Classic S4 & S4+: Flying Fox Release

🌟 New Features & Enhancements

🧩 Widgets: Own Your Home Screen

Introducing Widgets—a new way to personalise your CommBox home screen for faster access and a smoother workflow. Add widgets for apps, inputs, websites, and more.

🔹 App Widgets

Instant access to your most-used apps, complete with a live preview and one-tap launch.

💡 How you might use it:
✔ Quickly open the Whiteboard for brainstorming.
✔ Access the Posters App to showcase vibrant, eye-catching content.

🔹 Input Widgets (An industry first!)

Preview and jump straight into a connected device—without opening a menu.

💡 How you might use it:
✔ Launch your MTR or video conferencing device with one tap.
✔ Switch to a connected OPS or laptop

🔹 CommBox Connect Widget

Make wireless connections even easier.

✔ Displays connection details for instant pairing

🔹 Web Widgets (Interactive & Dynamic!)

Turn any website into a widget and interact with it directly from your home screen—no separate browser required.

💡 How you might use it:
✔ Add a YouTube widget or launch the CommBox Signage Player.
✔ Use your own hosted web apps directly as widgets.

🗂 Folders: Keep Your Home Screen Organised

You can now group apps into folders by dragging one app shortcut onto another.

💡 Example:

Create a Microsoft tools folder
Group CommBox apps together
Keep your home screen clean and efficient

📝 Whiteboard: New Features

✏️ Toolbar Improvements

The toolbar has been redesigned for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.

✍️ Write-to-Text Enhancements

Write-to-text is now smoother and more accurate, with improved text size normalisation and list creation directly on the board.

🌈 Rainbow Ink

Make your sessions more colourful—choose "Rainbow" as a pen colour option for fun and visual engagement.

🕒 Fading Pen Tool

Add dynamic visuals to your whiteboard content!
Select an item, tap Fade, set a timer, and watch it gradually disappear.

🧰 Device Menu Improvements

🔌 HDMI Updates

HDMI ARC, HDMI Out, and HDMI Passthrough options now available.

🕓 Manual Date & Time

Perfect for offline use—manually set the date and time on your CommBox.

🔒 Lock & Rename Inputs

You can now rename input sources and lock individual ports.

🧭 Control Bar Enhancements

Added a Lock button for input control
Added a Power Switch for easier device management

🐞 Bug Fixes

🖊️ Annotation Insertion

Resolved an issue where adding annotations to the whiteboard caused conflicts. Annotations now work smoothly and consistently.

How to Update

Check out this article on how up date

https://support.commbox.com.au/migration/knowledge/how-to-update-s4-firmware