Firmware and documentation for DMB300
RELEASE NOTE
IMPORTANT: one specific license key is required per each DMB300 device that must run on Gekkota 5 middleware.
IMPORTANT: After migration, in case using third party software to publish App, your previous Apps may be not compatible. For further information, contact support@qeedji.tech
IMPORTANT: In case you wish to upgrade your DMB300 devices from Gekkota 3 middleware (3.12.57) to Gekkota 5 middleware (5.YY.ZZ), it is highly recommended to contact support@qeedji.tech to know the impact of this migration. Check also the software compatibilities below, and remember that you cannot downgrade to a Gekkota 3 middleware afterwards. The specific DMB300 RMA (or Return Merchandise Authorization) consisting in downgrading the middleware Gekkota 5 back to the middleware Gekkota 3 is not covered by the warranty of the device.
Never make electric unplug on your player while software upgrade is in progress (green led blinking 6 times every 4 seconds) else the player may not be able to work properly
2023-09-05
V5.12.10 download
BUG FIX, NEW FEATURES, MINOR UPDATES
- Add support for swap disk feature
- Add support for Enable Virtual memory on this partition checkbox in the Tools pane of the Maintenance tab of the device Web user interface allowing to activate swap disk feature
- Add support for system.disk.swap.authorized user preference
- Add support for swap tag in the storage tag of the status.xml device status file allowing to watch the swap disk activating value
- Fix: in some case, the URL launcher App could return an error message Content temporarily unavailable (code 4) when playing some images located in Web site sub directories
- Fix: the unsigned CA certificates was not supported
LIMITATIONS
- these video containers are not supported:
- *.asf, .wmv, .vob, .mpg, .mpeg, .m2v, .avi, .ts, .wma
- XPF servers are not supported
- AV commands are not supported
- the audio may be not synchronized accurately with the full HD .ts media when the output resolution is 1920x1080
- transitions between MS-PowerPoint slides are not supported
- the DVB-T peripheral card is not supported
- the bitrate limitation is not supported
- the colour adjustment is not supported
- IR on Jack 3.5" is not supported
- the device must restart at least once with the appropriate WIFI security ciphering value after the security ciphering of the WIFI router is modified
- the GPIO Jack 3.5" can be used in output only when the Phoenix GPIO are configured as disabled
- the playback of live video Web contents is not properly supported
INFORMATION
SUPPORTED MEDIAS
- Devices supported medias and performances download
QEEDJI POWERPOINT PUBLISHER FOR MEDIA PLAYERS
CONFIGURATION SCRIPT
POWERSHELL SCRIPTS FOR AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY APPLICATION SUPPORT
- PowerShell script for Azure Active Directory Application support 1.10.15 download
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- Note for MS-PowerPoint bullets
- Ensure that the appropriate fonts are properly embedded in the content
- Not yet supported in MS-PowerPoint medias rendering:
- Animation
- Effects
- WordArt, shadow
- Images
- Image with filtering
- Emf
- Animated image
- Gif & Png (displayed but not animated)
- Some shapes
- Smart Art
- Multi-colors shape texture
- Text
- Kerning is not supported
- Audio & video
- Vertical fading (in case mixed horizontal & vertical fading)
- OLE injection (MS objects)
- Slide hiding
OLD VERSIONS HISTORY
2023-04-19
V5.11.10 download
BUG FIX, NEW FEATURES, MINOR UPDATES
- Add support for URL launcher
- Simple Web server
- CIFS
- Microsoft 365
- Change: in Pull Webdav (.gap) mode, if the Fail soft mode information content is displayed, the device waits a few minutes before downloading the App again (.gap)
- Change: wait now seven device reboots instead of four, before purging the App from the device and displaying the information message Information - Fail Soft mode
- Fix: playing a MS-PowerPoint media in a secondary zone could make freeze the played content then was leading to a device reboot. The device could take into account the new publication only after the device reboot
- Fix: the activation of a power manager task was leading to a fail soft mode
- Fix: some PDF medias could make reboot the device
- Fix: it was possible to enter a power manager task with no recurrence day at all
- Fix: it was possible to create a standby task with no recurring day
- Fix: in some cases, when navigating with the Web user interface, the user could fall on the
http://<ip_address>/.playout/
page instead of falling on the applicativehttp://<ip_address>/.admin/#/
Web page
2023-02-01
V5.10.11 download
BUG FIX, NEW FEATURES, MINOR UPDATES
- Change: the default value for the innes.image.max_size preference is now 4096 px
- Fix: the UDP stream playback could stop after a couple of seconds with some specific streamer configuration
- Fix: if the audio codec of a .mov media was not supported, the video track of the .mov media was not decoded
- Fix: the WLAN network interface with these security ciphering value was not working
none
WEP
WPA-Personal (PSK)
WPA2-Personal (PSK)
WPA-Enterprise (EAP)
WPA2-Enterprise (EAP)
- Fix: the content of a remote image having a same name could be not updated
- Fix: MS-PowerPoint medias playback
- the video embedded in MS-PowerPoint media could be unexpectedly shifted on the left when the slide aspect ratio was 4:3
- the failover font researching from the Microsoft cloud was not working
- Fix: the scrolling text was not displayed properly when the output rotation was 90° (or 270°)
- Fix: the GPIOs reading and writing on Jack 3.5" connector and on Phoenix connector was not supported
- Fix: in some case, when the output resolution was 90° (or 270°), the test pattern for the WLAN network interface was displayed outside the white outline
- Fix: with some specific output resolutions, the STATE: up or STATE: down information could be not displayed in the test pattern
2022-12-19
V5.10.10
BUG FIX, NEW FEATURES, MINOR UPDATES
- initial version
IMPROVEMENTS BETWEEN GEKKOTA 3 AND GEKKOTA 5
- Change: Web engine Mozilla 47 to Mozilla 92
- Fix: these widgets based on content models that was not supported in Gekkota 3 are supported now with Gekkota 5
- Decounter
- AC3 real Estate