Classic S5: Flying Fox Release
Flying Fox: Elevate Your CommBox Experience
The Flying Fox release is here, bringing a whole new level of customisation, security, and user experience enhancements to CommBox Classic S5. From powerful widgets to advanced security features, this update puts control back in your hands.
🌟 New Features & Enhancements
Widgets: Own Your Home Screen
We’re excited to introduce Widgets, a brand-new way to personalise your CommBox home screen and improve workflow efficiency. Widgets provide instant access to essential apps, inputs, and websites—helping you get more out of your CommBox, no matter the setting.
🔹 App Widgets
Get instant access to your most-used apps with App Widgets, providing a preview and acting as a shortcut for quick access.
💡 How you might use it:
✔ Create a widget for the Whiteboard – for fast brainstorming sessions.
✔ Create a widget for the Posters App – for quick reference to colourful content.
🔹 Input Widgets (An industry first!)
Live stream your connected device directly in a widget on your home screen.
💡 How you might use it:
✔ Create a widget for your MTR or video conferencing device for seamless meetings.
✔ Create a widget to quickly switch to a connected OPS or laptop, with a live preview.
🔹 CommBox Connect Widget
Easily connect wirelessly to your CommBox with the CommBox Connect Widget.
This widget provides:
✔ Connection details for instant pairing.
✔ A live preview of the connected device, so you know exactly what’s on screen.
🔹 Web Widgets (Interactive & Dynamic!)
Turn any website into a Web Widget, allowing you to interact with it directly from the home screen—no need to open a separate browser.
💡 How you might use it:
✔ Experience CommBox Signage playing directly in a widget on your home screen
✔ Host your own web apps and use them seamlessly as widgets.
🔐 CommBox OS Experience: Secure & Seamless Control
The new CommBox Experience enhances security, flexibility, and usability while maintaining seamless operation. With CommBox Lobby, you can ensure maximum security while still showcasing the powerful functionality of your device.
🔒 What is CommBox Lobby?
CommBox Lobby is a cyber-secure mode that ensures all interactions happen within a protected session—ideal for shared and public spaces.
🛡 Secure Sessions for Every User
🔹 CommBox Account Session – Sign in using your CommBox Account to access personalised settings and cloud integrations securely.
🔹 Express Session – Start a secure session without signing in, perfect for quick, on-the-fly collaboration without leaving a digital footprint.
🔄 What Happens When a Session Ends?
Once a session is closed, everything resets:
✅ All data from that session is cleared
✅ Whiteboards are cleared
✅ All Apps and websites are logged out
✅ Cloud connections are closed
✅ Screensharing is disconnected
This ensures no private or confidential information is left behind, keeping your device and data secure at all times.
🌟 A Seamless & Secure Meeting Space
Once the session ends, users return to the Lobby, creating a consistent and secure meeting space—every time.
With CommBox Lobby, security and flexibility go hand in hand, ensuring that every session is protected while maintaining ease of use.
🎨 Presets: Customisation Made Easy
With the new customisation options that widgets and folders bring, we’ve made it easier to get started with ready-made configurations:
✅ Preset home screens – Select from a collection of thoughtfully designed home screens.
✅ Preset side menus & wallpapers – Quickly apply themes that fit your space.
🌟 CommBox Experience: Configure Once, Then Roll Out to All Your Devices
With all the customisation now available in CommBox OS Experience, we have introduced the ability to export settings as a configuration file.
✔ Load this file onto other Classic S5 devices in your fleet.
✔ Save time by pushing configurations in bulk from CommBox Manage.
🖊 Whiteboard: Smarter, More Intuitive
The CommBox Whiteboard just got a major upgrade, enhancing creativity and productivity:
✅ Add multiple images at once – Whether it’s a rugby team lineup or project visuals, bulk add images seamlessly.
✅ Pressure sensing – Experience more natural and precise writing.
✅ Personalised whiteboard settings – Your preferences are remembered when you log in with your CommBox Account.
🔧 Additional Updates
✔ Lock & Power buttons in the control bar – Quickly secure or power off the device when needed.
✔ CommBox Connect Update – Upgraded to the latest version of CommBox Connect
✔ OfficeSuite App – Open all your Microsoft documents directly on the screen, annotate over them, and save them.
✔ Google - All the latest patches from Google up to February 2025
🐞 Bug Fixes
✅ Gesture Issue – No matter which gesture mode is set in the setup wizard, CommBox Experience now handles it without issue.
✅ HDMI Out Issue – Resolved to ensure seamless output functionality.
✅ Touch Issues – Fixed touch responsiveness in CommBox Connect 5.10.
✅ CommBox Manage Integration – Now fully integrated with CommBox Manage, ensuring smooth operation.