixed Event Board boxes that showed sample events when the data source was a Google Sheet or a CSV file.
- Fix Fixed the Android guide link in the setup steps. The link opened a page that did not exist.
- Fix Fixed the Features links in the role editor, the AI settings and Proof of Play. They now open Settings, Organization, Feature defaults.
- Fix Fixed Reset to defaults in Feature defaults. Features that you changed no longer come back when you reload the page.
- Fix Fixed the Add browser screen directions for a lost player link. They now name the correct button.
- Fix Fixed the Instagram Feed View setting. The second view now has the name Grid of 9 posts, which is what the screen shows.
- Fix Fixed the audit log retention in What we hold. The page said 7 years. We keep the audit log for 3 years, as the audit log page says.
- Fix Fixed the Screenshot button on a browser screen. A browser screen cannot take a picture of its content, so the button no longer shows.
- Fix Fixed the data source CSV template. The column names now match what an import reads, so the Type column is kept.
- Fix Fixed HR integration sources. You now enter the BambooHR or CharlieHR details when you add the source. The source keeps these details.
- Improvement On a phone, lists show as cards you can tap, and dialogs open from the bottom of the screen.
- Improvement On a phone, Quick Post keeps its Post button at the bottom of the screen.
- Improvement On a phone, a design opens as a quick-edit list. Change its words or swap a picture there.
- Improvement Single sign-on settings show one panel at a time for each connection. The button of the open panel shows as selected.
- Improvement The Provisioning panel for single sign-on now tells you what provisioning adds. People who leave are signed out at once.
- Improvement When you add an access rule for single sign-on, you can now choose any level of your organization.
- Fix Fixed Check failing on a new, empty access rule. Check now tests the finished rules and tells you what the other rules need.
- Feature You can now turn auto-renew on or off for an agreed term in Settings, Billing.
- Feature You can now pay your invoices by card automatically. Choose how you pay in Settings, Billing.
- Improvement The CMS opens faster. The sign-in page and your first page after sign-in load sooner.
- Improvement Pages in the sidebar open faster. The CMS starts to load a page when you point to its link.
- Improvement The Screens page loads faster when a workspace has many screens.
- Improvement Typing and dragging in the design editor are smoother when a design has many boxes.
- Improvement Large PSD files now import without freezing the page.
- Improvement The agreed-term card in Settings, Billing is shorter. It shows your screens, what you paid, your invoice and the date your term renews or ends.
- Fix Fixed the command palette sometimes showing the results of an earlier search.
- Fix Fixed portrait designs showing as landscape on the Designs page.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in page moving after it finished loading.
- Fix Fixed a video thumbnail that showed one flat color when the video starts on a blank card. The thumbnail now shows a frame from later in the video.
- Feature You can now search for a settings section. Open the search with Command-K or Control-K. Type sso, 2fa or invoices. Brix opens that section and marks it for you.
- Feature You can now turn on two-factor authentication for your partner console account. Go to Security, enter your password and scan the code with an authenticator app. In Team, you can also make two-factor authentication necessary for all your people.
- Feature You can now see files another workspace shared with you at the top of Files.
- Improvement The AI settings, the retention schedule, the data list and the encryption key show by default on Enterprise workspaces. A workspace that already uses one of them keeps it. On other plans, turn on the one you need in Settings, Features.
- Fix Fixed a screen that showed Downloading 88% for good. This happened when the screen had no room left for its files. The screen now shows Cache full. It keeps playing everything, and the files it cannot store play from the internet.
- Fix Fixed a fault that stopped you adding a passkey on some consoles. The passkey sign-in now works on every address you use for Brix.
- Fix Fixed the retention schedule for console recordings Brix already holds. A shorter window now deletes them sooner.
- Fix Fixed single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID refusing people because Entra did not confirm their email.
- Fix Fixed single sign-on for workspaces hosted in Europe.
- Fix Fixed domain verification for single sign-on when your DNS provider splits the TXT record into parts.
- Fix Fixed SCIM leaving a person signed in after your identity provider switched them off.
- Fix Fixed the email verification link showing Session expired when you were already signed in.
- Fix Fixed your first single sign-on taking you back to the sign-in page.
- Fix Fixed a bank payment for an invoice not marking the invoice as paid.
- Fix Fixed a screen showing the trial-ended message after we extended your trial.
- Feature You can now finish single sign-on setup yourself. The connection shows a checklist. Step one checks your email domains with one DNS record. Step two tests the sign-in, and you stay signed in while it runs.
- Feature You can now give people access at their own location from your identity provider. Set access rules on a single sign-on connection, for example a job title and a store number. The rules run each time a person signs in.
- Feature You can now give each location a Location ID and add regions and their stores from one spreadsheet.
- Feature You can now switch account and go to a location from the search (⌘K). Type an account name, a location name or a Location ID.
- Feature You can now connect your identity provider with SCIM. Okta or Microsoft Entra ID adds, moves and switches off people without a sign-in.
- Feature You can now assign Signage Sticks to locations from a spreadsheet before you install them. Each screen goes to its location when you plug it in.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in policy that needs single sign-on. The policy now waits for a connection that works. If you turn it on early, we hold the policy and start it after the first sign-in through your provider.
- Fix Fixed a way to lock yourself out. Set up an authenticator app or a passkey on your own account first. Then you can turn on two-factor authentication for everyone.
- Fix Fixed access for people who work at one location. People at one location can now add files, playlists and schedules. They also see the playlists that other teams share with them.
- Fix Fixed a sign-in dead end. Your workspace can need two-factor authentication before you set it up. You can now set it up on the sign-in page.
- Feature You can now send screen alerts to a Microsoft Teams channel.
- Improvement Location lists now have a search box and show each location under its region.
- Improvement A connected account can stop working, for example after a password change. The account now shows a Reconnect button, and you get a notice and an email. Sign in again and your screens show new posts.
- Fix Fixed the browser player restarting when the browser refused a tap on the fullscreen prompt. A tap on the prompt on a touch screen now enters fullscreen.
- Improvement An invoice from us now shows who sent it and who it bills. The invoice also shows the PO number and how it was paid.
- Improvement Your billing address is now on your account. Invoices from us use it.
- Feature You can now see your agreed billing term on the Billing page. When we set a custom term for you, the plan card shows it. You see the rate, the number of screens, the cost and the end date.
- Feature You can now pay an invoice from us by card. Open the invoice link we send you. The page shows the invoice, your PO number and a Pay button. You can also print the page or save it as a PDF.
- Fix Fixed a screen preview that showed a stretched picture of a video. This happened on a Fire TV when the video was a different shape from the screen. The preview now shows the video at its real shape. A note says the picture is the video only. The message that asked you to update the player app is gone.
- Fix Fixed a video that showed the warning Brix could not prepare this video for screens. Brix now prepares the video again on its own. The video plays as uploaded until that is done. You do not need to upload it again.
- Feature You can now close the page after a video upload finishes. Brix prepares the video for screens on its own servers. The library shows the progress.
- Feature You can now continue an upload that stopped. Open Upload again and choose the same file. The upload continues from the last part that arrived.
- Fix Fixed a video upload that stayed on Preparing for a long time. This happened when the browser tab was in the background.
- Fix Fixed a YouTube video that showed a sign-in page on the screen. The screen now shows a clear message. The alert tells you what to do.
- Fix Fixed a white or black blink at the end of a video that plays on its own and repeats. The video now repeats with no gap.
- Feature You can now type how long a cast lasts, or pick the time it ends. The quick choices stay: 15 minutes, 1 hour, the rest of today, or until you stop it. A line under the choices tells you when the cast ends.
- Fix Fixed the Support access setting not applying to your reseller. When your workspace asks support to get approval first, your reseller must now get approval too. When your workspace asks to be told, you now get an email when your reseller opens your workspace.
- Fix Fixed a gap where a signed-in session could add a passkey with no password check. The same gap let it turn on two-factor authentication. Brix now asks for your password before it adds a passkey or an authenticator app. If your account has no password, Brix asks you to sign in again.
- Feature You can now see the on-screen apps in a new look. Each app sits on a plain ground. Your brand color is a soft wash in one corner. Your logo is at the top left. A new app opens in the light theme. Open the app's Appearance panel to choose the dark theme, or to add the grid, dots or aurora.
- Feature You can now show one social post at a time. The social feeds show one post at a time by default. Each post fills the screen with its photo, and the next post appears after 15 seconds. Select List in the app settings to show a list of posts instead.
- Feature You can now set the size and position of a box in pixels. In the template editor, select a box and open the Size and position section. Select px to type the exact width, height, left and top in screen pixels. Select % to go back to a share of the screen. The editor remembers your choice.
- Improvement A Brix Template sizes the company name pill and the company name to your company name. A short name gets a snug pill and a long name a wide one.
- Improvement The Brand Kit background options are Brand wash, Plain, Brand color, Aurora, Dots and Grid. Brand wash is the default. The Wash strength slider sets how strong your brand color is.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app and template weather slots asking the weather service too often. Each screen now asks once an hour per location. The screen keeps that hour's forecast through playlist changes. When the service says a site asks too often, the screen waits instead of asking again. A venue with many screens keeps its weather.
- Fix Fixed the confirm-your-email link. The link now confirms your email only when you are signed in to the account it was sent for. If you are not signed in, the page asks you to sign in. Then open the link again.
- Feature You can now connect Google Business without a Google sign-in. Type the business name, pick it from the list, and the Google reviews app shows the rating and recent reviews.
- Improvement The layout editor now fits a tablet and a small laptop window. The canvas keeps its width. The zone settings move under the canvas, and the layout list and the editor take turns on a narrow window.
- Improvement The screen page now says when the player on a screen is older than the content it plays. The page names the player version the screen needs. Until the player updates, the screen shows the content without the parts an old player cannot draw.
- Improvement The Weather app in a small slot draws its icon in the text color, not the second brand color.
- Improvement The Cinema template shows the weather, a line and the time. The date is not in the design.
- Fix Fixed the close button in the Choose a starting layout window. The button sat on top of the 16:9 and 9:16 switch.
- Fix Fixed the Brand Kit logo in the layout editor. The logo drew outside its zone, under the canvas. The logo now fits inside the zone.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app in a small template slot or layout zone. The app showed Brix colors and "Screen location" instead of your Brand Kit and your town.
- Fix Fixed the template preview clock. The canvas now shows the time and the date the way your workspace is set. For example, 24-hour time and the day before the month.
- Fix Fixed a template with a full-screen media slot. The pills, the clock and the ticker drawn on top of the media are visible on the screen again.
- Fix Fixed a rare "Could not load your account" error. The error appeared when the connection dropped in the middle of a reply from Brix. The CMS now says that the connection failed and asks you to try again.
- Fix Fixed the icon for a template in Now playing and content lists. It is the pen, the same as Templates in the sidebar.
- Fix Fixed a template with a logo box in a workspace with no logo. The box now shows your company name instead of an empty space.
- Fix Fixed text in a template being smaller on the screen than in the preview. The clock in the Cinema template was half the size.
- Fix Fixed a screen missing a content change made in the seconds after another change. The screen now checks again after the first update lands.
- Feature You can now set a picture to show whole inside its box instead of filling the box. The designed templates use this for your logo, so a wide logo is never cropped.
- Feature You can now change the look of a Brix Template. Pick an accent, follow your Brand Kit or turn it off, and choose Flat, Boxes or Deep accent.
- Improvement A screen now says Content expired when a file's show-until date passes.
- Improvement The Weather app now fits a small zone or a template box. A tall box shows the town, the temperature, the conditions and the next three days. A wide box shows them on one line.
- Improvement Template thumbnails now show your company name and a preview of the weather in the design.
- Improvement In the layout editor, the Frame control is now called Zone background and each option says what it paints.
- Improvement The designed templates now use one typeface across the screen. The weather icon takes your second brand color, and the empty media area is a plain card.
- Improvement The designed templates now put the clock, the weather and your media straight on the background. Your brand color fades in from the top-left corner. A new Brand wash switch in the layout Look section turns the fade off.
- Improvement The four Brix Templates now show in the layout picker too. Pick one and it opens in the template editor, with your media, the clock and the weather.
- Improvement Templates now have a thumbnail. The screens page, the content pickers and a schedule block show the design. The picture includes the playlist, file or app in its slot. A template tile also shows the first picture of the playlist in its slot.
- Improvement Check content for a layout now plays a template in its part. The playlist, file or app in its slot plays too.
- Improvement The Weather app in a template preview now shows the real town. An app set to the screen's location uses the location of the last edited screen.
- Improvement Text on a screen is now cut at the edge instead of ending in three dots. The weather card shows a long town name on a second line.
- Improvement Temperature and wind units now follow the country of the workspace. A workspace that signed up with no country learns it from its screens.
- Improvement The Weather app now shows the town alone, without the region or country after it.
- Fix Fixed a PDF that showed an error instead of its pages on some screens.
- Fix Fixed the playlist settings on a small screen. All four settings now sit on one row.
- Fix Fixed the Brand Kit that a Brix staff member sees when they open a customer workspace. The workspace now shows the customer's colors, logo and name.
- Fix Fixed Check content for a layout. An item set to fill the whole screen now shows over the whole screen. The other zones hide.
- Fix Fixed the playlist setting Fill the whole screen. The setting now applies to all items in the playlist. Before, only an item set on its own filled the screen.
- Fix Fixed the full-screen preview of a template. A playlist, a file or an app placed in the template now plays in the preview.
- Feature You can now see when somebody switched a TV off, or to another input, and when it came back. Open the screen and select Health.
- Feature You can now set a playlist to fill the whole screen when the playlist plays in a layout. You can also set one item alone. Open Fills the screen at the top of the playlist, or open the item. The other zones hide while the content plays.
- Feature You can now start a layout from a ready-made design. Four designs use your Brand Kit colors and put the clock, the weather and a ticker in place. Pick your media and the layout is complete.
- Feature You can now turn on Brand look for a layout. The layout gets one background in your Brand Kit colors. Each zone can show a card, your brand color or a glass panel, and a zone can show your logo.
- Feature You can now put a file, a playlist or an app inside a template. Add a Content box and pick what plays in it.
- Feature You can now start from four designed templates at the top of the templates gallery. They use your Brand Kit colors, the clock and the weather, with a space for your video or playlist.
- Feature You can now show an hourly strip and a 5-day forecast in the Weather app. Each section has its own switch.
- Improvement The Weather app has a new look. The temperature is lighter, the sun glows, the stars sparkle and the moon shows its surface. Rain and snow now land on the cards.
- Fix Fixed a TV alert that kept its first wording. If the TV moves to another input, the alert now says so.
- Fix Fixed a Windows screen on an older player version that could not install its own update. The update now installs, and the screen updates itself from then on.
- Improvement You can now see whether a web page runs live on screens or shows as a picture.
- Fix Fixed a second sign-up with an address that already has a workspace. The form now says Sign in instead, and Brix does not create a second workspace.
- Fix Fixed the partner console opening a customer's workspace on the wrong address. The workspace now opens where that customer signs in.
- Fix Fixed plain http:// links to the console. These links now go to the secure https:// address.
- Fix Fixed a schedule still showing a filler you had permanently deleted under When nothing's on. The schedule now shows Not set.
- Fix Fixed a partner's own address showing our name and our prices. The sign-in page now shows only the partner's brand, and the loading text no longer names us.
- Fix Fixed videos and images linked over plain http inside a web page not playing on Android screens.
- Fix Fixed the options drawer. The remote now reaches every button below Reset pairing.
- Fix Fixed the pairing card naming the wrong address when a screen cannot reach its server.
- Fix Fixed a screen left on a test address staying on Cannot reach. The screen now returns to the normal address on its own.
- Feature You can now add the whole table from the field list, not only single cells. Select "every row" to add a list that repeats your design for each item.
- Feature You can now keep a Google Sheets data source private. Select how Brix reads the sheet. Connect your Google account and choose one spreadsheet. Or share the sheet with the Brix address shown on the screen. The "Anyone with the link" option stays. The screen now says that this option lets anyone with the link read the sheet.
- Feature You can now add a Google Sheet from the Connected accounts panel. Paste the sheet link, or select a spreadsheet from a connected Google account. The sheet then shows in your data sources.
- Feature You can now upload files from inside a playlist. Press Upload in the Files, apps and playlists panel. Each file you upload goes into the playlist, and into your library.
- Feature You can now change a file from inside a playlist. Select the item to open the panel. Change the name, the tags, the start date and the expiry date. You can also set how the file fills the screen.
- Improvement The Data sources page now shows the Data button. Press that button in the editor to put a field on a design.
- Improvement The line that tells you how to place fields now shows on each data source group. The line also shows on the Google Sheets panel. Before, it showed only at the top of the page.
- Improvement The text size box is now named Largest size. The text shrinks below this size when it does not fit the box. The screen now says so.
- Improvement A playlist item now shows when its file cannot play. The row says Expired, Paused, or the date the file starts.
- Improvement The playlist editor now gives more room to your content. Check content and Share moved to the top bar. The Files, apps and playlists panel now runs the full height of the page.
- Fix Fixed a problem that showed the trial-ended message on a screen while the free trial was still running.
- Fix Fixed dragging a file from the panel into a playlist. Release the file away from the playlist to cancel. The file no longer goes into the playlist when you change your mind.
- Fix Fixed the position of the file image while you drag it. The image now stays under the pointer.
- Fix Fixed the "Fills the screen" panel in a playlist. The panel now starts closed, and the closed panel still shows the value.
- Fix Fixed apps that showed the default blue instead of your Brand Kit colors. The clock, the ticker apps and the RSS panel now use your brand color. They use it on the screen and in every preview. The app background color follows your brand color.
- Fix Fixed a data source that showed under the wrong heading. A Google Sheet added under Point of sale now stays there.
- Fix Fixed a Google Sheet that gave only a name and an occasion. Every column of the sheet is now available, for example category, price and availability.
- Fix Fixed a field list that offered only two columns of a row. A row with a price offered its name and price, and hid the rest. Every column is now in the list.
- Fix Fixed a group that you could not take apart. Select a group. Press Ungroup. The layers stay where they are on the design.
- Fix Fixed a field list that showed the sheet name and the column headings as if they were data. The list now shows your rows only.
- Fix Fixed the instruction for a Google Sheets data source. The screen named an address that does not exist, so the sheet never loaded. The screen now shows the sharing steps that work.
- Fix Fixed clicking a layer that is inside a group. Select the layer on the design and edit it. Before, you had to find it in the Layers list.
- Fix Fixed the Layers list showing tag text such as {{rows.0.name}}. The list now shows the words on the design, for example Hot Dog.
- Fix Fixed the wrong workspace name on a design when you are signed in to more than one account. Brix now uses the account you are in.
- Fix Fixed selecting a single layer on a design that came from a template. Select the layer on the design. Before, Brix selected the whole group.
- Fix Fixed the wrong company name on a design after you sign in to a different account. Brix now reads the workspace name from the server on every load.
- Fix Fixed clicking a layer inside a group. The layer stays selected. Before, the group took the selection back.
- Fix Fixed the YouTube player controls showing over your video. The control bar, the title and the share buttons no longer appear. Before, a screen with a mouse or a touch panel brought them back.
- Fix Fixed the YouTube Live app showing the full control bar over a broadcast. The broadcast now plays with no controls, the same as the YouTube app.
- Fix Fixed an older YouTube playlist app that did not start. The playlist now plays on a loop with the sound off. The screen no longer waits on a play button. A single video link in that app now plays, instead of a blank panel.
- Fix Fixed a screen paused for billing. The row now reads Trial ended, not Out of sync.
- Fix Fixed a wrong Problem note on a paused screen. The note no longer says the content is empty.
- Fix Fixed the trial-ended button. The button says Start subscription if you never paid.
- Fix Fixed the screen card on a partner account. The card names the end of your free trial.
- Fix Fixed a false content alert on a screen paused for billing. The alert clears by itself.
- Fix Fixed the split-flap clock ignoring the Location you set. The board now shows the time in that place. Before, it showed the time where the screen is.
- Fix Fixed the split-flap clock caption naming the wrong time zone. The caption now names the zone the board counts in.
- Fix Fixed a countdown with no date counting down to 31 December 2026. The app now asks you to set a date.
- Fix Fixed opening hours that cross midnight. A venue that closes at 2 AM now reads OPEN at 1 AM. Before, it read CLOSED.
- Fix Fixed unreadable opening hours showing an invented week. Brix showed Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 as if you set it.
- Fix Fixed the Google Sheets board waiting on "Loading" forever. The board now tells you what to connect when the sheet or the account is absent.
- Fix Fixed the Agenda app showing an invented conference program when your data source holds no rows. The app now shows an empty state.
- Fix Fixed the YouTube app leaving the screen black when your channel rule matches no video. The screen now says so.
- Fix Fixed RSS 1.0 and RDF feeds reading as empty. The articles now show. Before, the feed reported success with no articles.
- Fix Fixed an RSS panel staying on the first article after the screen starts from its saved copy. The panel now rotates.
- Fix Fixed the RSS panel ignoring your Brand Kit colors.
- Fix Fixed the "Show item image" and "Style" controls on the RSS app. The controls now change the panel.
- Fix Fixed the weather preview showing San Francisco data under your own city name when the forecast cannot load. The preview now says the weather is unavailable.
- Fix Fixed the Celebrations app showing the top of your list under "Today". The app now shows the people whose day it is.
- Fix Fixed text on a portrait design rendering at about half the size you set.
- Fix Fixed a price with the odometer effect running off the edge of a portrait screen.
- Fix Fixed countdown digits and split prices that could not be read on a brand-colored fill.
- Fix Fixed a pricing card made from a template painting the default blue instead of your surface color.
- Fix Fixed a photo overlay made from a template rendering fully transparent. The text on it can now be read.
- Fix Fixed text disappearing when you make a design from a web page. Small labels, dates and status lines now come across.
- Fix Fixed colors from a web page arriving as near-black text and blue shapes. The design now keeps the colors you see.
- Fix Fixed 63 templates in the gallery showing "Unknown archetype:" instead of the design.
- Fix Fixed repeating calendar events that never blocked a booking slot. A weekly meeting now blocks its time.
- Fix Fixed repeating calendar events that never reached a screen.
- Fix Fixed a calendar feed showing example events instead of your own.
- Fix Fixed a sheet of work anniversaries reading as birthdays.
- Fix Fixed busy time from a subscribed calendar going missing when the calendar holds more than ten busy periods.
- Fix Fixed one calendar that Brix cannot read stopping every other calendar on the same Google account.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template set to "Specific screens" starting on every screen in the workspace.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template reaching only some of the screens it names.
- Fix Fixed the CSV and JSON upload on the Data sources page. The file now uploads. Before, the source held no rows.
- Fix Fixed a private Google Sheet source that no app could use.
- Fix Fixed saving a data source that uses a token address. The save now works. Before, it failed with an error.
- Fix Fixed a data source that failed to sync still reading "Connected".
- Fix Fixed the app preview freezing on the last picture when you change a value back.
- Fix Fixed the approval list hiding edits made inside a group. The list now shows every change.
- Fix Fixed RS232 templates from another part of your hierarchy showing in the list.
- Fix Fixed a bulk import of org units reporting success for a town it did not store. The import now names each town it skipped.
- Fix Fixed every save failing on a partner console that uses its own web address.
- Fix Fixed a clock that stops when the Location holds a "/" but is not a real time zone. The clock now falls back to the zone of the screen.
- Fix Fixed the BI Dashboard app refusing a Grafana public dashboard, a Grafana snapshot and a Tableau share link. These now show.
- Fix Fixed the BI Dashboard app covering a slow dashboard with a "did not load" card. The card now shows only when the dashboard blocks the screen.
- Fix Fixed the Date app counting the wrong day of the year. The count was wrong for one hour each day around a clock change.
- Fix Fixed an article time such as "2 hours ago" freezing at the time the screen loaded the feed. The time now counts up.
- Fix Fixed an article photo dropped because the link holds a query string.
- Fix Fixed HTML tags showing in an article summary.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template that you can save with an empty headline. The headline is now needed.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template that keeps a content pointer Brix cannot use. The screen no longer dead-ends at the trigger.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template scoped to a part of your hierarchy that does not exist.
- Fix Fixed an RS232 command that expands to no bytes passing the check when it ends with a line break.
- Fix Fixed the "Show item image" and "Style" controls on the RSS app writing settings the screen never read.
- Fix Fixed the YouTube channel panel reading "1 videos match those words".
- Fix Fixed changing a master template to an engine template deleting your design with no warning. Brix now asks first.
- Fix Fixed the activity list hiding up to 99 events when it reaches its limit.
- Fix Fixed the glare effect staying invisible when the steam effect is also on.
- Fix Fixed a ticker cutting a word in half on a screen set to reduced motion.
- Fix Fixed a wait-times board reading "Closed min" for a closed service.
- Fix Fixed a message ticker leaving a blank gap and jumping when the messages are short.
- Fix Fixed the neon effect canceling the shine on a price and freezing its color.
- Fix Fixed a CSV data source whose rows you could not bind to a list.
- Fix Fixed a Google Sheets link to a second tab reading the first tab on every sync.
- Fix Fixed a photo library larger than about 800 images where the older photos never converted.
- Fix Fixed an app bound to a sheet showing celebration entries instead of your own columns.
- Fix Fixed an emergency template that reaches fewer screens than it names.
- Fix Fixed a screen that keeps painting a data feed after you delete it.
- Fix Fixed the Add source button failing with an error for an editor who works in one branch.
- Fix Fixed the Google Sheets quick add pointing you to a Sync button that is not there. The sheet now syncs when you add it.
- Fix Fixed the record count on a data source reading zero for a source that holds rows.
- Fix Fixed a PDF you page by hand not downloading to the screen in advance.
- Fix Fixed the wind speed on the weather preview reading in miles when the screen is set to Celsius. The preview now reads in kilometres, the same as the screen.
- Fix Fixed a design with more than one scene where a tap could not reach the other scenes.
- Feature You can now add a card from a link that Brix support sends you. The link does not need a sign-in. Use it during a free trial to keep your screens playing when the trial ends.
- Feature You can now choose which region holds a customer's data when you add them. Your own region is the default.
- Feature You can now buy your screen licences in the partner console. The price is $6 for each screen for a year.
- Improvement The partner console now shows the exact DNS record to add for your own web address. The record shows the type, the name and the value.
- Fix Fixed a screen that showed a message instead of a pairing code after you deleted it. The screen now shows a pairing code, so you can pair it again.
- Fix Fixed the link for a browser screen on a partner console. The link now uses the address of that console.
- Fix Fixed the setup walkthrough staying on top of a page it does not teach. The walkthrough card now hides on those pages. The banner at the top stays and shows Paused. Select Resume to continue. A close button is now on the banner and on the walkthrough card.
- Fix Fixed a partner hostname with an accented letter staying on Waiting for DNS. Brix now reads the hostname in the form that DNS uses.
- Fix Fixed a partner hostname that showed as live before pages could load on it. The hostname now goes live only when it serves.
- Improvement A screen keeps playing what it has if it cannot reach us or if a wrong backend answers. The screen returns to a pairing code only when Brix proves that you removed it.
- Improvement Brix no longer emails you about screen health on its own. You get email only for the alerts you set up under Alerts.
- Improvement Partner sign-in now uses an email address and a password. The Google and Microsoft buttons are hidden on a partner console.
- Fix Fixed connecting a Google account. Google Calendar, Google Sheets and Google Business now finish connecting, instead of waiting for ever.
- Fix Fixed a partner console showing the Brix name instead of your own. Your product name, logo and colors now appear on your own address.
- Fix Fixed the Public holidays app counting backwards. The app showed "in -1 days" for a holiday in the past. The app now shows the next holiday that is still to come.
- Fix Fixed a playlist editor that said "Live now" about a playlist past its expiry date. The editor now says the playlist ended, and that screens which show it are blank. Clear the expiry date to start the playlist again.
- Fix Fixed a reseller web address that showed the Brix name before Cloudflare issued its certificate. The address now shows a neutral name until the address is live.
- Feature You can now set the country for tax on your invoices. Choose it when you sign up, or add it later in Settings → Billing → Billing address. US and Canadian customers also enter a state or province and a postal code.
- Feature You can now reduce the number of screens on a paid plan yourself. The change takes effect when your plan renews. Until then your plan stays as it is, and Brix refunds nothing and charges nothing. You can cancel the change at any time before the renewal.
- Feature You can now get an email 30 days before a yearly plan renews. The email shows the date, the number of screens and the amount. You also get an email when a card on your account is about to expire. Both emails go to the workspace owners and the billing contact.
- Feature You can now add a customer from your partner console. They get their own workspace and an email to set a password.
- Feature You can now put a sign-up link on your website. A customer who uses it creates their own workspace under your brand.
- Feature You can now upload your logo in the partner console. Before, you had to give a link to an image you host.
- Improvement The screen preview shows a new frame sooner. The CMS no longer reloads the full screen list each time a player sends a picture.
- Improvement The screen preview loads each captured frame once. Before, it loaded every frame twice.
- Improvement Screen thumbnails and preview frames load faster. The server now runs its checks for a frame at the same time, not one after another.
- Improvement A layout with nothing to play in any part now shows your standby content. Before, it showed an error card in every part.
- Improvement The Google Sheets app now asks you to choose a spreadsheet. Brix gets access to that one file only, and to nothing else in the account.
- Fix Fixed one part of a layout showing "Content unavailable" while Brix reported the screen as healthy. Brix now names the part that has nothing to play.
- Fix Fixed a screen that plays nothing because a show-until date is in the past. Brix now names the date, instead of sending you to look through the files.
- Fix Fixed a Google Sheet that is not shared. Brix now tells you to share it, instead of showing an error code.
- Fix Fixed the error a data source shows when the fault is in its own settings. Brix no longer reports it as a Brix problem.
- Feature You can now choose where Brix stores your workspace's data when you sign up. Pick Australia and New Zealand, Europe or North America. Brix keeps your screens, content and account records in that region.
- Feature You can now keep a Brix folder in step with a OneDrive or SharePoint folder. Sign in with your Microsoft work account and pick the folder. New and changed files update in Brix by themselves.
- Feature You can now sell Brix under your own brand. Set your product name, logo and colors in a partner console, and manage every customer from there.
- Feature You can now try the partner program for 7 days with 5 licences. Those screens carry no watermark, so a real screen can go on a client wall before you buy a pool.
- Feature You can now point your own hostname at the console. Add one CNAME record and the console runs on your address.
- Improvement The words in the CMS now follow the Brix writing standard. Every label, message and training module has short sentences, no contractions, and one name for each thing.
- Improvement Files, Web pages and Layouts are now the names in the sidebar, the page titles and the training. Every page says workspace, not Space, and screen, not display.
- Improvement Email now carries the name of the product you sell, not ours. Invitations, password resets, alerts and deletion warnings all follow your brand.
- Improvement The player app for partners carries no Brix name. The app name, the pairing screen and the network announcements all stay neutral until a screen joins an account.
- Fix Fixed a delete of a shared media file or app that gave no warning. Brix now refuses the delete while another workspace can still play the file or app.
- Fix Fixed thumbnails reloading from scratch every time you opened Brix. Pictures you have already seen now come straight from your browser. The first screen of a grid also loads all at once, not a few at a time.
- Feature You can now see when a TV is off, or on a different HDMI input. The screen gets an amber warning and an alert. The player is healthy; only the TV is dark.
- Feature You can now reduce the number of screens on your plan while your trial runs. Set the plan to the screens you use. Brix charges nothing until the trial ends.
- Improvement The CMS no longer loads third-party analytics or session recording, so the privacy prompt is gone. Your sign-in cookie is now the only cookie the CMS sets.
- Improvement The off-hours setting now tells you the truth on a screen that can switch the TV's power. The TV always follows the hours. To keep a TV on around the clock, set the hours to "Always on".
- Improvement The screen hours editor now shows all seven days at once. Each day has a "Copy to all" button. The extra "How detailed?" question is gone.
- Improvement A screen that can switch the TV off is no longer asked what to do outside its hours. The page states it: the TV goes off, and comes back on with the hours.
- Improvement The screen hours editor is easier to read. Each day is one line. Sound and brightness sit behind an icon on the day, not a line of text under it.
- Improvement Brix alerts you when a screen keeps losing its connection. You do not need to set up a rule first.
- Improvement Brix now says why a screen lost its connection. Brix names weak Wi-Fi, a bad Wi-Fi link, or an unplugged cable.
- Fix Fixed the setting for what a screen does outside its hours. Brix kept your choice, but the screen page always showed "Keep the screen awake" when you came back.
- Fix Fixed a screen you switch off yourself reporting as a fault. Brix now knows that you turned the screen off, and says so instead of warning you.
- Fix Fixed the screen page calling a scheduled dark screen a fault. A screen outside its hours now reads "Off" and names the time it comes back on.
- Fix Fixed the time a screen turns back on not saying am or pm.
- Fix Fixed the standard screen hours reading "Mon-Fri 6:30 to 22:00". The standard hours are 6:00 am to 11:00 pm, every day.
- Fix Fixed the time on a screen that is off having a space before am or pm.
- Fix Fixed rotating a JPEG or PNG file. The Rotate button always failed with 'The image service did not respond'. The button now turns the picture.
- Fix Fixed duplicating a playlist with eight or more items. The copy failed with 'Something went wrong on our side'.
- Feature You can now target a playlist item at screen tags. Each screen plays only the items that match it.
- Feature You can now add custom fields to a screen. Use them in a web link address so one link serves every screen.
- Feature You can now save a one-time code for a web link sign-in. Brix enters the code when it opens the page.
- Feature You can now set the volume, the brightness and the mute state for each block of opening hours.
- Feature You can now set how a whole playlist fills the screen. Open the playlist and select "Playback". The setting applies to every item in it. The setting also applies to a part of a layout that plays the playlist.
- Feature You can now use "Check content" on a layout. Open the layout and select "Check content". Brix draws each part at the size it has on the screen. Brix also names how each part fills its space.
- Feature You can now use "Blur fill" for a video. The screen fills the empty space with a blurred copy of the video.
- Improvement Brix now sends a player update to your screens in stages over two weeks. A screen that is a long way behind gets the update sooner.
- Improvement Brix now refuses content that cannot play. An empty playlist cannot go on a screen. Nor can a schedule with no time blocks and no gap content. A schedule that turns the screens off still goes on.
- Improvement "Why is this playing" now explains a schedule. The panel names the content that plays now. The panel also reports when no time block covers this time. The panel tells you when the schedule turns the screen off on purpose.
- Improvement Photographs now upload at a size your screens can show. They download faster and use less storage.
- Improvement A password reset link now lasts 7 days. You no longer need to open your email straight away.
- Fix Fixed a video playing the wrong way up, or too small, on a screen you turn. The video now fills its space and matches the rest of the screen.
- Fix Fixed the missing thumbnail on a video after you rotate it.
- Fix Fixed a screen keeping the old direction of a file you turn a full circle. The screen now gets the new file each time you turn it.
- Fix Fixed the picture of a file in Brix staying in the old direction after you turn it. The picture now changes at once.
- Fix Fixed an error when an account that pays by invoice buys screen licenses. Brix now puts the amount on the invoice.
- Fix Fixed Brix accepting a bad date on a playlist or a schedule. Brix now refuses the date. The message gives the format.
- Fix Fixed Brix accepting a bad time zone on a screen. Brix now refuses the time zone.
- Fix Fixed a schedule showing the standby screen when its content is inactive or out of date. The schedule now plays its fallback content.
- Fix Fixed a file staying on "Optimizing for smooth playback" after a background job stopped.
- Fix Fixed a command to a screen being lost when the server was busy.
- Fix Fixed an offline alert for a screen that Brix turned off, on the night the clocks change.
- Fix Fixed the sign-in page telling you to use a password in a workspace that needs single sign-on.
- Fix Fixed large photos not finishing their download to a screen on a slow network.
- Fix Fixed a screen that plays from the internet showing a download that never finished.
- Fix Fixed the health check calling a screen blank when that screen plays from the internet.
- Fix Fixed an empty Screens page for some people in an account that has more than one site. The sites and their screens now appear for everyone who can see the account.
- Fix Fixed a site and its screens disappearing when you move the site to the top level.
- Feature You can now point the YouTube app at a channel instead of one video. Add the channel address and a few words from the video title. Your screen plays the newest video that matches, and picks up each new one on its own.
- Feature You can now set how a file fills the screen on the file itself. Open Media and select the file. Use "How it fills the screen". The setting applies everywhere the file plays.
- Feature You can now override how one playlist item fills the screen. Select the item in the playlist editor. Choose "Same as the file" to remove the override.
- Feature You can now check a layout. Open the playlist and select Check content. Brix draws each part at the size and position it has on the screen.
- Feature You can now change how one playlist item fills the screen from the playlist. Point at the item and select the fill button.
- Fix Fixed the cast window on a narrow browser window. The tabs, the search box and the buttons were cut off, and you had to scroll sideways to reach them.
- Fix Fixed content in a layout always showing black bars. Each part of a layout now uses the file's own setting.
- Fix Fixed the preview of a layout. Each part now shows content the same way the screen does. Before, the preview filled each part and the screen kept the black bars.
- Feature You can now show only one part of a web page on a screen. Name the part you want, such as a class timetable, and Brix hides the rest of the page. The menu, the banner and any pop-up do not reach the screen.
- Feature You can now change a screen's Wi-Fi from the screen panel. Open the Player row to find the Wi-Fi section. The section shows the network the screen uses now, with the button to change it.
- Feature You can now add a web page and set how it renders from the API and from AI tools. An agent can crop the page to one part, set its refresh, and re-render it.
- Improvement You can now skip a training step that asks you to make something you already have.
- Improvement A training section that you start yourself now ends when you finish it. Brix then offers the next section or the level above.
- Improvement Videos uploaded at very high quality are now optimized automatically so they play smoothly on every screen. They keep playing as they are until the lighter version is ready.
- Improvement Layouts now show a preview picture. The picture shows each zone with the content it plays.
- Improvement When you claim a screen you paired before, Brix names the screen it used to be. Brix also fills in that name for you.
- Fix Fixed a training step that pointed at a control behind an open window.
- Fix Fixed the low-memory warning so it appears only when low memory affects playback. A screen that plays correctly does not show a warning.
- Fix Fixed the back button in a playlist that you open from another playlist. The back button now goes up one level. Before, it always went to the playlist list.
- Fix Fixed the preview pictures for a playlist that contains other playlists. The playlist now shows pictures of the content it plays.
28 August
Cast from your content. Pick the screens, and your content plays there for a set time.
17 August
Trigger an emergency yourself. Pick a ready message and the screens, and every screen shows it.
16 August
Check a playlist before it plays. Step through each item in a frame the shape of your screen.
13 August
Move files into folders. Drag the files onto a folder, or select Move to.
30 August
See why a screen went down. Point at Offline to see the likely cause.
- Fix Fixed screens reporting errors for a few seconds when the Brix database had a short fault. Brix now retries and carries on.
- Feature You can now see how many pages or slides a document has in Files.
- Feature You can now see why each screen went down. Open a screen and look under Connection for every outage in the last 30 days with its cause.
- Feature You can now open Settings, Reliability. The page shows how often each screen went down in the last 30 days and the most common cause.
- Feature You can now ask Brix to send one message when a screen comes back, with the cause. Turn it on in the alert rule.
- Feature You can now get one alert a week when a screen loses its connection many times. Add the Wi-Fi unstable trigger to an alert rule.
- Feature You can now see the likely cause when you point at an Offline screen in the list. Brix says what happened last time.
- Fix Fixed PowerPoint decks that showed error cards on screens instead of their slides.
- Fix Fixed the library calling a document ready when screens could never show it. The library now says what to fix.
- Fix Fixed the playlist item details panel saying a file is not used when it is in that playlist.
- Feature You can now give an API key permission to read and change alert rules. The permission was always checked, but no checkbox existed, so only a full-access key could reach alert rules.
- Feature You can now send and read your workspace support requests through the API and MCP. The API catalog hid the "Send message" dialog, because the catalog recorded it as a public web form. The dialog is not a public form. The dialog needs a permission, and the messages stay inside your workspace.
- Improvement Screen status now updates in real time. Clear a dialog or free storage, and the screens list turns green within a second. The list no longer waits for the next refresh.
- Improvement Brix now reports a screen offline within about 40 seconds of losing it. This includes screens on networks that block WebSockets.
- Improvement Brix now reports a screen offline about 15 seconds after it loses power or network. The check used to take 25 to 40 seconds.
- Improvement A screen on an unstable network no longer flips between online and offline every few minutes. Brix waits two minutes before it reports an outage on a link that dropped three times in ten minutes.
- Fix Fixed schedules showing a blank gray box instead of a picture when you pick what a screen plays. A schedule now previews the content its dayparts play, the same way a playlist does.
- Fix Fixed a blank page after you create an account. The Get started page now opens for a new signup.
- Fix Fixed Settings, Training saying you finished the tour after you skipped it. The page no longer counts modules you did not see.
- Fix Fixed a setup lesson changing your workspace when you played it again. Your industry, plan type and brand name stay as you set them.
- Fix Fixed the help button on Proof of play and Audit log saying that no course covers the page. The button now opens the course for that page.
- Fix Fixed screens that turn off with their operating hours showing as offline. A screen now says that it is off and when it opens next. Uptime no longer counts the hours you turned a screen off.
- Fix Fixed training lessons that described the old screens page, cast picker and billing steps. Each lesson now matches what you see.
- Fix Fixed downloads through the API and MCP. A request for a file, a poster, a screenshot or an invoice PDF returned damaged content. Files now come back whole.
- Fix Fixed the API route list stopping at 200 routes with no way to see the rest. The list now pages, so a tool can read the whole API.
- Fix Fixed restoring a deleted screen from the recycle bin over MCP. The tool refused screens, although the recycle bin listed them.
- Fix Fixed screens showing “Not responding” while they were connected. A screen that answers Brix over its live connection now stays green even if a check-in report is late.
- Fix Fixed the screens list reporting a screen offline while the screen still answered Brix over its live connection. The list now shows the last time each screen answered, to the second.
- Fix Fixed Brix counting one screen outage many times. Brix recorded a screen that lost power as offline again every 15 seconds until it came back. That inflated its outage count and repeated its alerts.
- Fix Fixed the latest-picture request for a screen refusing API keys. The API and MCP list the request, but only a browser session could use it. An API key now gets the picture.
- Fix Fixed the MCP screen capture tool naming a picture that no request could fetch. The tool returned a storage key. The tool now returns the address that gives you the picture.
- Fix Fixed Windows screens that kept playing an old player after an update. A Windows screen now switches to the new player as soon as it installs. Before, the new player waited for the next restart.
- Fix Fixed the Esc key doing nothing on a Windows screen. Press Esc to open the settings panel. Press Esc again to close it.
- Fix Fixed a Windows screen that hid Task Manager and the Start menu the moment you opened them. The player now stays behind what you open until you leave the keyboard for a minute.
- Fix Fixed the mouse pointer showing over an app on a Windows screen. The pointer now stays hidden over apps, the same as over pictures and video.
- Fix Fixed five clicks doing nothing while an app was on screen. Five clicks over an app now open the settings panel. On a touch screen, five taps in the top-right corner do the same.
- Fix Fixed the Days Since app showing “days since days since” when you typed the app name in the label. The caption now shows your words once.
- Feature You can now cast from your content. Open a media file, a playlist or an app and select Cast. Brix asks which screens to use and puts the content on them for a set time.
- Feature You can now cast a schedule, an app or a design. Before, you could only cast a playlist or a file.
- Feature You can now see every cast that runs. The Screens page shows a Casts button while a cast runs. Select it to stop a cast.
- Improvement Change content is now the main button on the screens list, the screen cards and the screen panel. Cast is a smaller button beside it, and it shows how long the cast runs.
- Fix Fixed the time zone that a screen uses for its operating hours. A time zone you set on a screen now applies. Before, the location's time zone could replace it.
- Fix Fixed slow page loads in the CMS and slow updates on screens.
- Fix Fixed alerts that said a screen was stuck when it played correctly.
- Fix Fixed a password reset link that could be used twice at the same time.
- Fix Fixed Windows screens that saved no media. A Windows screen now saves its media on the screen and plays from the saved copy. The screen starts faster and keeps playing if the network drops.
- Fix Fixed the wrong player version on Windows, which made an update ask again after it applied.
- Fix Fixed Windows players that came back in a small window after a restart, not full-screen kiosk.
- Fix Fixed the screen list hiding the actions menu. The list view is the default again. The grid cards have the same menu. You can delete, deactivate or replace a screen from either view.
- Fix Fixed the pairing dialog not telling you the cost. A new screen that is more than your plan now shows the rate. The dialog says that Brix adds the screen to your next invoice.
- Fix Fixed apps that did not show on Windows screens. The screen showed an error card instead of the app. Only the clock was not affected.
- Fix Fixed RSS apps that did not show on any screen. An RSS app now loads and shows its feed.
- Fix Fixed pages on your own network that did not play. A page on your network now plays if the address starts with https.
- Fix Fixed the immediate charge for a screen added in the middle of a billing cycle. The cost now goes on your next invoice.
- Fix Fixed the screenshot window showing the newest picture when you select an older one. The picture you select now opens.
- Fix Fixed a live mirror that slowed down and stopped while you watched it. A mirror now stays at full speed for as long as you watch.
- Fix Fixed the guided tour pointing at the wrong buttons in the screenshot window. The tour no longer describes a delete option that does not exist.
- Fix Fixed a message that said a screen had never reported. Brix now says when the details fail to load.
- Fix Fixed Windows screens that went dark for minutes after an update. The player no longer repeats a finished install.
- Feature You can now skip one section of the guided setup and continue with the rest.
- Feature You can now give new members a short tour of the features. The tour starts when they sign in for the first time.
- Feature You can now save a Wi-Fi network on an Amazon Signage Stick from the CMS. Set it on one screen in Settings, or on many screens at one time from the screens list. The screen keeps the network and joins it when the network is in range.
- Feature You can now set the time zone of an Amazon Signage Stick. The time zone of the screen also sets the clock of the screen. Settings shows the time zone that the screen reports.
- Feature You can now repair a screen from the What might be wrong panel. The panel shows the steps in order. The first step causes the least interruption.
- Feature You can now correct a person's name. Open Settings → Organization → People. Select the person. Edit the name at the top of the panel. Before, a name was set only when you invited the person.
- Fix Fixed the guided setup. Skip now ends it. Before, the setup started again at the first module.
- Fix Fixed the name of the Amazon Signage Stick in the guided setup.
- Fix Fixed media start and end dates that came from a previous CMS. Some media was hidden as expired too early. The dates now apply correctly.
- Fix Fixed an issue where a paid account could see upgrade banners meant for trial accounts.
- Fix Fixed a delay when a screen played a new PDF document for the first time. The pages are now prepared when you add the document.
- Fix Fixed the Blank screen status. A screen that plays one dark item in a normal rotation no longer shows as blank.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app for screens with no location set. The screen now uses its own known location. Before, the app could show an error.
- Fix Fixed screenshots that the player captured because the screen could not. The screenshot now tells you that video and messages do not show in it.
- Fix Fixed the Set Wi-Fi command. The command now always gives an answer. Before, the command could stay at Sent.
- Fix Fixed screens that could wait forever after you entered a pair code. The screen now connects, even if the player restarts during pairing.
- Fix Fixed slides that showed only in part on a screen with a slow or unreliable network. The screen now waits until all of the picture is ready.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview for a portrait screen whose player photographs its whole screen area. The preview made the picture too narrow. The preview now shows the picture at its true shape. The preview also tells you that the black borders come from the player.
- Fix Fixed screens that downloaded the same picture again for every turn of the playlist. A screen now plays the copy it saved. Screens on a slow network start faster and use less data.
- Fix Fixed the pairing code staying bright after a screen loses its connection. The code now dims and the screen tells you to check the network.
- Fix Fixed the invoice pay link for an account that has more than one open invoice. Before, the card payment could ask for the total of all open invoices. Now the page tells you how to pay only your invoice.
- Fix Fixed screen operating hours. Screens turned off at the wrong time of day. A screen with no timezone of its own now uses the timezone of its location. If the location has none, the screen uses the timezone of the workspace.
- Fix Fixed the time zone of a location. Screens at a location now follow the time zone that you set for it. Before, a screen kept the time zone that it detected from its network.
- Fix Fixed the screen on and off times for a screen that is offline. The screen now uses its own clock. Before, a screen that lost its connection stayed on until the connection came back.
- Fix Fixed the invoice page for a location that pays its own bill. The page now shows the name of the location that the invoice is for.
- Fix Fixed apps on Windows screens. An app showed a card that said the app did not load. Apps now play.
- Fix Fixed a Windows screen that stayed dark after the player restarted. The player now keeps playing.
- Feature You can now switch between all the accounts you signed in to on this browser. The account menu shows every account. Accounts that need your password again show "Signed out" and open the sign-in page with your email address filled in.
- Feature You can now move screens into a location from the location's page in Settings → Organization.
- Feature You can now remove a person's access to a location from the location's page.
- Feature You can now move a person's access to a different location from the location's page — same role, new scope.
- Improvement The location page now shows one row of actions — add a location, move screens here, add person, and delete.
- Fix Fixed imported videos not playing their full length in playlists.
- Fix Fixed the slow load of Files in a workspace with a long activity history.
- Fix Fixed video uploads not recording the video's dimensions. Files now shows the size and orientation for new videos.
- Fix Fixed large video uploads skipping the format compatibility check. Videos over 90 MB now get the same warning as small videos when the format can cause playback problems.
- Fix Fixed the address check for a web page on the screen's own network. The page must use an http:// or https:// address. Brix refuses any other address type and tells you what to change.
- Fix Fixed invite links that expired too soon. An invite link is now valid for seven days.
- Fix Fixed the Workspace page showing no plan details when the billing service was slow to answer. The page now shows your last known plan, cadence, licensed screens and renewal date.
- Improvement The CMS answers faster. Users far from the Brix servers see the largest change.
- Fix Fixed screen volume that changed by itself during the day. A volume set on the TV now stays until you change the volume in Brix.
- Fix Fixed videos that paused for a short time on screens with large stored videos.
- Fix Fixed a fault that could make a screen show one playlist item for much longer than its set time.
- Feature You can now open the training for the page you are on. Press the question mark key, or the ? button at the top of any page. Command-K finds every course by name. The training page for each level lists the same courses.
- Feature You can now show a web page that is on your own network. Add the address on the Links page, and Brix selects the on-network option for you. Your screens at that site open the page directly.
- Improvement You can now change the number of screens on your plan in one step. Settings → Billing starts with a screen count field. Type the new number and select Review and pay. You then see the new plan, the amount charged now, and the amount on renewal.
- Fix Fixed training courses that did not open the page they teach. Six courses in Everything started on the Screens page and pointed at controls that were not there. The courses are Data sources, the template editor, Motion, Sharing, Shared airtime and Emergency messaging. A course also ends when you finish its last step. To close a course gives no warning about the setup walkthrough.
- Fix Fixed a screen plan that changed when the card payment failed. Your plan now changes only after the bank approves the payment. If the bank declines the card, your plan stays the same, and Brix charges nothing.
- Fix Fixed very small labels across the CMS. They now use one readable size.
- Fix Fixed labels that showed far too large. Section labels in the screen panel and the side menu were the wrong size for about two hours today. Some overlapped their own text. They now show at the correct size.
- Feature You can now start with boards made for your trade. Tailored sets cover gyms, salons, hotels, clinics, banks, places of worship, cities, campuses, plants and grocers. Each set fits how that business runs its screens.
- Improvement Upload a design file and the CMS now checks it against the Brix design standard. A design with unreadable text does not import. The message names the problem and the fix. Designs with minor notes still import, and the notes show before you open the design.
- Improvement Training now covers the whole product. Settings → Training lists every level: the basics, Going further, and Everything. The middle level covers folders, approvals, scheduling depth, brand kit, roles and alerts. Everything covers every control, plus billing, security, proof of play, API and MCP. Start any module on its own.
- Improvement Pick a design and put it on a screen in one step. Change content, bulk change, and the quick cast now list your designs. The designs from setup are there on day one.
- Improvement A screen that is set up but never connects now tells you. The alert opens 30 minutes after setup and an email follows with what to check. The alert clears itself when the screen comes online.
- Improvement The setup guide does not stop when a step is not possible. The guide skips the step, or shows a control to skip it.
- Fix Fixed Invalid Date on the pay and invoice pages. An invoice with a broken date now shows a dash.
- Fix Fixed mixed wording on the Files page and the Web pages page. The pages now say files and web pages everywhere, instead of assets or items.
- Fix Fixed the starter photos from setup. They now play on your screens.
- Fix Fixed the screen list after you pair a screen. The list now shows that the screen waits for its player. Before, the list said the screen was not paired, which could cause a second screen.
- Fix Fixed the browser screen link. The screen is ready when you make the link, and the page connects when you open it.
- Fix Fixed the setup banner asking you to continue after the walkthrough was gone. Workspaces saved against an older, longer guide now count as finished.
- Fix Fixed small text on the welcome and offer boards. Hours like breakfast and pool times now use the 36px reading size.
- Feature You can now give an AI assistant more of the CMS work over MCP. New tools find media by name. New tools change a playlist or a media item. New tools put content on screens for a time. One tool writes an announcement and shows it on the screens you pick.
- Improvement MCP can read emergency templates, approvals, the recycle bin, proof-of-play, uptime and the audit log. Restore from the recycle bin is possible over MCP.
- Improvement MCP can read Files, templates, apps, layouts, data sources and screen groups as resources.
- Improvement MCP now agrees its protocol version with the AI client. MCP offers prompt workflows. Long lists arrive in pages. Results come as data, not only text.
- Fix Fixed: a canceled account that tries to buy screens now sees a clear message. The message says to reactivate the account first.
- Fix Fixed the status pill on a screen that shows an active emergency. The pill said Playing. Now the pill says Emergency and names the message.
- Fix Fixed the LIVE badge on a preview left open for a few minutes. The badge flashed on and off as captures slowed. Now the badge stays off, and the caption states the slower rate.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview when a screenshot fails to load. The preview kept the last good frame instead of showing a no-content message.
- Fix Fixed upload cancel. When you removed a file while it was still sending, the transfer continued, and the asset appeared anyway. Now the upload stops.
- Fix Fixed slow opening of the Files page on large libraries. The page no longer downloads the whole library to count folders and unused files. Large libraries now open faster and use far less data.
- Fix Fixed: screens at a location kept playing after someone canceled that location's billing plan. They now show a hold message until the plan is active again.
- Fix Fixed: the API refuses new screens when the account has no active subscription.
- Feature You can now add screens to your plan from Settings, Billing. Brix shows the prorated amount and the new screen total before you confirm.
- Feature You can now follow a guided walkthrough that sets up your first screen and teaches the rest of Brix. The walkthrough starts when you sign up. Each step points at the control to use next, and you can stop at any point.
- Feature You can now bill each site separately, while everyone keeps one shared content library. Go to Settings, Billing, Billing groups. Add a group for each site. Set the finance contact who receives its invoices. Choose which screens that site pays for. When you pair a screen, you can select which site pays for it.
- Fix Fixed the online payment page. The button to pay an invoice by card did not open the payment page.
- Feature You can now turn a photo or a video in Files. You can turn one file, or many files at the same time.
- Feature You can now start the guided setup again from the Workspace settings.
- Fix Fixed a screen that shows a cast reading as out of sync. The screen now shows Casting.
- Feature You can now let people change a template you share without waiting for approval.
- Improvement Buttons keep their contrast while the pointer is on them, so the label stays easy to read.
- Fix Fixed changes to a shared template not going for approval in the location that made them.
- Fix Fixed the rule for what people can change on a shared template not saving with the template.
- Fix Fixed the tabs on Web pages, Apps and Approvals not telling a screen reader which list they control.
- Fix Fixed the switches in Settings then Features having no name for a screen reader.
- Fix Fixed the long command boxes in Settings then API keys. You can now scroll them with the keyboard.
- Fix Fixed the rename and delete buttons on a media folder being too small to select accurately.
- Feature You can now trigger an emergency takeover yourself. Go to Alerts, open the Emergency tab, choose a pre-armed message and choose the screens. Every screen you chose switches to that message. Clear the takeover and each screen returns to its normal content. Prepare your messages in Settings → Emergency templates. Set Pre-stage on a message that must show even if the building loses its internet connection.
- Feature You can now make single sign-on mandatory for your whole workspace. Go to Settings → Security and turn on the mandatory single sign-on switch. A member whose email domain your connection covers must then sign in through your identity provider. A Brix password no longer works for them. A member on a domain no connection covers keeps their password. The same page now has the switch that turns on two-factor authentication for everyone.
- Improvement A screen reader now announces the status of a playlist. The emergency template list reads as a list. The times in the schedule grid meet the contrast standard. A keyboard user gets one clear stop on each role card.
- Improvement Brix now stores media files in an Asia-Pacific region. A workspace that you create in Asia uses this region. A screen in Singapore or Tokyo loads its pictures and videos from nearby.
- Fix Fixed large videos that showed only a play symbol in your files. Every video now shows a picture from the video itself, whatever its length or size.
- Fix Fixed the data residency region in Settings → Workspace. A workspace that stores its media in Oceania showed the United States. The page now names the correct region.
- Feature You can now check a playlist before it goes on a screen. Open a playlist and select Check content. Brix shows each item in a screen-shaped frame, and you step through them. An item that does not load says so.
- Improvement Shared airtime now starts hidden for small workspaces. A workspace that sells airtime gets it from the start. Turn it on or off at any time in Settings → Features.
- Improvement Content shared into another workspace now warns you before you delete it. The warning covers every kind of content. Choose to delete anyway to remove those shares.
- Improvement A TikTok feed now keeps the last posts on screen while TikTok is unavailable. The other feeds already did this.
- Improvement Video wall sync is not offered on new screens for now. A screen already set to it keeps playing that way.
- Fix Fixed the shared airtime tools staying hidden on a large workspace with no teams yet. The playlist editor now shows where to add a team.
- Fix Fixed a Canvas or a template losing its kind in a schedule. The schedule refused to save a second time, and a fallback disappeared from the editor.
- Fix Fixed undo after you remove a layout from a playlist. The layout returns to the list.
- Fix Fixed the content picker in a layout zone. Search now looks through the whole library, not only the newest files. A link appears in the Links tab only.
- Fix Fixed an edit to a template or a Canvas that is on air. The change now reaches those screens straight away.
- Fix Fixed an emergency takeover staying on the screen after it expired. The takeover now leaves the screen at once.
- Fix Fixed the screen panel giving two answers about one connection. The Connection row and the Health tab inside it now agree.
- Fix Fixed the dashboard reporting before its data arrives. The page no longer says a workspace has no screens while the count is on its way.
- Fix Fixed a social account with no posts yet showing an error. The feed now shows as empty.
- Fix Fixed a bulk delete staying silent about items it could not remove. Links now report them, as the other pages do.
- Fix Fixed a screen paired with a 6-digit code starting in video wall mode. A video that plays to the end held the playlist. The screen now plays independently.
- Fix Fixed a new US workspace starting the week on Monday. The week now starts on Sunday, with a 12-hour clock.
- Fix Fixed screenshots on some older sticks. The stick reported full-screen capture but captured only the web view, which made video previews look black.
- Feature You can now choose what a shared template lets another Space change. The options are nothing, the text, the formatting, the position, or everything.
- Feature You can now set an exception for one layer, so the rest of a shared template stays locked.
- Feature You can now let a person share a template without letting them edit it. An Admin sets this in the roles grid.
- Feature You can now read one line on the screen panel that says why a screen is silent.
- Feature You can now turn on screen capture at the screen itself, with no laptop and no cable. Brix then shows a real preview of the video on the glass.
- Feature You can now share a template with a role or with one person, not only with a location. For example, every manager can get the design.
- Feature You can now read in the share dialog who has the template and what they can change.
- Improvement The template editor now starts with one tool strip, three actions in the top bar, and no timeline.
- Improvement The screen volume now takes precedence over the Workspace volume. Set one screen louder or silent without touching the rest.
- Improvement Brix can now move a screen back to the previous player version after a bad update.
- Improvement Brix no longer lists Samsung Tizen or LG webOS as supported platforms.
- Improvement The layer exceptions list now labels each column and states in words what each layer allows.
- Improvement The share dialog now colors each ability to match its option. An ability that is not picked shows a light shade.
- Improvement Sharing a playlist now works the same way as sharing a template. Choose locations, roles or people, and see who has it now.
- Improvement Shared airtime now splits the real screen time, not the item count. A team that fills its share with long videos gets its set percentage and no more.
- Improvement The playlist editor now has one home for shared airtime. Each share shows its minutes for each hour, and the separate Audience setting is gone.
- Fix Fixed a screen reporting itself as offline while it installed a player update.
- Fix Fixed Brix reporting a screen as blank or frozen when the player cannot capture the video.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing a stand-in picture when no live frame was available.
- Fix Fixed the content storage figure sometimes offering more space than the screen has.
- Fix Fixed the volume warning appearing on screens where the hardware follows the Brix volume.
- Fix Fixed the sound message contradicting itself when someone turned the volume down on the screen itself.
- Fix Fixed the animation settings sitting in two places in the template editor.
- Fix Fixed the Template tool showing an empty box instead of the template content.
- Fix Fixed the lock color changing as you moved between layers.
- Fix Fixed the share dialog jumping back to Only me after you chose specific locations, roles or people.
- Fix Fixed the column icons in the layer exceptions list sitting out of line with the rows.
- Improvement Brix now converts high-quality H.264 videos that some TVs cannot play when you upload them.
- Improvement The timeline in the template editor no longer opens because a template has animation.
- Fix Fixed every video playing with no sound. Turn on Sound for a video in its detail panel.
- Fix Fixed a large video that never finished its download on a slow internet connection.
- Fix Fixed the hide button of the timeline in the template editor needing two presses.
- Fix Fixed the layer buttons in the template editor showing no change when you moved over them.
- Feature You can now move files into a folder in Files. Drag the files onto a folder, or select Move to.
- Improvement The screen panel for a portrait screen now shows the details beside the picture.
- Improvement The screen panel now shows the full screen name. The screen ID becomes a small copy button.
- Fix Fixed the plan card showing a price of zero. The card now uses the number of screen licences you bought.
- Fix Fixed the plan card showing Current for every subscription. The card now shows a pause, a cancellation or an end date.
- Feature You can now filter Files by use. Choose In use or Unused in the State filter.
- Improvement The detail panel in Files now plays a video, not only its first frame.
- Improvement Captured frames from a portrait screen now show in portrait in the screen panel.
- Improvement The portrait preview in the screen panel now gets smaller step by step as you scroll.
- Fix Fixed a file that plays directly on a screen showing as Unused.
- Fix Fixed file cards in Files showing their details at different heights.
- Feature You can now delete many screens at once from the bulk bar on the Screens page.
- Feature You can now set a cast to a fixed time. One hour is the default, and the screen row shows the time left.
- Feature You can now make a cast the usual content of a screen with one select.
- Improvement A screen that shows a cast is now violet in the list, with an End button.
- Improvement Portrait files now show whole in Files, not cropped to a landscape slice.
- Improvement A cast now plays full screen. Only emergency messages show the banner across the top.
- Improvement A new player update now reaches online screens within minutes, not at the next restart.
- Fix Fixed the setup checklist on the dashboard showing 0 of 3 done for a moment on a ready workspace.
- Fix Fixed the watermark and the clock staying sideways on a rotated screen.
- Fix Fixed Brix reporting a frozen picture on some screens that played normally.
- Improvement A screen that loses power now shows as offline within about one minute. Before, the change took up to 45 minutes.
- Improvement The Billing page now names each payment method. For example, Apple Pay shows the card brand and the last four digits.
- Fix Fixed a screen that started with no network showing nothing. The screen now plays the content it saved before.
- Fix Fixed portrait screens on some TVs showing sideways in the preview and the screens list.
- Fix Fixed the Screens page offering Quick Post when there were no screens to post to.
- Feature You can now pick a sport for the ESPN headlines app. Choose from 17 sports or the top headlines.
- Improvement The timeline in the template editor now hides until you need it. The design gets more room.
- Improvement Screens now keep Proof of Play records through a power cut and send them after the restart.
- Fix Fixed schedules refusing to save a template in a daypart or as the fallback.
- Fix Fixed some Fire TV screens showing a system recording prompt over the content.
- Fix Fixed the replay button showing each time you opened a template preview.
- Fix Fixed the session recording setting showing Off when recording was on.
- Improvement The playlist header now shows Schedule, Playback and Audience side by side when there is room.
- Fix Fixed the Obstructed warning staying on some Android screens after the cover was gone.
- Fix Fixed the detail panel in Files showing a broken picture for a video.
- Fix Fixed the template preview cutting off part of the design.
- Fix Fixed the resize handles in the template editor showing only in part.
- Fix Fixed the Reduce motion setting not stopping every animation in the CMS.
- Feature You can now give or withdraw consent for session recording once. Brix keeps your answer for every computer you use.
- Improvement Brix asks for consent to record sessions only where the law asks for consent first.
- Fix Fixed the consent setting showing Loading without end when Brix could not reach the server.
- Improvement Small workspaces now get Layouts too. A one-screen workspace can now show more than one zone on a screen.
- Improvement Every new workspace now starts with starter designs, also when you skip the industry question.
- Improvement Fashion, jewelry, auto, cinema and real estate workspaces now get two designs made for their business.
- Improvement The industry list in setup now shows an icon for each industry.
- Fix Fixed sign-up with Google or Microsoft skipping the setup steps.
- Improvement Menu items now show a pointer when you move over them.
- Improvement The account switcher no longer shows the internal workspace ID under each name.
- Improvement The colored line in the sidebar now moves faster for a short jump. The line also leans toward the item under the pointer.
- Feature You can now pause a subscription from the Billing page. Pause sits next to Cancel.
- Feature You can now add many locations from a spreadsheet. Each row sets the name, the time zone and the town.
- Feature You can now reset your password from Settings → Security.
- Feature You can now replace the hardware of a screen from the row menu on the Screens page.
- Feature You can now turn Proof of Play recording on or off. The switch is on the Proof of Play report and in Settings → Features.
- Improvement The upgrade to annual billing now shows the amount due today, the credit and the renewal date.
- Improvement Each invoice row now shows the number, the date, the card and the amount, with a plain status.
- Improvement The plan card now shows the date of your next renewal.
- Improvement Paying customers no longer see trial banners that ask them to choose a plan.
- Improvement Type a section name in the ⌘K search to go there. The section you name now shows first.
- Improvement An empty location now shows the next steps first. Rare settings now sit under More settings.
- Improvement Use SSO only now shows only after you add a passkey or a sign-in provider.
- Improvement An empty tab in the quick picker now tells you why it has no items.
- Improvement The colored line in the sidebar now slides to the item you select.
- Fix Fixed Sign-in methods showing Loading without end when the page could not load.
- Feature You can now clear an Obstructed warning from the Player tab. Brix closes the system window that covers the content.
- Feature You can now put one file, an app or a layout in a schedule daypart, not only a playlist.
- Feature You can now turn the screens off when no schedule block is on.
- Feature You can now send one link that pays every outstanding invoice in one payment.
- Feature You can now make a second card the backup card. Brix charges the backup card if the main card fails.
- Feature You can now pick a layout from the quick picker on each screen row.
- Improvement The Weather app now shows moving clouds, rain, snow and lightning on screens. The wind speed sets how fast the clouds move.
- Improvement The Weather app now fills a portrait screen with a large layout and a large temperature.
- Improvement The Obstructed status is now amber, not red, because the content continues to play.
- Improvement The screens list now shows an icon for the kind of content on each screen.
- Improvement Invoices now open in the browser. A downloaded invoice file now has the invoice number in its name.
- Improvement The repeat setting for a schedule now sits under Active dates. You can now repeat every 6, 8 or 12 weeks.
- Improvement Sharing options no longer show on a workspace that has only one location.
- Fix Fixed a playlist that plays only from a schedule showing as Unused. Hover the screen count to see the screen names.
- Fix Fixed a short pause when one 4K video changes to the next.
- Fix Fixed a blank page that showed for a moment when you moved between sections.
- Improvement Very detailed 4K videos now play without dropped frames on Signage Sticks. Brix caps the bitrate of the 4K copy that goes to the screen.
- Fix Fixed one stick showing as two screens in the list of screens that wait to pair.
- Fix Fixed a short black flash between two videos on Android screens.
- Feature You can now import a Claude Design .json file as a template.
- Improvement The CMS now shows a short transition when you move between sections.
- Improvement The ⌘K shortcut for Templates is now G then T.
- Improvement The Links page now uses the full page width, like Apps.
- Fix Fixed template thumbnails showing token text in place of your company name.
- Fix Fixed the bulk-action bar wrapping onto two lines.
12 July
See your screens as live previews. The grid view shows what each screen plays now.
15 July
Show content in portrait. Pick Landscape or Portrait for an Amazon Signage Stick.
13 July
Copy a day of a schedule. Copy Monday to the other days in one step.
11 July
Show your text in the screen's language. Set a language for a screen, and Brix translates your templates and feeds.
9 July
Undo a delete. The message after a delete has an Undo button.
- Feature You can now play 4K video on screens that support 4K. Brix makes a 4K copy of each 4K upload.
- Feature You can now see on the Player tab which videos play at a lower quality on the screen. The tab also tells you how to fix the problem.
- Feature You can now upload images at up to 4K.
- Feature You can now get an alert when a system dialog covers the screen.
- Feature You can now set an alert for a frozen screen or a blank screen.
- Feature You can now let an alert take a screenshot of the screen when the alert first notifies.
- Feature You can now send an alert to the manager of the location where the screen is.
- Feature You can now change from annual to monthly billing yourself. The change starts at the end of the term.
- Feature You can now complete a Wi-Fi sign-in page on a portrait screen.
- Feature You can now pick Advertising as your industry when you set up your workspace.
- Improvement Brix now keeps the original file when you upload a 4K video.
- Improvement Offline alerts are now on for every workspace by default.
- Improvement The alert rule editor now has five fields and presets that you add in one step.
- Improvement The trial banner now turns amber as the end of the trial gets near. Near the last day, the banner turns red.
- Feature You can now upload a PowerPoint deck. Brix converts the deck for your screens.
- Fix Fixed an error when an API key read the account details.
- Feature You can now set a volume and a master mute for the whole workspace in Settings, Workspace.
- Improvement The screen settings now show which volume setting controls the screen.
- Improvement Videos on screens now always play. The Autoplay videos setting is gone.
- Improvement The screen panel no longer shows an outage that ended as a current problem.
- Fix Fixed the Audio control on the screen panel opening at a fixed volume, not at the screen volume.
- Feature You can now add a schedule block that turns the screens off.
- Feature You can now search your screens, media, playlists and templates from the ⌘K palette.
- Feature You can now see the content that another workspace shares with you, under Shared with us.
- Improvement Schedule blocks that overlap now take turns on the screen. Priority is optional.
- Improvement The schedule block editor now uses the Brix date and time pickers.
- Improvement Some old PowerPoint files have the wrong format. Brix now tells you to save these files again in PowerPoint.
- Improvement The CMS now shows the Amazon Signage Stick by its product name.
- Improvement A screen whose display does not turn now corrects the picture itself.
- Improvement Deleting content now also stops any cast or emergency that shows the content.
- Improvement The screen panel no longer shows estimated CPU and temperature values.
- Improvement A portrait screen preview now sits in the center, with its controls around the frame.
- Fix Fixed images on screens that looked stretched or squashed.
- Fix Fixed screens that held the old picture during a change of orientation.
- Fix Fixed the screen version in the CMS. The CMS now shows the version of the player that runs on the screen.
- Fix Fixed Restore in the recycle bin for signage boards, banners and media folders.
- Fix Fixed media in signage boards and template backgrounds that showed as Unused.
- Fix Fixed an emergency or cast with no content that left the screen on a blank page.
- Fix Fixed items in a playlist share with an every-nth rule that never played.
- Fix Fixed the orientation picker snapping back after you changed the orientation.
- Fix Fixed the live preview that did not turn with the screen after a change of orientation.
- Improvement An API key can now never do more than the person who made the key.
- Fix Fixed the preview of a portrait screen looking squashed.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview opening at the wrong shape. The preview no longer jumps to the correct shape.
- Fix Fixed the preview frame showing a blue border or a stretched picture.
- Fix Fixed the clock on the LIVE badge going backwards.
- Fix Fixed the Connection row on the screen panel flickering.
- Fix Fixed the screen panel scrolling you back up before you reached the bottom.
- Fix Fixed the second undo message closing sooner than the first.
- Fix Fixed the PIN pad on the screen not working with a remote control.
- Improvement Select a screen name in the Screens list to open the side panel. Use the pencil to rename the screen.
- Improvement The volume slider now saves your change when you release the slider.
- Improvement The Connection row on the screen panel is now easier to read.
- Improvement A change of orientation now gets a new preview frame from the screen.
- Fix Fixed a failed app save that closed the settings and lost your changes.
- Fix Fixed changes in the template editor that were lost when you made them during a save.
- Fix Fixed the Screens page not loading for workspaces with a large amount of content.
- Fix Fixed Import anyway stopping the whole import when some media did not exist.
- Fix Fixed screens showing designs in a different font from the CMS preview.
- Fix Fixed Settings, Features not saving your changes.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview staying blank for workspaces in the EU or the UK.
- Fix Fixed the orientation picker going back to Landscape until you clicked a second time.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview jumping and showing a white band when you scrolled the screen panel.
- Fix Fixed RSS apps that showed a blank screen.
- Feature You can now restart an ended free trial from Settings, Billing. A card must be on file.
- Improvement The screen panel now shows the status and the settings in one view. The Diagnostics tab is gone.
- Improvement When a free trial ends, the screen now shows the direct link to the billing page.
- Fix Fixed screens that showed content sideways when the screen did not turn to the set orientation.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing a cropped piece of a sideways capture. The preview now shows the full picture.
- Fix Fixed existing accounts that Brix sent to the setup wizard.
- Improvement Brix now makes QR codes itself. The link in a QR code no longer goes to an outside service.
- Improvement Each alert rule now uses its own threshold and recipients for the screens it targets.
- Fix Fixed Settings tab fields on the screen panel that kept an old value after a change from somewhere else.
- Fix Fixed alert rules that applied to every screen. You can now pick the location or screen for each rule.
- Fix Fixed the alert rule editor losing your draft when a save failed.
- Fix Fixed emergency templates that could not target one location. You can now also pick the content to prepare in advance.
- Fix Fixed the fallback content picker on a schedule showing a value that did not save.
- Fix Fixed bulk delete of schedules hiding the rows that failed to delete.
- Fix Fixed a screen that could restart again and again after a failed player update.
- Fix Fixed problems that could let a person in one workspace reach data in another workspace.
- Fix Fixed a template layer that lost its custom name when you changed the layer type.
- Fix Fixed grouped layers that stayed behind when you moved a selection of layers together.
- Fix Fixed a schedule block that ended at midnight. Brix saved the block as a long overnight block.
- Fix Fixed a power policy with a fixed time zone that you could save with no zone.
- Improvement Brix now asks you to confirm before you delete a media folder.
- Fix Fixed custom fonts not showing in the template font picker.
- Fix Fixed the Expired media filter stopping the list from loading more items.
- Fix Fixed Approvals showing All caught up while the list was still loading.
- Fix Fixed a duplicated counter app sharing its count with the original.
- Fix Fixed the account switcher losing workspaces when you added a workspace with SSO.
- Fix Fixed API key creation errors not showing.
- Fix Fixed invoice amounts losing their cents on the pay page and in billing history.
- Fix Fixed deleted content showing in search.
- Fix Fixed restored items not showing in the list after a restore from the recycle bin.
- Fix Fixed Shift selection picking the wrong screens in the screens list.
- Fix Fixed a YouTube live stream showing as not live after a short YouTube error.
- Fix Fixed screens taking up to two and a half minutes to recover after a player restart.
- Improvement Apps in Alpha, Beta or Deprecated now show a label. The label shows in the app store and on your apps.
- Improvement The screen side panel now slides in when you open it.
- Fix Fixed the screen rotation going back to the old value when the screen could not apply the change.
- Improvement Screens now play images, audio, fonts and PDF pages from their cache first.
- Improvement Apps now show an hourly snapshot when the screen has no internet.
- Improvement The Cache tab now explains in plain words which content needs the internet.
- Fix Fixed directly assigned templates and signage showing as unassigned.
- Fix Fixed pages showing an empty state while the content was still loading.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing the wrong orientation and a LIVE clock that did not move.
- Fix Fixed the screen side panel scrolling faster than the pointer.
- Fix Fixed the Flight status board showing flights for the wrong time window.
- Fix Fixed bulk delete of apps hiding failed deletes.
- Fix Fixed the UPDATE NOW button on the screen panel.
- Fix Fixed screens forgetting their rotation after a restart.
- Fix Fixed a broken next item cutting the video on screen short.
- Fix Fixed a switched-off display turning on every 15 minutes.
- Fix Fixed a USB factory reset keeping the previous account on the screen.
- Feature You can now show content in portrait on the Amazon Signage Stick.
- Feature You can now pick Landscape or Portrait, normal or flipped. The CMS warns you when the content does not match.
- Feature You can now choose Fit, Fill or Stretch for media that you assign directly to a screen.
- Feature You can now see a warning in Media when a video drops frames. The warning names the screens.
- Improvement The CMS now shows the rotation that the screen really uses.
- Improvement The screen preview now follows the screen rotation. Playlists now show a thumbnail made from their items.
- Improvement The Cache tab now shows a real thumbnail for each kind of cached content.
- Improvement RSS and TikTok feeds now show at once and stay on screen during short network problems.
- Fix Fixed Mirror screen not connecting.
- Feature You can now press Update now to install a waiting player update. The button is in the CMS and on the screen panel.
- Improvement Screens now prepare the next image and stream before their turn, so hand-offs are faster.
- Fix Fixed a screen mounted upside down showing black wherever video played.
- Fix Fixed screens losing their rotation after the player reloaded.
- Fix Fixed screens downloading media again when the media was already in the cache.
- Fix Fixed screens going black between items when the screen used reduced motion.
- Fix Fixed a video that did not start freezing the screen for 20 seconds.
- Fix Fixed some screens opening an install dialog again and again.
- Fix Fixed a screen reporting that it was up to date when an update had not started.
- Feature You can now copy a day of a schedule to other days.
- Feature You can now see a line for the current time in the schedule grid. The grid also shows when the fallback content plays.
- Improvement Schedule blocks now show at their real start and end times. Blocks that overlap show side by side with a warning.
- Improvement Onboarding now has 3 steps, not 5. The industry step shows a preview of the starter designs you get.
- Improvement Starter designs now show your organization name.
- Improvement The playlist editor now shows each item with a large thumbnail and a summary of its settings.
- Improvement You must now finish the setup of an app before you can save the app.
- Improvement A video in a playlist now plays for its own length by default.
- Fix Fixed a black flash between two videos.
- Fix Fixed a short video freezing on its last frame until the slot ended. The video now loops.
- Fix Fixed screens showing an error picture for a web page that does not allow framing.
- Fix Fixed screens showing Content unavailable between healthy items.
- Fix Fixed empty layout zones showing NO CONTENT on screens.
- Feature You can now see screens in a grid of live previews.
- Feature You can now see the total length of nested playlists and open a nested playlist from its parent.
- Improvement The screen side panel now starts with the live preview. A running cast shows on the Cast button with its own stop control.
- Improvement The side panel of an unpaired screen now shows the pairing steps.
- Improvement The screen settings now hide input and RS232 controls that the screen cannot use.
- Improvement Videos now get a poster image. Brix no longer asks you to export modern video formats to MP4.
- Fix Fixed Mute when closed having no effect on screens.
- Fix Fixed the sync option that uses the screen clock behaving the same as no sync.
- Fix Fixed the corner clock ignoring the screen time zone.
- Fix Fixed deactivated screens continuing to play content.
- Fix Fixed the Amazon Signage Stick and Fire TV closing the player on some HLS videos with subtitles.
- Fix Fixed some screens not caching the whole playlist or large videos.
- Fix Fixed a screen going back to the first item when you deleted the item on screen.
- Fix Fixed media previews not loading in the media grid.
- Fix Fixed web link snapshots ignoring the render size you set.
- Feature You can now set a language for the workspace, for a location unit and for a screen.
- Feature You can now translate template text, signage text, captions and feed content to the screen language.
- Feature You can now set a location and default content on a location unit. Unassigned screens show the content they get from the unit.
- Feature You can now change content, move, or set the location and tags for many screens at once.
- Feature You can now rename a screen in the list and select all screens, not only the loaded page.
- Feature You can now claim all waiting screens at once and add them to a location.
- Feature You can now duplicate a playlist or an app.
- Feature You can now add many location units at once. Paste one name on each line.
- Feature You can now reserve a percentage of a playlist for a team. The team adds its content from the Shared with you page.
- Feature You can now pick a custom date range for proof of play. You can also see plays by day and by daypart.
- Improvement The dashboard now shows plays for the last 7 days, your top content and a setup checklist.
- Improvement You can now use the template editor with only a keyboard.
- Improvement Screens now show images and text sharper on 4K screens.
- Fix Fixed the QR code option for web links not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed Save token for web links reporting success when the field was empty.
- Feature You can now add live data apps for currency, crypto prices, holidays, sports standings, air quality and emergency alerts.
- Feature You can now add a Stock ticker, a Flight status board and Yelp reviews.
- Feature You can now show Microsoft 365 meeting rooms, Google Calendar rooms and Google Sheets boards.
- Feature You can now add a YouTube app and show Instagram Stories.
- Improvement Every drag action in the editors now works with touch and with a pen.
- Improvement Controls that show on hover now also show on touch screens.
- Improvement Thumbnails no longer load again each time you open a page. A thumbnail that fails shows the content type icon.
- Improvement The template editor and app preview no longer flash while you type.
- Fix Fixed short black blinks between items and at the end of a video loop.
- Fix Fixed a single looping media item stopping after a short network problem.
- Fix Fixed the ticker text in the information bar being hard to read.
- Fix Fixed a long playlist getting duplicate items when two people reordered the playlist at once.
- Feature You can now undo a media delete from the message that appears after you delete.
- Improvement The live preview of an Amazon Signage Stick now holds steady and no longer goes black.
- Improvement Dragging boxes in the template editor now follows the pointer more closely.
- Improvement Playlist items now move into place when you add or reorder them.
- Improvement Media now changes from Processing to Ready without a page reload.
- Fix Fixed video captions not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed media shared from another Space not playing on screens.
- Fix Fixed images in signage templates not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed the live preview showing LIVE over the last frame of an offline screen.
- Fix Fixed teammate invites not being sent from new self-serve workspaces.
- Fix Fixed the billing page offering a yearly plan switch to workspaces on a trial.
- Fix Fixed Brix reporting a command as done when the screen could not run it.
- Feature You can now show posts from X, LinkedIn, Viva Engage, Mastodon and Bluesky with five new apps.
- Improvement The screen side panel now labels the sync percentage. The percentage shows as out of date when the screen is offline.
- Improvement The screen details now show the real cache sizes and name the Amazon Signage Stick correctly.
- Improvement The sign-up page now links to the correct Terms of Service page.
- Fix Fixed the live preview flashing on each new capture and on playlists with images and videos.
- Fix Fixed the live preview showing No content assigned for a moment between captures.
- Fix Fixed the live preview time and LIVE badge not matching the frame on view.
- Fix Fixed logos, backgrounds and template images not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed the offline warning showing two times in the Live tab.
- Feature You can now show social media with six new apps. The apps are YouTube channel stats, YouTube live banner, Instagram, Facebook page, Google reviews and TikTok.
- Feature You can now connect a social account from the app settings, and pick the account for each app.
- Feature You can now see a banner with the amount and the due date when an invoice is overdue.
- Feature You can now see how many screens really show an emergency message. Brix alerts you when a screen does not show the message.
- Improvement To delete your account, you must now enter your password again. Each owner gets an email with a link to stop the deletion.
- Improvement Settings, Features no longer shows switches that had no effect.
- Fix Fixed Inactive or expired media still playing on screens.
- Fix Fixed a screen restored from the recycle bin not reconnecting to its content.
- Fix Fixed Brix reporting a black screen as healthy.
- Fix Fixed a paired screen losing its pairing on a Wi-Fi network with a sign-in page.
- Fix Fixed screen mirroring waiting up to one minute before it started.
- Fix Fixed passkey sign-in failing in the CMS.
- Fix Fixed bulk media actions changing items that the current filter hid.
- Fix Fixed bulk delete of web links reporting success when some deletes failed.
- Fix Fixed Undo on a playlist item not restoring the item fit.
- Fix Fixed the schedule grid not showing all 24 hours of the day.
- Fix Fixed custom fonts not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed the tags you added in the upload dialog being lost after the upload.
- Fix Fixed the Expired filter in Media showing no items.
- Fix Fixed celebration photos not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed calendar events showing at the wrong time when the feed used a time zone.
- Improvement A screen now keeps the last approved version of a playlist while an edit waits for approval.
- Improvement When you turn on approval, content that already plays stays on your screens.
- Improvement The CMS now signs you in again on the same page when your session ends. You keep your work.
- Improvement The CMS now tells you when another person changed the same item before you saved.
- Improvement Screens now reduce their load when they get too hot.
- Fix Fixed a playlist with no playable items showing a black screen. The screen now shows a standby card.
- Fix Fixed screens returning to a pairing code after a hardware or storage fault.
- Fix Fixed the nightly screen reload running at 3 am after you turned the reload off or moved the reload.
- Fix Fixed weather fields showing as code text on screens.
- Fix Fixed schedules made with the MCP bulk create tool saving no time blocks.
- Fix Fixed proof-of-play reports counting no more than 5000 plays.
- Fix Fixed an emergency override staying on screen after an overlapping override ended.
- Fix Fixed alerts staying open after you deleted or turned off their rule.
- Fix Fixed the download progress on a new screen showing the wrong percentage.
- Feature You can now add a playlist inside another playlist. The inner playlist plays once, and the outer playlist continues.
- Improvement Brix now stops you from making a loop of playlists inside playlists.
- Improvement Media search now waits until you stop typing, and the Screens page loads faster.
- Fix Fixed an emergency broadcast not showing on a screen that its schedule turned off.
- Fix Fixed Windows screens starting with a blank screen.
- Fix Fixed some Android screens staying on the home screen after a restart.
- Fix Fixed screens showing a pairing code again after a short network drop at start-up.
- Fix Fixed black screens when a screen went offline or an item failed.
- Fix Fixed web pages, captions and streams not playing from some playlist items.
- Fix Fixed items set to play every few rotations, and dayparts that start at midnight, playing at the wrong time.
- Fix Fixed occasional errors in the CMS when Brix was under heavy load.
- Fix Fixed security problems in sign-in, pairing and permissions.
- Feature You can now select a media item in the playlist editor to see its details.
- Improvement The render-failed alert now names the media that failed.
- Improvement Screens now report a specific reason when a video fails.
- Improvement The video preview in the screen panel is now steady, with no flicker.
- Fix Fixed YouTube videos in web content showing Error 153 on screens.
- Fix Fixed playlists showing missing asset items after you deleted the media.
- Fix Fixed a live web item staying on screen. The playlist now moves on after the set time.
- Fix Fixed image items staying on screen too long while Brix took screenshots.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing wrong labels while a video played.
- Fix Fixed the playlist editor showing a fixed time for videos. The editor now shows the full video length.
- Fix Fixed the screen status showing old content after you assigned a new playlist.
4 June
Animate a template on a timeline. Each layer has its own track and play control at the bottom of the editor.
24 June
Set screen hours with a power policy. One policy sets on and off hours for each weekday and a daily restart.
8 June
Send content through more than one approval. Each parent location that needs approval signs off in turn.
3 June
Lock a screen with a PIN. Set a PIN for one screen or for all screens.
26 June
See what might be wrong with a screen. Brix names the likely cause when a screen looks blank or wrong.
- Feature You can now copy a diagnostics report for a screen from the screen panel.
- Improvement Screens now continue through a short Wi-Fi drop without a video error.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing black frames or a stand-in picture during video.
- Feature You can now see the Screen ID in the screen panel and copy the ID in one step.
- Feature You can now search screens by Screen ID.
- Feature You can now add content directly after you pair a screen. The pairing dialog shows an Add content step.
- Feature You can now get an alert when a screen plays video with many dropped frames.
- Improvement Alerts for hot screens, full storage and stuttering video now also send an email to the workspace owner.
- Fix Fixed the screen status showing Healthy while the TV was blank.
- Improvement A screen that cannot pair now says why. For example, the screen tells you that the Wi-Fi needs sign-in on a phone.
- Fix Fixed a new screen showing a black screen at start-up. The screen now shows Starting up.
- Fix Fixed the Spotlight app showing a sample name on screens when you did not enter a name.
- Fix Fixed live screen thumbnails going out of date.
- Fix Fixed security problems in sign-in and in some public addresses.
- Feature You can now upload iPhone photos in HEIC format. Brix changes the photos to JPEG so every screen can show them.
- Feature You can now see what might be wrong with a screen. Brix names the likely cause when a screen looks blank or wrong.
- Improvement Brix now changes AVIF images to JPEG so every screen can show them.
- Improvement Screen previews from Android screens and Amazon Signage Sticks now show the full output of the screen.
- Improvement Brix no longer sends a screen files in a format that the screen cannot play.
- Fix Fixed a screen staying on one frozen item. The screen now moves to the next item.
- Fix Fixed the live preview changing to a stand-in picture during videos.
- Fix Fixed some uploaded images showing as ready when screens could not show them.
- Feature You can now see a warning when a screen is low on storage or memory. The Health tab lists the content that uses the most.
- Improvement The player now uses less memory, so Brix runs better on low-cost hardware.
- Fix Fixed videos failing to play during a crossfade on screens with little memory.
- Fix Fixed a second screen appearing when someone claimed a pre-paired screen again.
- Fix Fixed local screen discovery missing screens on some networks.
- Feature You can now make power policies in Settings, Organization. A policy sets on and off hours for each weekday and a daily restart.
- Feature You can now apply a power policy to one screen or to many screens at once.
- Feature You can now set the on and off hours for many screens at once from the Screens list.
- Feature You can now see the file format of each media item and who uploaded the item. Uploads from the API or MCP show a label.
- Feature You can now see the number of paired screens next to Screens in the sidebar.
- Improvement Smart fit now moves the crop toward the main subject of an image. Screens and the preview both use the new crop.
- Improvement The editor for on and off hours is now simpler. Choose every day, weekdays and weekends, or each day.
- Improvement Screens without HDMI-CEC control no longer show buttons to turn the TV on and off. Brix explains that the schedule blanks these screens.
- Improvement The live frame now updates faster while you watch a screen in the panel.
- Improvement The Issues list now updates while the screen panel is open.
- Fix Fixed the live frame freezing in the screen panel.
- Fix Fixed healthy screens showing as offline or stalled.
- Fix Fixed the Issues section and the banners on a screen showing different problems.
- Fix Fixed an error at sign-in for people who use only SSO.
- Feature You can now sign up and sign in with Google, Microsoft or your company SSO.
- Feature You can now see every way you can sign in, in Settings, Security, Sign-in methods. You can also change from a password to SSO.
- Feature You can now run Brix as a locked kiosk on Windows screens.
- Improvement The on and off hours of a screen now control when the TV is on. The power setting follows those hours.
- Improvement Android screens now return to Brix after a player update or when another app takes the screen.
- Improvement Screens now restart the hardware when the player cannot recover by itself.
- Improvement Screens now clear damaged saved content when the player fails again and again at start-up.
- Fix Fixed the Screens list going blank after a short network error.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing a black frame. The preview now shows the expected content.
- Fix Fixed SSO sign-in stopping on the sign-in page after you returned from your identity provider.
- Feature You can now connect an AI assistant to Brix with MCP. Settings, API and MCP, shows the address and a setup you can copy.
- Improvement Every workspace can now find API keys in Settings, under API and MCP.
- Feature You can now register a screen with an API key, with no pairing code. The screen joins your own workspace.
- Fix Fixed the audit log showing Workspace as the scope of every event.
- Fix Fixed every layout showing 0 screens.
- Feature You can now get an alert when a screen restarts again and again.
- Feature You can now get early alerts when screen storage fills, memory use grows or the network gets worse.
- Feature You can now see where a media item is used and which screens show the item. You can also see when the item last played.
- Improvement Brix now shows when a screen reported a planned restart before the screen went offline.
- Improvement More screens now report CPU use, temperature, Wi-Fi signal and refresh rate.
- Improvement Brix now sends a critical temperature alert in every workspace, with no rule needed.
- Fix Fixed every screen showing 1920×1080 as the resolution. Brix now shows the reported resolution, or a dash.
- Improvement Brix now converts a video larger than 1080p to 1080p at upload. The video then plays smoothly on 1080p screens.
- Improvement Brix now reduces a photo larger than 1080p at upload. PNG files keep their transparency.
- Improvement A video that stutters badly on a screen now skips to the next item.
- Improvement Screens with limited power now show at most six zones. The Health tab shows a Suppressed renders row when zones are hidden.
- Improvement The playback failed alert now states the most common cause and a fix.
- Improvement Screens can now play downloaded media offline for more than one hour.
- Improvement Templates with no clock tag no longer restart their animations every minute.
- Fix Fixed a live stream going black after one network error. The screen now tries again.
- Fix Fixed a blocked web page holding up the playlist. The screen now shows a failed card and moves on.
- Fix Fixed screens taking up to 15 minutes to recover from a frozen picture.
- Fix Fixed some screens staying black after repeated render crashes.
- Fix Fixed memory use growing on screens that show a clock template.
- Fix Fixed a short pause when a screen shows a new full-size image.
- Fix Fixed paired screens drawing the saved content twice at start.
- Fix Fixed some screens not recovering by themselves from a frozen picture or low memory.
- Feature You can now see a problem with an upload on the media item, with steps to fix the problem. For example, a PowerPoint file shows Needs action.
- Improvement Screens now skip a media file that failed checks. The screen does not show a broken card.
- Fix Fixed screens staying on Connecting to Brix during pairing while the screen had internet.
- Feature You can now get an alert when a screen shows a frozen or blank picture. The screen Health tab shows the result.
- Improvement Organization tier names are now saved for the whole workspace, not only in your browser.
- Feature You can now choose form or JSON token encoding when you connect a REST data source.
- Fix Fixed Stripe KPI figures showing only part of the selected period.
- Fix Fixed the HDMI lock control showing a state that the screen did not have.
- Fix Fixed the per-role feature visibility settings not saving.
- Fix Fixed REST data sources that need form sign-in requests failing to connect.
- Fix Fixed an emergency message that failed to start showing no error.
- Fix Fixed billing amounts showing the wrong cents.
- Fix Fixed the Cmd+K command palette not opening.
- Fix Fixed casts taking time to reach the screens.
- Fix Fixed template text not shrinking to fit on the screen the way the editor preview shows.
- Fix Fixed group enter animations not showing on the template editor canvas.
- Fix Fixed an edited schedule playing without a new approval.
- Feature You can now undo a content change on a live screen.
- Feature You can now undo the removal of an item from a live playlist.
- Improvement Brix now keeps the workspace name that you type at sign-up.
- Improvement The dashboard now helps you pair your first screen when the workspace has no screens.
- Improvement The Change content dialog now opens on the first tab. An empty tab offers a button to create content.
- Improvement A screen with no content now shows the screen name and the steps to add content.
- Improvement A command to an offline screen now shows that the command runs when the screen reconnects.
- Improvement API keys can now have an expiry date. Brix refuses an expired key.
- Improvement Brix now locks an account for a short time after many failed sign-ins.
- Fix Fixed Replace screen closing as if it worked when the replacement failed.
- Fix Fixed a schedule set to play alone still playing with other schedules.
- Fix Fixed large media imports from a web address failing.
- Fix Fixed search results showing items that the person had no permission to see.
- Fix Fixed proof of play showing screens from locations that the person cannot access.
- Feature You can now use five new templates for quick-service restaurants. The set has two menu boards and three promo slides.
- Feature You can now show item photos, item tags and a banner on a menu board template.
- Improvement The CMS now loads faster when you open it.
- Fix Fixed menu boards showing the word undefined over a column with no heading.
- Fix Fixed problems that could let a person see or change data in another workspace.
- Feature You can now set a timezone for each location. Sub-locations and screens in the location use the location timezone.
- Feature You can now upload your logo in the Brand Kit. Templates show your logo and your company name.
- Feature You can now add a live tag from the Insert tag menu in the template editor. An example is the workspace name.
- Feature You can now put a data tag in an image address. One image box then shows a different photo for each data row.
- Feature You can now send content through more than one approval level. Each parent location that needs approval signs off in turn.
- Feature You can now pick named approvers on the Organization page. Brix sends them an email when a request waits for them.
- Feature You can now deactivate a person in Settings, Organization. Brix signs the person out at once.
- Feature You can now request approval for a template from the template editor.
- Improvement The default screen timezone is now in Settings, Workspace. The timezone setting in your profile is gone.
- Improvement The Brand Kit company name is now the workspace name. A change in one place changes both.
- Improvement The templates gallery now shows photo templates first. The Style and Mode filters now change the previews.
- Improvement The template editor preview now shows live tags, such as the time and the workspace name, as real values.
- Fix Fixed images in templates not showing on paired screens.
- Fix Fixed people with a custom role showing an empty Role cell. The invite wizard now offers custom roles too.
- Fix Fixed alert rules for triggers that do not work yet showing as active. Those rules now show Coming soon.
- Improvement Photo promo templates now show the photo across the full screen. The text shows on top of the photo.
- Fix Fixed a white bar on templates that use the glare animation.
- Fix Fixed ticker text running over the ticker label.
- Improvement The template gallery now plays the animation of each thumbnail again about every 10 seconds.
- Fix Fixed menu template items overlapping their descriptions.
- Fix Fixed a gray bar on template thumbnails.
- Improvement The sign-in page and the sign-up page now have a new two-column design.
- Improvement The template editor now warns you before you leave with unsaved changes.
- Fix Fixed the sign-up page saying that the trial is 14 days. The trial is 7 days.
- Feature You can now open a template as one animated design, or break the template apart into layers. Select Back to Cinematic to join the layers again.
- Feature You can now change animations on a timeline at the bottom of the editor. Each layer has its own play control.
- Feature You can now add a light sweep element to a template.
- Improvement Templates now show your company name in the brand line.
- Improvement Templates now use the same fonts in the editor and in the gallery thumbnails.
- Improvement Player links now use the play.brixsignage.com address.
- Fix Fixed undo in the template editor.
- Fix Fixed a template opening as one large layer that blocked clicks on the other layers.
- Fix Fixed the bottom of some letters being cut off in templates.
- Feature You can now lock a screen with a PIN. Set a PIN for one screen or for all screens.
- Feature You can now show a live HLS stream. Paste the .m3u8 address into Add web link.
- Feature You can now give a schedule block a priority, a date range, or a repeat every few weeks.
- Feature You can now add apps to a playlist from the add panel.
- Feature You can now pick a light or dark version of a template.
- Improvement The template gallery now groups templates by industry and shows animated previews.
- Improvement Selecting a template now opens the template in the editor. You can change every layer there.
- Improvement Templates now play the enter animation of each box on the screen, the same as in the editor.
- Improvement The player now shows every page of a PDF during the time of the item.
- Improvement Media and playlist rows now show a real cover picture for videos and PDFs.
- Improvement RSS and news apps now pick images that match the screen size.
- Improvement The CMS now shows the workspace ID, so you know which account you are in.
- Improvement Playlists and schedules now show the approval workflow only when the location needs approval.
- Fix Fixed deleted content staying in playlists as a missing item.
- Fix Fixed a white page on the Settings tab of a player.
- Fix Fixed screens showing an error picture while an app loaded.
- Fix Fixed a screen freezing when an app stopped responding.
- Feature You can now start a new template from the template gallery. Filter the gallery by industry.
- Feature You can now add live date, time, weather and brand values to a template.
- Feature You can now see the content that a screen keeps for offline play on the Cache tab.
- Feature You can now open a settings panel on a Signage Stick with the BACK button on the remote. Change the screen name and orientation there.
- Improvement The player now fades from one playlist item to the next.
- Improvement Apps now fit the shape of their zone. A ticker zone shows only the text.
- Improvement The RSS app now has a portrait layout for tall zones.
- Improvement Full-screen content now fits the shape of the screen.
- Improvement The Weather app now fills the empty bars with sky on screens that are not 16:9.
- Improvement The player now starts about 30% faster.
- Fix Fixed PDFs showing as a black frame on Signage Sticks.
- Fix Fixed layouts inside playlists showing as empty.
- Fix Fixed content sitting in the top-left corner of the screen.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app showing the moon at noon, and flashing while it loaded.
- Fix Fixed a paired screen going back to a pairing code after a short network drop.
- Fix Fixed the playlist out of sync warning showing for a playlist that was in sync.
- Fix Fixed the account and Sign out menus not opening when you collapsed the sidebar.
- Feature You can now pair a screen with its code when Brix does not find the screen on your network.
- Improvement Emergency takeovers now reach screens at once.
- Improvement Long videos now start sooner on screens.
- Fix Fixed playlists going back to the first item every time the screen checked for new content.
- Fix Fixed a playlist stopping on a Signage Stick after a media error.
- Fix Fixed screens showing a message that an image could not load.
- Fix Fixed a screen showing that the player was open in another window after a reload.
- Fix Fixed the live preview and the screen mirror showing an old picture.
- Fix Fixed the Screens page flashing every 10 seconds in an empty workspace.
- Fix Fixed some apps not showing on screens.
- Fix Fixed commands to screens getting stuck in large workspaces.
- Fix Fixed the Screens list not loading in large workspaces.
- Fix Fixed a black screen on the Android player.
30 May
Show a Now Serving number. Staff scan the QR code on the screen and change the number from a phone.
29 May
Add the Clock, Countdown and Days Since apps. Each app needs no outside data.
25 May
See how well a screen is connected. The Health tab shows how long the screen is online and the live response time.
24 May
Sign in with a passkey. Add a passkey in Settings, Security, and sign in without a password.
30 May
Show your apps in your brand colors. Turn on Use brand colors, and every app takes your colors.
- Feature You can now add alt text to images. Brix can suggest the alt text for you.
- Feature You can now mark an image as decorative, so the image needs no alt text.
- Feature You can now turn on accessibility preferences in Settings, for example readable text and larger targets.
- Feature You can now manage your card or bank account and see your invoices in Settings, Billing. You can also send a payment link to your finance team.
- Feature You can now upload your own fonts and use them on your screens.
- Feature You can now upload .vtt or .srt captions for a video. You can show or hide the captions for each video.
- Feature You can now play a GIF a set number of times in a playlist.
- Feature You can now upload video files of many gigabytes.
- Feature You can now invite people from the People page.
- Improvement Screens on networks that block live connections now receive commands and show the right status.
- Improvement A screen that stops responding now shows as offline in about 3 minutes.
- Improvement Approvals now show what changed in a template, with a picture for each change.
- Fix Fixed Quick post not publishing the post.
- Fix Fixed the recycle bin not deleting items permanently.
- Fix Fixed Delete all unused in Files doing nothing.
- Fix Fixed billing showing sample payment and invoice data.
- Feature You can now add the Now Serving app. Staff change the number on the screen from a phone.
- Feature You can now add the Goal Tracker, On This Day and Sports Scores apps.
- Feature You can now add 11 more apps that need no outside data.
- Feature You can now set the colors and backdrop of each app. You can also make the app use your brand colors.
- Feature You can now set the signage app appearance in your branding settings. App previews match your brand.
- Feature You can now connect a Google Sheet or a CSV file to a list app.
- Improvement Every schedule now needs fallback content. A screen does not go blank when no block plays.
- Improvement Web page auto-scroll now uses named speeds in place of a pixel slider.
- Improvement The template editor now has controls for shapes, fill, position and layer order.
- Improvement Date pickers in apps now use the Brix date picker.
- Improvement Files now opens faster when you have many files. Brix loads the list in pages.
- Improvement CMS error messages now tell you what to do next.
- Improvement Alert emails now come as one message when many screens go offline at the same time.
- Improvement The upload dialog now hides the folder picker when you have no folders.
- Feature You can now add the Clock, Countdown and Days Since apps.
- Feature You can now add 19 news apps in one step. Each app shows the RSS feed of a known news source.
- Feature You can now tell Brix that you want a data source connector that is not available yet.
- Improvement The Clock app now finds your location as you type. The app has 4 modes.
- Improvement The news apps now show the real logo of each source.
- Improvement The News and RSS app is now called RSS feed. The author name now shows in white on the image.
- Improvement Signage Sticks now recover by themselves after a player crash.
- Fix Fixed the layout editor saying that no empty space was available when a gap was free.
- Fix Fixed a healthy player reloading again and again.
- Fix Fixed content expiring one day early.
- Fix Fixed browser players showing old data from their saved copy.
- Fix Fixed some failed changes in the CMS and in billing showing no error message.
- Fix Fixed the Screens page not updating live.
- Improvement Start and end dates on playlists and schedules now control what plays on the screen.
- Improvement Uploads now run at the same time. A progress bar shows the real progress of each file.
- Improvement A pairing code now stays valid for 7 days. You can pair the screen on the next day.
- Improvement Empty content lists now show a large button to make the first item.
- Improvement The sign-in page now has a link to sign up.
- Fix Fixed the screen panel showing a green Wi-Fi label next to a red Offline label.
- Fix Fixed the status pill tooltips losing their line breaks.
- Fix Fixed the status pill not showing its fill while a screen switched or downloaded content.
- Fix Fixed browser players loading an old version of the player page.
- Feature You can now remove an app from the My apps grid.
- Feature You can now select many apps in My apps and delete them together.
- Feature You can now open a settings menu on a browser player page with the right mouse button.
- Fix Fixed a browser player page not offering full screen again after you left full screen.
- Feature You can now choose the hour when screens refresh each day. Go to Settings, Playback, Daily refresh.
- Improvement The screen list, the side panel and Quick cast now show a live preview of each app.
- Improvement The Health tab now shows Live, Slow updates or Offline from the live connection.
- Improvement The audit log now names the content, for example Set Test to play Weather.
- Improvement Change content now shows each app with its own icon and color.
- Improvement Pages in the CMS now open faster and do not flash when you change tabs.
- Fix Fixed the Weather preview showing old weather for hours.
- Fix Fixed the splash screen showing a gray square in place of your logo.
- Fix Fixed the screen logs showing sample lines in place of the real player logs.
- Fix Fixed the Health tab latency measuring the wrong connection.
- Fix Fixed the Weather app showing a blank blue sky before the forecast loaded.
- Fix Fixed uneven margins around the Weather app on screens that are not 16:9.
- Fix Fixed the screen preview showing a black frame when no content was available.
- Feature You can now see a Screen connection panel on the Health tab. The panel shows how long the screen is online and the live response time.
- Feature You can now enter the passwords for a recorded web sign-in in the check dialog. Brix checks the sign-in again without closing the dialog.
- Improvement Commands to a screen now arrive at once over the live connection.
- Improvement The Wi-Fi icon on a screen now shows green when the screen is online.
- Improvement Recorded web sign-ins now replay more reliably. A failed check now shows a picture of the page where the sign-in stopped.
- Improvement The RSS app now shows news in a new editorial layout with your brand colors.
- Improvement The template editor now lets you take text, images and lists from a connected data source.
- Improvement Settings, Organization now holds structure, people, roles and feature defaults in one place.
- Improvement The workspace plan now shows as Trial, Monthly, Annual or Canceled.
- Fix Fixed alerts ignoring the notification delay, quiet hours and repeat settings of a rule.
- Fix Fixed the player showing Synced when the screen did not have the latest content.
- Fix Fixed web page snapshots not showing in the screen list and in the expected output preview.
- Feature You can now add a passkey in Settings, Security. Use the passkey to sign in without a password.
- Feature You can now scan a QR code to set up two-step sign-in. You do not need to type the key.
- Feature You can now run a render agent on your own network. The agent shows web pages that only open inside your network.
- Feature You can now hide the preview picture of a web link that shows signed-in data.
- Feature You can now select many web links and delete them together.
- Feature You can now import folders, media, playlists and screens from another signage system in one bundle.
- Improvement The web sign-in recorder now accepts cookie banners for you. The recorder steps now use plain words.
- Improvement Web link previews now load for more sites, for example pages behind a cookie wall.
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