Improvements

• 🎚️ Update channel when Zigbee state is changed on device
• 💡 Support new Zigbee devices
• 🕐 Alerts have timestamps (e.g. License key warning)
• ⚡ Numerous UI rendering optimisations
• ⚡ Under-the-hood performance improvements
• 👩🏼‍💻 Truncate custom code previews
• ↕️ Custom values editor is full height
• 📋 Duplicate option for RFID items, Text Hints, Audio Cues, Masters, MIDI devices
• 🐜 Console and Action debugger show milliseconds in timestamps
• ⚡ OSC performance improvements
• 🟢 Add devices connected to custom code
• ⚡ More accurate timing for behaviour actions when project contains a lot of computation

Fixes

• 🔧 Do not check for expression errors within Computed Value data
• 🔧 Text inputs no longer accept empty spaces
• 🔧 Fix COGS UI opening fullscreen on top of paired display content
• 🔧 Fix loading custom content/plugins in project folders with (, ), *, etc
• 🔧 Fix scheduled delay for behaviour with same name in different scenes
• 🔧 Improve app not closing sometimes

Improvements

• 🗒️ Console formatting improvements
• 💡 Zigbee reliability and performance improvements
• 💡 Allow Zigbee adapters to be relocated between COGS host and Media Masters
• 💡 Allow setting transition time option for Zigbee devices
• 🧹 Remove COGS Remote tunnel from https://account.cogs.show when not available
• ⚡ Flash a custom Media Master firmware version
• ⏯️ Auto-start waits for all plugins to start
• ✅ "Connection required" option for masters

Custom code improvements

• 🤓 toJSON and fromJSON operators for custom code
• 👩🏼‍💻 Display lists/objects on Custom Value scene dashboard widgets

Plugin improvements

• 💾 Plugins can store data to project (Documentation)

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix crash when deleting scene dashboard item
• 🔧 Fix console crash
• 🔧 Do not create a zigbee directory until an adapter is paired
• 🔧 Scene computed values that reference scene. always refer to the same scene
• 🔧 Fix crash on splash screen when closing
• 🔧 Allow COGS to continue loading in case of saved license key from newer COGS
• 🔧 Fix loading COGS on macOS Mojave (with no COGS Remote via internet)
• 🔧 Do not show the diagnostics button for Zigbee patches

Fixes

• 🔧 Rollback recent change for parallel streaming on Media Masters due to an issue causing video playback to freeze in some situations.

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix project not loading on Windows machines without Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) runtime installed

New features

• 📉 System diagnostics in Debug menu

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix crash when closing COGS
• 🔧 Fix status light on Digital Output channel clicking through to channels
• 🔧 Update renamed option variable options

New features

• 🔃 Set layer order of video/images/hints/timer on a Media Master
• ☑️ States Match in When, If/Then/Otherwise, or Loop conditions can check any rather than all values
• 🐞 Action logging tool: Debug menu -> Debugging tools

Improvements

• 🔢 Port numbers for Digital Masters and Sensor Masters are simpler, matching the physical ports:
  • Digital Masters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... becomes 1A 1B 1C 1D 2A 2B 2C 2D ...
  • Sensor Masters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... becomes 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B ...
• 🔃 Allow re-ordering RFID items and DMX states
• 👩🏼‍💻 "Custom values" are now called "Computed values"
• 🔍 Search for:
  • Console
  • Text hints
  • Audio cues
  • Variables
  • DMX states
  • DMX effects
  • Computed values
  • Checklist
• 💡 Option to add all "named addresses" to a DMX state
• 🔍 Button to clear search when there are no results
• 🗒️ Notes for Behaviours and Masters
• 👆🏼 Notes are shown in tooltips for Start/Finish Scene actions, Start/Stop Behaviour actions, and Media Master actions
• ✏️ Options for variables can be renamed
• ⌨️ F1/F2/F3 keyboard shortcut to switch between Connect/Build/Run
• ✏️ Number entry for slider inputs on servo speed, smart lightbulb brightness
• 🟧 Improve orange dashboard button text contrast
• ↕️ Inactive scenes can be scrolled
• 🔗 Link to jump between channel and Master diagnostics
• ➕ Add an Or/If section below an existing Or/If in an If/Then/Otherwise action
• ➕ Lots of small UI improvements

Remote access improvements

• 🧠 Remember current view when reconnecting
• ♻️ Refresh when COGS has been updated or a new project opened

Fixes

• 🔧 Copy notes when duplicating a scene
• 🔧 Your current selection is remembered when switching between most views
• 🔧 Show a warning when another COGS instance is running
• 🔧 Fix incorrect DMX warning with Lite license
• 🔧 Added missing Custom Value dashboard widget warnings
• 🔧 Show warnings for custom Media Masters where appropriate
• 🔧 Hide outdated license key warnings
• 🔧 Update States Match when RFID item name changed
• 🔧 Zigbee adapter or MIDI device not connected doesn't show up as an error
• 🔧 Cancel delays for deleted scenes and behaviours
• 🔧 Reset media playing states when Media Master disconnects

New features

• 🔍 Debugging tools window with a log of actions run
• 📈 Media Master diagnostics - requires firmware 4.10+
• 🎵 If/Then/Otherwise and Loop conditions can check if audio or video is playing

Improvements

• ♾️ COGS Lite works offline indefinitely
• ❓ Confirmation prompt when closing COGS while a show is running
• 🔄 Change which value is updated in an Update Values action
• ✂️ Trailing spaces are not saved when naming something

Custom code improvements

• 👩🏼‍💻 abs transform for absolute value of a number (Check the docs for more info)
• 🌐 Improved reliability of COGS Remote over internet

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed various crashes
• 🔧 Fixed Media Master firmware update layout
• 🔧 Fixed confusing wording for optional scenes
• 🔧 Fixed assets with a % could not be played
• 🔧 Fixed plugin states linked to a value not loaded from project
• 🔧 Fixed styles in DMX Start Effect action

Fixes

• 🔧 Splash screen not showing after closing a project

New features

• ⛔ Set a servo channel min/max
• 💾 Saved positions for servo channels
• 🕹️ Servos appear in Overrides

Improvements

• 🗒️ Console performance and usability improvements
• ⌨️ Keyboard number input for servo positions
• 💡 DMX "Add state" and "Add effect" buttons stay at the top of the list
• ⏯️ More reliable streaming of multiple parallel to Media Masters (Requires Media Master firmware 4.10+)

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed sending overcurrent reset message to DC Master
• 🔧 Fixed scenes scrolling when a scene is renamed
• 🔧 Improved text formatting in scene dashboard custom values
• 🔧 Fixed OSC stability in case of an error

Remote Access changes

• 🌏 URL now has /cogs rather than /ui

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed incorrect error on some MIDI commands
• 🔧 Fixed some MIDI commands not sending
• 🔧 Fixed Media Master connection light alignment
• 🔧 Remove unnecessary data from project pack when switching between "When" and "When value changes" behaviour types
• 🔧 Fixes for scene dashboard values that can be overridden when hardware is not connected
• 🔧 Fixed erroneous error indicator on audio cues

Improvements

• 🗒️ Limit Console messages to the last 500 for performance
• 🚤 Further Console performance improvements

Fixed

• 🔧 Fix text hint sent action input field style
• 🔧 Fix Motor channel direction in Update Value action + tidy styles in States Match, Update Values
• 🔧 Fix dragging list item out of initial scroll view
• 🔧 Fix colour rules editor in case of invalid option value

Fixed

• 🔧 Fix project load error introduced in v5.0.4-beta

Known issues

• ⚠️ Projects do not load on some systems

New features

• 🔍 Zoom in/out for COGS project window

Improvements

• 🐎 Lots of performance optimisations for large projects
• 🎨 Nicer colours for scene dashboard colour rules
• 👆🏼 Click scene dashboard group title to open/close

Fixes

• 🔧 Dashboard input channels are disabled when hardware connected
• 🔧 Fixed colour rules delete button size
• 🔧 Show dashboard width does not change
• 🔧 Fixed "Send OSC Message", "MIDI Message Received", and "Zigbee Action Received" text input style
• 🔧 Fixed styling "States Match" for channels
• 🔧 Scene Dashboard widgets that are disabled look disabled
• 🔧 Improved reliability of COGS Remote with large projects
• 🔧 Custom values code box can be expanded
• 🔧 Fix plugins footer position
• 🔧 Reduced undo to 50 items to keep COGS running smoothly
• 🔧 Fixed DMX Effects step sliders and "DMX: Set Values" action sliders not saved

New features

• 📣 Send UDP messages to devices on the network
• ♾️ Option to disable timer on scenes
• 💡 Lightbulb colour widget for scene dashboards
• 🥞 Option to stack two, three or four scenes on top of each other
• 👀 Option to set default run view when show starts

Improvements

• 🕹️ "Update Values" motor channel uses improved toggle
• ▶️ "States Match" option for "Start Scene When"
• 📈 Support Digital Output channels in the Sensor Master diagnostic view
• ↔️ Scene dashboards do not resize when scrollable

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix custom content device states not showing in Update Values action
• 🔧 Scene dashboard drag and drop fixes
• 🔧 Remember "Open at login" option when switching between Settings tabs
• 🔧 Fix colour rules default value when changing to "Match with value"
• 🔧 Default option value to first option if default is not set
• 🔧 Fix cancelled scene timer continues ticking
• 🔧 Fix list views not scrolling to bottom when item added
• 🔧 Fix DMX Effect drag/drop and unexpected expanding/collapsing
• 🔧 Update volume/fit/loop in realtime from Media panel (regression from v4.13)
• 🔧 Fix text overflowing in left navigation
• 🔧 Only allow valid attributes for lightbulb channel in "Update Values" and "States Match"
• 🔧 "Send MIDI Message" action command cannot be a custom expression
• 🔧 Checklist tabs don't get squashed on "Connections" tab
• 🔧 Add scrollbar to channel editor
• 🔧 Fix scrolling behaviour in Checklist
• 🔧 Fix MIDI devices connected indicator
• 🔧 Fix clipped Remote connections indicator
• 🔧 Fix smart lightbulb channel details type dropdown clipped
• 🔧 Fix loop action "Number of times" input contrast
• 🔧 Fix inputs look editable in "Send MIDI Message" & "Send TCP message" actions
• 🔧 Fix placement of overflow menu in Connect view
• 🔧 Fix error message indicator in DMX build view
• 🔧 Fix: Update Values action motor speed clipped

Improvements

• 🎨 Numerous visual improvements and tweaks
• 🏎️ Performance optimisations
• ✋🏼 Improved drag and drop for behaviour actions
• ↕️ Nicer scrollbars
• 🔧 New On/Off Toggle in Update Values action

Fixes

• 🔧 Start Scene action inside a nested action incorrectly triggered "No actions start this scene" error
• 🔧 Adjustable timer can only be started/stopped when show in progress
• 🔧 Prevent crash when app closing
• 🔧 Fix start trigger lost on duplicated scene

New features

• 👉🏼 Button to test a single behaviour or actions from if/then/otherwise blocks
• 👉🏼 Option to test a single action
• ⏭️ "Skip" button can be disabled on any scene

Improvements

• 💅🏼 Redesigned main navigation
• ⏯️ Show status controls are also available in Build and Connect modes
• 🖥️ Stretch background image on large screens
• 📦 "Browse Plugins" button is always accessible
• ⤵️ Buttons to reset channel value to default or copy default value from current value
• 💾 "Saving" indicator has moved to the bottom left
• 💅🏼 New design for selected scene dashboard items
• 🏷️ Name a custom value before it's added
• 🎨 Settings lists use alternating colours across the app
• 🏎️ UI performance improvements for scenes, overrides and channels

Fixes

• 🔧 Scene dashboard width consistent between Build and Run modes
• 🔧 Fix dragging inside various text inputs to select text
• 🔧 Variable remains selected after being renamed
• 🔧 The "OSC/TCP is disabled" banner is back
• 🔧 Fix and improve the "Stop All Motors" override button
• 🔧 Fix colour input in Overrides not working
• 🔧 Fix text alignment in Settings
• 🔧 Fix crash caused by RFID reader scene dashboard widget
• 🔧 Fix text selection in dashboard colour rules custom code
• 🔧 Checklist always has a tab selected
• 🔧 No more small drop-down menus that are hard to use

New features

• :art: A brand new design. COGS is prettier and easier to use than ever
• :traffic_light: Scene dashboards are super-charged with simpler widgets, more flexibility and colours
• :bulb: Use Zigbee-powered home automation devices such as smart bulbs, plugs and switches
• :musical_keyboard: Use MIDI input and output devices such as musical keyboards or drumpads
• :computer: Send TCP messages from COGS

Now available to all

• :video_game: Remotely access COGS over a local network or internet
• :iphone: Use an iPhone, iPad or Android device as a Media Master

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix custom plugins state lost when pressing "Undo"
• 🔧 Media Master screen options are no longer hidden for Media Masters with firmware older than v4.7

Fixed

• 🔧 Duplicating DMX states and effects now correctly copies the channels
• 🔧 Duplicating a Value now creates a better new name for the copied Value
• 🔧 Update Values action no longer includes options for a disabled external plugin

Fixes

• 🔧 Available channels are consistent with available plugins

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix app updates for production (non beta) builds

Fixed

• 🔧 Issue that stopped COGS auto-updating properly on Windows

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix for showing COGS license correctly in Settings page

Improvements

• 🦀 Improved drag and drop for actions

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix for Set Variable widget on scene dashboards referencing show variables

Improvements

• 📋 Duplicate option for DMX states, effects and effect steps
• 🕐 COGS Remote synchronises time with COGS

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed for "Duplicate at end"
• 🔧 Custom code result does not expand its container
• 🔧 Fix "Open in Explorer" on Windows

Plugin improvements

• Prefer loading cogs-plugin-manifest.js over cogs-plugin-manifest.json

New Features

• ✋🏼 Actions can be moved in and out of If/Then/Otherwise or Loop actions 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
• 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Select multiple channels to duplicate or remove
• ♻️ Scenes can be restarted after they are finished or cancelled

Improvements

• Scene dashboards can include Show variables
• 🔍 Search results are sorted by relevance in channels, media, etc.
• 〰️ Group Sensor Master ports in Devices view
• 💅🏼 Neater timer plugin panel
• ♻️ Allow loops with fixed number of iterations with no delay
• 👩🏼‍💻 Do not show "loop with no delay" error when using custom code for delay value
• ▪️ Black background for Media Master simulator
• 🙈 Hide Media Master screen options for connected Android/iOS devices

COGS Remote improvements

• 💪🏼 Remote UI performance & reliability improvements
• ↩️ Support Cmd/Ctrl+Z for undo
• 🔧 Fixed delays from scene dashboard buttons on a machine with a different time
• 🙈 Hide 127.0.0.1 remote address on Windows
• ⌛ Loading placeholder

Custom code improvements

• ⚡ Show a live result of custom code in the editor
• 🕐 Added timer.duration and timer.remaining (More info: https://docs.cogs.show/custom-code/#expression-context)

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix app logging to file
• 🔧 Fix opening dev tools for custom Media Master content
• 🔧 Fix timer changing after undo
• 🔧 Fixes for timer syncing
• 🔧 Allow importing multiple media files from Import button
• 🔧 Fix plugin states reset by undo
• 🔧 Fix show variable widget value in a scene
• 🔧 Fix "Start on login" on Windows opening old COGS version
• 🔧 Fix Linux app updates
• 🔧 Fix app settings not saved when project closed
• 🔧 Show action error on loop action

Improvements

• ❎ Cancel the show if all scenes are cancelled
• 💄 External plugins can now use custom icons
• 🌐 External plugins can now open links in the browser

Fixes

• 🐛 Demo project template now works properly when selected
• 🔈 Fixed issue where Media Masters "Paired with Display" couldn't select the audio output

This release was superseded by v4.13.2

New features

• 🎚️ Brand new Settings menu
• 🎮 Access COGS from another computer on the network
• 🆘 Find help and documentation quickly from the ? button
• 🚪 Start with the "Escape Room Demo" project when creating a new project
• 🔢 Create multiple channels at once
• 🔍 Search your Overrides

Improvements

• 🚀 A big overhaul under-the-hood so COGS can run much faster
• ℹ️ A more intuitive menu for adding channels
• 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Allow actions to be duplicated "here" or "at end"
• ➕ Button to add actions in between others
• ⬇️ Collapse actions when moving them
• 📈 See all sensor master inputs in realtime in the device Diagnostics view
• 📝 Example show notes for a new project
• 🔢 Smarter naming when duplicating numbered items

Custom code improvements

• 👩🏼‍💻 Access any scene with scenes["SCENE NAME"]

Fixes

• 🔧 Allow custom client content from subfolders
• 🔧 Custom code font rendering improvements
• 🔧 Create any missing folders when loading a project
• 🔧 Prevent scenes from growing and changing width in Live view
• 🔧 Fix UI glitch on If/Then/Otherwise action
• 🔧 Plugin actions are only shown for enabled plugins
• 🔧 Fix pre-show Notes empty when loading project

Bonus content

• 🌎 Try COGS on the web at https://demo.cogs.show/

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix for serial number falling back to MAC address too early
• 🔧 Fix custom plugins not receiving updates

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix loading custom content from subfolders of client_content

New features

• 👋🏼 Example show notes for new projects

Fixes

• 🔧 Persist firewall warning dismissed
• 🔧 Fix internal platform checking
• 🔧 Audio fixes

Improvements

• ⚠️ Add Firewall Warning to checklist in Live view

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix app hanging when closing if internet connection is not stable
• 🔧 Do not reset state that is not writableFromCogs
• 🔧 Audio fixes for looping clips and pausing clips with a fade out

Improvements

• 📓 Show notes are shown when the project is first opened

Fixes

• 🔧 Ensure COGS Master config sent first on connection
• 🔧 Preserve device state when manifest changes on disk
• 🔧 Show project error when sending device event with invalid option value

Improvments

• 🎨 New splash screen layout
• 💬 Allow numbers and booleans to be sent as text hints

Fixes

• 🔧 Only allow variables/states of correct type in value dropdown
• 🔧 Allow increment/decrement in Set Timer action
• 🔧 Do not hide plugin panel if there is plugin state
• 🔧 Plugin action errors are show as project errors
• 🔧 Show device name in Set Device State scene dashboard widget
• 🔧 Fix Digital Input channel Normally open/closed dropdown
• 🔧 Fix crash when custom content directoryName does not exist
• 🔧 Serial number workaround for FEFEFEFE-FEFE-FEFE-FEFE-FEFEFEFEFEFE
• 🔧 Fix device states initially sent to multiple devices
• 🔧 Fix characters encoding problem on splash screen
• 🔧 Custom content settings shown even if not "Connected to screen"

Improvements

• ⬇️ Allow media master firmware to be downgraded

Fixes

• 🔧Serial number workaround for $(DEFAULT_STRING)
• 🔧 Fix "stop all" for custom content with video/audio/images

Improvements

• 🎨 Use purple as default background colour for Media Master

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix custom code with brackets updated incorrectly when upgrading a project
• 🔧 Show Media Master audio output errors

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix video preview fit
• 🔧 Fix media import button

Improvements

• ⚠️ Show firewall warning on Windows when no remote Masters are connected
• ❗ Project errors for custom device states
• 📱 Support for iOS and Android Media Master clients
• 🧩 Plugin icon and description are not required
• ☁️ Media Master firmware OTA upgrade (firmware v4.7 and above)

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix crash when searching for comma/space in icon selector
• 🔧 "Update values" action is always available
• 🔧 Do not show empty "Events to COGS" list
• 🔧 Fix crash caused by missing custom Media Master content config
• 🔧 Add scene dashboard widget for setting device state
• 🔧 Don't render a 0 on the channel detail panel

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix for Media Master page scaling and freezing on some devices
• 🔧 Fix resetting custom Media Master content and plugin states on show reset
• 🔧 Allow decimal channel speeds for servos
• 🔧 Fix updating custom Media Master content states that reference other states

Improvements

• 🏇🏼 Performance improvements in "Setup" view

What's New

• 🪣 Update Channels and Update Variables actions have now been merged into an Update Values action
• 📋 Option to duplicate a variable
• 💅🏼 Tidy up of the Media Master settings page
• ⏩ Option to partially preload all videos on a Media Master so they start playing faster
• 👬🏼 OSC messages can be sent to multiple hosts

Improvements for Custom Media Master and Plugin Developers

• 🔘 Custom channels are no more! Instead, custom Media Masters and Plugins have "state" that can be update directly from an Update Values action
• ➡️ Custom Media Master and Plugin states can be set to a variable, channel, or other device state.
• 📺 Custom Media Masters content now required a cogs-plugin-manifest.json file to determine what state and events can be set. State can be set by COGS, the custom content, or both. Learn more
• ⬆️ cogs-plugin-manifest.json can specify a minimum COGS version
• ⚠️ Custom Media Master and Plugins will warn you of configuration errors.

Custom Code Improvements

• 🕐 now() gives you a UTC timestamp in milliseconds. Works great with the Google Sheets Plugin.
• 👩🏼‍💻 Scene values can reference any other scene value in custom code

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed some issues with COGS getting stuck when starting and closing
• 🔧 Picking a value for a channel or value does not allow you to select one of the wrong type
• 🔧 "Default value" option does not require a minimum or maximum to be set
• 🔧 Starting a behaviour A with just a delay from behaviour B made behaviour B pause incorrectly
• 🔧 show.time_elapsed was often 0 even the show was running
• 🔧 Audio Output option missing for non-custom Media Masters using firmware v4.6
• 🔧 "Stop Behaviour" actions are updated when a behaviour is renamed

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed plugins occasionally not loading on first launch
• 🔧 Fixed incorrect "Loop with no delay" error

New Features

• 📋 Add option to duplicate a channel

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed updating from COGS 4.10

New features

• 🔊 Select between HDMI, 3.5mm and USB audio output on Media Masters. (Requires Media Master v4.6. Contact us to update.)
• 🎲 Pick a random value when updating a channel or variable
• ❔ COGS help and tutorials are available from the application menu

Improvements

• 🍎 COGS for Apple Silicon has arrived! It runs much faster than the previous (Intel) version on M1/M2 chips. Download here.
• ⚡ Performance improvements in "Setup" mode
• 🕐 Time of Day plugin for triggering action at a certain time of day
• 🌍 HTTP plugin for sending HTTP requests to a server

Fixes

• 🔧 Fix error when creating a new project
• 💬 Hints will show new lines on Media Masters

Custom code changes

• 👩🏼‍💻Variables, channels, and events are now "User Values"
• 👩🏼‍💻channel has been renamed to channels
• 👩🏼‍💻box has been renamed to devices
• 👩🏼‍💻 New randomValue function
• 👩🏼‍💻Fixed error when using filter expressions e.g. array[.key == true]

Custom code in your project will be automatically updated.
Learn more

Custom screen developer changes

• New RTSP streaming API for video feeds (Library version 1.4+)
  • Javascript
  • React

Plugin developer changes

• 🧩 Plugins can send events to COGS (e.g. Time of Day plugin)
• 🧩 Plugins can show/hide a window
• 🧩 Plugin developers can open dev tools

Improvements

• 💾 Prevent project file corruption if the project fails to save
• 💅🏼 New icon for DMX
• ❔ Show error when a channel is patched to a custom port that does not exist

Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed sending static OSC arguments
• 🔧 Fixed incorrect value type when custom Media Master event type changed

Fixes

🔧 Fix for newly added COGS boxes not being discoverable by COGS.

New features

• 🧩 COGS now supports plugins which work just like custom Media Master content.
  Currently plugins only support sending config and events from COGS to the plugin.
• 💡We have our first plugin to control lights, etc. via a Philips Hue bridge
  You can grab the code here. Contact us if you need help.

Fixes

• 🔧 Certain names for Media Masters were causing potential local audio problems.
• 🔧 OSC Message Received trigger was available even if you're not using OSC

New features

• 🪄 Menu option to start COGS at login
• 👉🏼 Menu option to skip COGS app updates

Improvements

• ⬆️ COGS app updates:
  • COGS continues loading if app update not accepted in one minute
  • Shows progress bar when downloading
  • Installs as soon as it's downloaded
• ⬆️ Project upgrades: (When your project is incompatible with a new COGS version)
  • Prompt to confirm you want to upgrade your project
  • Create a backup file in the backups folder
• 💅🏼 macOS installer looks nicer
• 📜 Previous COGS releases are available at https://docs.cogs.show/releases
• 🤓 Initial support for Raspberry Pi (Clockwork Dog internal)

Fixes

• 💻 More stable serial numbers. Fixes a handful of installations drifting between licenses
• 🔊 Audio/video files with ? in the name play correctly

• 🎹 Behaviours can be triggered by "OSC message received"

• Performance improvements in expression context creation (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/862)
• Show screen options unless paired with a display (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/864)
• Fix for crash when RFID reader widget on a dashboard references a channel of the wrong type (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/865)
• Fix for custom content not showing on paired display (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/866)

Increase timeout for failed proejct load to 20s (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/861)

Since this release, the COGS beta app is installed in a separate location from the main release build as well as internal or dev builds.

New

• :desktop_computer: Use a screen connected to your computer instead of a Media Master (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/848)
• :magic_wand: Option to automatically start your show when COGS launches (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/841)
• :repeat: Option to automatically restart your show when it ends (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/841)
• :green_circle: A Media Master now indicates when it is initialising with a flashing green light in COGS (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/843)

Fixed

• Issue where sometimes an audio clip wouldn’t stop playing (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs-client-lib/pull/43)
• Issue where actions referencing custom Media Master events could lose their data when making changes to that Media Master’s config (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/840)

• Fix crash in VideoPreview when duration is unknown by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/836
• Set user profile URL on Sentry crash reports by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/835
• show link to get help with custom code by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/837
• Audio acid test to catch Howler volume bug by @tomdixon in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/838
• Use latest cogs libs by @tomdixon in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/839

What's Changed

• fix position of "Import into assets" overlay by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/814
• media import button by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/815
• loop action defaults to forever by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/819
• system/screen power save blocker by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/820
• Toggle boolean value expression template by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/823
• fix import by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/824
• remember media preview output in redux state by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/825
• allow expression to index into strings and arrays by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/827
• all the icons by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/830
• media events by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/809
• Randommmmmmm by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/829
• update cogs-client-react by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/834
• apply refactoring to scene references when a scene is duplicated by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/828
• custom code docs by @chetbox in https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/833

Fix alignment of scene interface item name input (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/810)

New

• Smart unique name (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/803)

Fixed

• Fix loading fonts with special characters (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/801)
• Hide value on send client event if the type is 'None' (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/804)

Improved

• Use validated inputs for number and string override (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/805)

Maintenance

• Remove unused big dependencies (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/800)
• Use new ID for styled-components VS Code extension (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/806)
• Update to cogs-client-react-lib v0.16.3 (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/807)

New:

• Use new license key encryption method which supports fallback license (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/772)
• Prevent license key changes whilst show is running & show license warnings in notification bar (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/770)

Fixes:

• Show Local as option in dropdown on Media panel (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/775)
• Use True/False instead of On/Off for variables with boolean type (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/777)
• Remove Sentry logging for setClients (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/776)
• Cancelling scene now stops any running delays (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/774)
• Tidy up "No valid license" screen (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/771)

Misc:

• Remove skip license key option (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/773)

New

• See the length of DMX effects in seconds (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/763)
• Allow fullscreen for Windows (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/757)

Improved

• Much faster load times when launching COGS for complex projects (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/761)
• More consistent dropdowns throughout the app, many that weren't searchable now are. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/759)
• Remove OSC enabled toggle from the host detail page, and ensure project doesn't save when toggle is changed (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/762)

Fixed

• Opening COGS by double clicking a .cogs file loaded the previously loaded project pack rather than the one you just tried to open. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/765)

Misc

• Sentry logging for Media Master 404s (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/764) (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/766)
• LicenseKeyStateManager tests (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/758)

Fix for Media Masters not always receiving correct media messages (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/760)

New features

• New "Image" actions allow you to show and hide images on Media Masters connected to screens. Images always appear on top, so can be layered on top of videos. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/739)
• "Setup" and "Dashboard" tabs are now available whilst a show is in progress. This allows you to quickly iterate and edit behaviours whilst creating your show. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/738)
• Buttons in the show dashboard can now be enabled before the show starts, allowing things like custom reset behaviours. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/742)
• You can now open multiple Simulator windows at once (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/744)

Improvements

• Video stop/pause/set volume actions no longer take a file path as only one video can be playing at a time anyway (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/746)
• Audio Stop All action now takes a target you can stop all audio on a specific Media Master (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/739)
• You can now see the last sent hint when using the Text Hints plugin (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/748) (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/755)
• UI improvements in the Text Hints section (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/755)
• Sending text hints now adds a message to the Console (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/753)
• New show lifecycle events available when building custom Media Master content (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/743)
• Improved interface for setting custom client events and referring to them in behaviours (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/740)
• It is now faster when pressing "Test Show" (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/732)
• OSC can now be temporarily disabled to prevent outgoing messages until it's enabled again (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/745)
• OSC message input box is now wider making it easy to type long messages (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/736)
• Improved error checking in States Match behaviours when using Scene Variables (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/733)
• Improved display for audio clip paths in Audio actions so you can see what has been selected when the clip paths are long (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/741)
• When developing custom content, the Chrome dev tools will open when opening a simulator allowing you to more easily debug and set the screen resolution etc (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/744)
• New projects create a client_content folder (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/756)
• Set a sensible default output for image/video actions (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/754)
• Don't create backup files when migrating for release version (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/747)
• Pre-show behaviours UI tweak (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/735)

Fixes

• A behaviour with a Delay action inside two nested action blocks (e.g. a Loop within an If) is now "stoppable" from other behaviours (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/734)
• If the hardware serial number changes, the COGS license verification now recovers rather than getting stuck at the "Validating" stage (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/749)
• z-index fix on media panel in dropdown (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/737)

• Motor Channel improvements:
  • New Motor Channels default to full speed
  • Motor Channels now have a "acceleration time" option for smoothly changing speed
  • Motor Channels have a "stop behaviour" which can be set to "freewheel" or "brake"
• Fixed RFID antenna gain not being saved to the project pack
• Audio/video Media Masters will hide the mouse cursor (in case you're using touch screens)
• A number of performance improvements for projects with high-frequency updates. (Expect even more improvements in the near future.)

• New behaviour editor UI and other UI tweaks and improvements (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/705) (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/713) (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/714)
• Options in Options list can now be re-arranged, and are no longer displayed alphabetically (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/715)
• Digital Master support for specifying breakout type and using linked inputs (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/702)
• Fixed: Deleting options sometimes deleted the wrong option (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/715)
• Delay actions are time independent (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/712)
• Bump to latest protobufs and remove support for temperature "severe warning" which is not sent by latest firmware

New:

• Make notes on scenes (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/703)

Fixed:

• Sensor channel graph lines too thin (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/711)
• Asset paths should always be stored in project pack as unix like (note: breaking change if you've setup a project on Windows and used subfolders for assets (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/694)
• Don't allow scrollwheel to alter value for numeric input boxes (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/696) (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/697)
• OSC should be able to send to broadcast addresses (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/698)
• Setting audio volume with a fade time was broken (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/701)
• Should show error for RFID reader channel in Values Match if RFID item doesn't exist (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/699)
• Preserve expression when if/else or loop condition is converted to custom (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/693)

Other:

• Electron 12 upgrade (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/695)
• Don't swallow save project errors (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/708)

• If/else
• Loop
• Start / Stop Behaviour
• OSC
• and more!

• Fix for licence key being reported as invalid if COGS is left on for a long time (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/677)
• Fix for option variable type causing crash (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/666)
• Build AppImage on CI (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/678)
• Support for new firmware (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/665)
  • Support 'flip' for sensor channels (only available with V2 sensor masters)
  • Support for improvements to RFID Master firmware (V2 onwards)
  • Allow 'Analog Output' channels to be controlled from DC Master diagnostics view
  • Support for DC Master overcurrent errors in diagnostics view

• Fix for numeric channel names causing odd behaviour when used in Values Match template (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/663)
• Fix for audio clips not pausing correctly in some conditions. Fix for audio clips sometimes playing in an infinite loop (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/664)

• Disable Sentry Redux plugin https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/661
• Fix scrolling to test scene https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/659

• New UI for channel values, used in Values Match and the 'update channel' action (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/655)
• Settable antenna strength for RFID reader channels (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/657)
• After patching an output channel, its value is sent to a connected box (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/653)
• Fix for duplicate search results (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/656)
• Fixes for scrolling to next correct scene. Fixes to prevent over-rendering of scenes UI during a show. (https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/652)

New features:

• Fade time option in Audio: Pause action
• Mac build can now receive automatic updates

Fixes:

• Sorted a bunch of audio playing edge cases such as fading out during a fade in and playing clips on top of each other, which weren't behaving predictably

New:

• Rows in a show or scene dashboard can now be duplicated
• Added the action 'Box: Send Event' which is for use with custom media master content.

Fixes/improvements:

• The port number is no longer obscured by long client names in the patching dropdown on the channel detail panel.
• The patching dropdown on the channel detail panel is now searchable.
• A new box is given a name on creation now, as with other elements such as channels.
• Duplicating a behaviour multiple times now uses a different name each time.
• Duplicated behaviours now insert next to the source behaviour in the list.
• Certain characters in channel names could break the Values Match template, for example ! or ". Now any channel names can be used without breaking the template.
• Long media filenames now fit properly on Audio actions.
• Scene names can now wrap to two lines in the bottom timeline.
• Fixed a UI glitch when adding addresses to a DMX state.
• Some layout improvements for working with Servo channels.
• 'None' is now a valid 'target value' for an RFID Reader widget and will be highlighted in green when the reader sees no tag.
• Stop adding a 'Copy of' prefix when duplicating behaviours or scenes.
• You can no longer set negative fade and delay times in DMX effects.
• It is no longer annoying to type certain values into the 'delay' input of the Delay action (e.g. 0.01)
• Only show the 'Box Event' template and action when the project has a suitable Media Master added.
• Media Masters with a / in their name couldn't be simulated, they now can.
• The 'Show target value' property of a 'Number box' widget stayed enabled after disabling the 'target value'. It now disables correctly as well.

• Reorderable channel list
• Search bar for channel list
• Use trie search library for more predictable search experience
• Fixes for left panels in Setup to make them all scrollable

• Only use minor and major version num for validating project pack format https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/614
• More useful Testbed project for dev https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/613
• New versioning scheme for internal/beta/release https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/615
• Fix Mac app name to not be lowercase https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/616
• Support for Digital Master port groups for linked inputs and isolated breakouts https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/617
• Reset RFID tag presence when sending config https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/618
• Double click serial number to copy to clipboard https://github.com/clockwork-dog/cogs/pull/619