Vivi 1.8.1 | Maintenance
- Offline Mode (Beta) - Once teachers and students are logged in to Vivi, they won’t experience a disruption to Vivi screen sharing if Internet connectivity is lost.
- Multi-Touch Support - Vivi now has the ability to accept touch input from multiple points (i.e. multiple fingers) and support gestures such as pinch/zoom.
- USB Audio Adapter Support - If your classroom or meeting room has a separate sound system, you can now split audio from the HDMI cable and output to a separate device from the screen using a USB audio adapter.
- Added support for ClickView UK.
- Fixed guests not retaining their entered names.
- Fixed signage video links occasionally causing flickering.
- Fixed live sync not working with certain network proxies and certificates in Victoria.
- Fixed splash screens not downloading correctly in certain environments, causing a black screen to be displayed.
- Fixed touchscreen support on macOS not working correctly in different AirPlay modes.
Client 2.12.1 | Extended Desktop
- Extended Desktop Support - You can now use the Windows native controls to toggle between mirror and extended display modes. PowerPoint Presenter View is now automatic with Vivi when you start a slideshow.
Vivi 1.8.0 | Touch Support
- Touch Support - Vivi now supports HID-compliant Touch displays and projectors.
- Enhanced Annotation Suite - You can also now add text in different sizes, change the pencil width and pick from an assortment of colours.
- Chromebook Audio - When you are mirroring your screen using Vivi, and wish to share a video over streaming, audio will now be played through the Vivi-enabled display.
- Improved Feedback Loop - For teachers, the Feedback button has changed to a “Technical Support" button. After the form is submitted, we will create a support ticket, and the teacher will receive a personalised follow-up.
- Control Request Cancelling - You can now cancel a student's request to present to the screen.
- Portrait videos will now play in the correct orientation through video direct and digital signage.
Vivi 1.7.1 | Maintenance
- Digital Signage Enhancements - Digital signage now supports website display, video links and automated resizing of uploaded media.
- Client Proxy Support - The Vivi app now supports basic auth proxy on Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Dashboard Performance Improvements - Faster loading times across all reports.
- Fixed bug with screen capture feature during video direct play.
- Made audio settings consistent across multi-display configurations.
- HDMI compatibility improvements.
- Network switching infrastructure compatibility improvements.
- Chrome
- Support for Chrome OS 65, ARM-based Chrome devices and Movie Mode on Chrome OS.
- iOS
- Support for iOS 11.3.
Vivi 1.7.0 | Digital Signage
- Digital Signage - Every Vivi-enabled screen has the capacity to form a digital signage network. Upload media, create playlists, signage groups, and schedule media for a desired time and length.
- Pause Screen - Presenters can now freeze an active stream on the display while they undertake other activities on the device.
- Local Video Direct - Users can now play local video files through Vivi, from any device, with all the Play Video Direct functionality.
- Movie Mode - When playing longer videos over a mirroring session, switch on Movie Mode to increase the stream buffering.
- Subtitles - For hearing-impaired and EAL students, Vivi’s Direct Video Player now offers a subtitles toggle.
- Proxy Passthrough Mode - To comply with IAM (Internet Access Management) policies in certain states, notably VIC and NSW in Australia.
- Fix occasional crashes on Video Direct page.
- iOS
- Add support for iPhone X.
- Linux
- Add support for Linux OS.
Vivi 1.6.1 | Maintenance
- Playing a video from Google Video is now supported by the Play Video Direct feature.
- During troubleshooting, the ability to do a port check from the client to ensure that the network requirements have been met.
- Audio out of all displays in a room that has multiple Vivi-enabled screens. The default audio is still the primary display, however, all displays can now transmit audio if required.
- Download sys logs from the web console.
- The Client will now remember the last room code to automatically re-join recent rooms.
- Ability to select which teachers can and cannot trigger emergency broadcasts.
- Fix inaccurate session information display on the analytics dashboard.
- iOS/macOS
- Fix proxy preventing Apple AirPlay from working in a room with multiple Vivi-enabled displays.
- Windows
- Fix issue with the cursor, audio devices and right-click paste menus.
Vivi 1.6.0 | Emergency Broadcasting
- Emergency Broadcasting.
- Support for multiple displays.
- Support for the Analytics Dashboard.
- Support for disconnecting students from a room.
- Decrease Video Direct buffering times.
- Fix syncing occasionally not working on startup.
- Fix ClickView occasionally thinking boxes are offline.
Vivi 1.5.2 | Maintenance
- YouTube processing library migrated to a web service, therefore, firmware updates will no longer be required when YouTube updates.
- DNS caching added to reduce the number of DNS requests the device was making.
- Added SNMP, schools with Service Monitoring systems can now add Vivi to their monitoring platforms.
- Auto-negotiation now set permanently to prevent “port flapping” observed on some Cisco switches.
- Fix black screens if the splash screen download is interrupted.
- Fix boxes appearing offline if the display is turned off while a stream is in progress.
- iOS
- Fix AirPlay freezing when sharing content from PowerPoint / Camera Roll.
Vivi 1.5.1 | Maintenance
- Updated YouTube library for continued support of Video Direct.
Vivi 1.5.0 | ClickView
- Now with added support for ClickView.
- New guest mode, add guests to rooms with ease.
- Student request indicator - a hand pops up when there is an active student request.
- Locations - easily find rooms in locations.
Vivi 1.4.2 | Maintenance
- Disabled HDMI-CEC dependency to prevent sleep mode disconnections on certain displays.
- Disable profiling acknowledgements during normal usage.
Vivi 1.4.1 | Maintenance
- Now with added support for ClickView.
- New guest mode, add guests to rooms with ease.
- Student request indicator - a hand pops up when there is an active student request.
- Locations - easily find rooms in locations.
Vivi 1.4.0 | Splash Screens & Room Codes
- Presenters can now access room settings to temporarily set privacy and access.
- Room listing now shows if a room is available, unavailable rooms cannot be accessed.
- Students now have the same controls as teachers, these become available when a teacher grants access or the room is "open access".
- Students can now Request Access, access requests appear at the top of the presenters list.
Vivi 1.3.1 | Maintenance
- Network performance enhancements.
- Added box support for Windows Profiling toolkit.
- Minor maintenance items.
Vivi 1.3.0 | Windows Optimisation
- Windows
- The rendering pipeline has been re-engineered to reduce latency.
- Frame rate increased to 30FPS, allowing for smoother playback.
- Processing has been shifted to the GPU, reducing high CPU usage.
Vivi 1.2.12 | Maintenance
- macOS
- Support for macOS 10.12.
- Fix artifacting on some older Mac models.
- iOS
- Support for iOS 10.
Vivi 1.2.11 | Lion
- Replace continuous logging with sending logs in bulk once per day.
- Button in webconsole to send logs immediately, for support purposes.
- Ability to switch between TLS and NTP (with up to two nameservers) for time synchronisation.
- Ability to stream in 1080p.
- Prevent saving with blank fields in static network config.
- Fix Video Direct not working for all YouTube videos.
- Fix certs not always being applied.
- Fix boxes not always connecting after network is down for an extended period.
- macOS
- Support for macOS 10.12 Beta.
- Backwards compatibility with macOS 10.9.
- iOS
- Support for iOS 10 Beta.
- Android
- Support for Android (5.0+).
Vivi 1.2.4 | Unicorn
- Allow setting nameservers with static IP network configuration.
- Details provided with ping results to help with solving network issues.
- Automatically stop stream when streaming disconnects explicitly.
- Increase AP timeout to 10 minutes, instead of 5.
- Under the hood changes to support bulk administration in the future.
- Improve boot times significantly.
- Make it clear in the webconsole that the box will restart automatically after updating.
- Fix ping requests being rejected by picky gateways.
- Extend request timeouts in case of temporarily slow networks.
- Fix saying "Something went wrong" when deleting a cert, even though it worked.
- Fix update page in webconsole not showing an in-progress update after leaving the page.
- Fix not converting a DER cert to PEM automatically.
- Fix regression with OS sometimes not registering certs.
- iOS
- Support for iOS 9.3.
- Detect AirPlay video mode.