Fantastic news! Our ZBOS software is all set for the next phase. To make your work with our software easier, to significantly increase the usability and offer you a wide range of new features, we are launching our spring release. We are strengthening our no-code software with this release, based on your input and the latest high-tech evolutions.

Amongst other features we have enhanced our Composer with new functionalities, including a monitoring and date-and-time block. Also, the ZBOS Dashboard got an upgrade with new widgets and several new filter options. We have taken our time to release this software update so that today we can take a big step forward together. You can find all the optimisations, new features and removed bugs for controlling your devices in the list below.

Composer:

• new block to create Monitoring events
• new Date & Time block
• add start and stop blocks automatically
• add metadata to a composition: description, tags, and favourite flag
• added loop and interrupt support to Animation block
• allow decimal values on text input prompt
• added keyboard shortcuts for common tasks

Task Manager:

• new webhook trigger for externally triggering ZBOS from anything
• new description field to describe a Task Manager entry

Dashboard:

• add and configure Monitoring widgets
• allow adding multiple Composer widgets, which can be displayed and filtered in a number of ways
• add your own title to widgets
• embed external webpages via the new iframe widget
• embed Kiosks via the new Kiosk widget
• embed GoVirtual via the GoVirtual embed widget
• add your own custom widgets with custom HTML/JS/CSS widget

Home Automation:

• added OpenHAB integration
• added automatic smart device discovery in ZBOS Control
• Generic JVM version of RAIL for IoT hubs

Dialog System:

• Czech & Hebrew language support
• Better support for alternative dialog systems

New integrations:

• WEIGL Control system
• PicoVoice ASR
• ReSpeaker USB Mic Array support

Other improvements:

• Redesigned user menu in ZBOS Control
• Allow managing multimedia from every menu that uses multimedia
• Better robot info screen
• Better language selection
• Improved global variable management
• Easier to activate Scheduler, and see which Schedule is currently active
• Kiosk editor preview is now a fully functional Kiosk
• Camera improved brightness and fps range
• Huge number of bug fixes and other general improvements