Vivi Central Change Log

 

Signage Video Caching
Bowen Yangposted on Sep 1, 2026
What's Changed? Video caching: Vivi now downloads each active signage video once and plays a local copy from the box, instead of streaming from the source every time. 30-minute limit: From 1 September 2026, new signage video links are limited to 30 minutes per video. Existing content keeps playing as it does today. Content rights confirmation: When adding a video, a one-click checkbox confirms you have the rights to display the content on your screens. Who does this affect? Super admins, IT admi
What's Changed? Location-Based Management is now available, an opt-in capability that lets IT Admins scope user access by location. Location-scoped Emergencies: Emergency Authorised users can be restricted to specific locations, preventing accidental org-wide alerts. Location-aware Vivi App: Suggested Locations (via SSO groups) or Current Location (via subnets) surfaces the most relevant rooms to teachers and students. Manage Locations setup wizard: A new two-step wizard with bulk CSV upload for
What's Changed? Two new roles are now available in Vivi Central for IT admins to assign. Technician: This role is designed for those responsible for the technical aspects of device management, including device configuration, firmware updates and device installation. IT Helpdesk: This role is ideal for support staff who troubleshoot issues, manage guest access, and perform device reboots. Who does this affect? All customers.
What’s Changed? Guest Codes: New guest codes generated via Vivi Central or the Vivi app, are now six-digit alphanumeric and not case sensitive. Existing codes remain valid until they expire. Who does this affect? All Guest Users.
What’s Changed? Signage: A modern workflow to set up signage, playlists and destinations is available on the portal. Media: A new and improved workflow to upload your media items to be used as signage or splash/emergencies is now available. Images for Splash & Emergency: An ability to use the new media selection workflow has been added to image selection for Splashes and Emergencies as well. Who does this affect? All Presenters with signage permission, Signage admins, IT admins and Super admins.
What’s Changed? Announcements: All IT Admins can now see a log of all Video & Audio Announcements in Announcements > Video & Audio. The "Enable Announcements" feature flag will now enable Video & Audio Announcements in your organization. Organizations using Legacy Live Broadcast will not need to enable this permission to access Video & Audio Announcements. If you are using Legacy Live Broadcast and you would like to switch to the new Video & Audio Announcements, please contact your Vivi represen
What's Changed? All Vivi boxes will be issued with a new SSL/TLS Certificate. All Vivi boxes will restart over the weekend of February 10th to 11th to ensure that the new certificate is applied to running services. Who does this affect? All customers.
What’s Changed? Announcements: View records of message announcements and stop a message in Vivi Central. View message details and destination. Create announcement groups. View details of the group, associated rooms, assign user permissions, and view history. To access: Navigate to the 'Announcements' section in Vivi Central. App Auto Update for Windows: Enable Windows clients to auto update. To access: Navigate to 'Organisations', then go to 'Details'. Info Bar Content: Display different info ba
What’s Changed? Configure Devices: The filtered list of devices must be 500 or fewer before local connection is checked on each of the devices for further action. Who does this affect? All IT admins and super admins of organisation with greater than 500 devices.
What’s Changed? Wi-Fi Easy Installer: Create Installation profiles and add Installers to manage device deployments. Manage approvals of installs from Vivi Central. Product Updates: Get notified about new firmware updates and Vivi Central changes within Vivi Central. Browse through all our Product Change Log and Vivi Central Change log. Who does this affect? All IT admins and super admins.
What’s Changed? Network Statistics: View overall and per-stream network statistics for your organization. Metrics include Round Trip Time, Packet Loss, Disconnections, and Vivi's own Quality metric. These statistics will help you monitor and troubleshoot network performance. Wi-Fi Statistics: View detailed, tabular, and graphical per-device Wi-Fi statistics. Metrics include Signal Strength, Noise, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, and Transmit Rate. This feature allows you to analyze Wi-Fi conditions prese