MeshCentral - Account Images, Improved Multi-Device Viewing, Improved Android Agent

This week, we have some fun improvements to MeshCentral with the addition of account pictures. This allows accounts to be better customized and for administrators and chat sessions to see account images. This is a small part of making MeshCentral a great open source manageability solution. In addition to this, the multi-desktop viewer was improved, and a new version of the Android agent was published on Google Play. In detail:

  • Account Images. The latest version of MeshCentral allows users to go in the “My Account” tab and set a square image for their account. You can change or remove the image at anytime and changes to the account image will be reflected on other open browsers in real time (except for Messenger). Setting an image is as easy as clicking on the previous image and selecting a JPEG or PNG file. On the mobile application, you can click on the image and most mobile devices will allow you to use the camera to take a picture. The server stores a 256x256 size image in the database. When importing an image, it’s scaled and cropped to fit that size.
  • MeshCentral Messenger Image Support. When opening a chat session with a remote user or device, the remote site will now see the account image if one is set. If a WebRTC video chat is started, the remote video window will replace the account picture as one would expect. This is a great feature for relationship building when performing support sessions.
  • Multi-Desktop Viewer Improvement. As many already know, MeshCentral can view the remote desktop of many devices at once. This week, this page was improved to allow viewing many remote desktops with each screen aspect ratio correctly maintained. So, instead of aligning all the screens, you can optionally select to have each display be variable width. Mobile devices will be narrow and multi-display desktops will be very wide. A new button is on the upper right of the devices tab to switch between the old and new mode.
  • Device and device group notes on Mobile app. Some people use the MeshCentral “notes” features quite a bit and now, this feature is available on the mobile app. You can edit and save notes of the desktop site and see and edit them on the mobile site. Useful for keeping track of what is going on with each device.
  • MeshCentral Android Agent v1.0.9. Because Google Play reports back all exceptions caused by the Android agent, we can go in the code and fix them as they occur. A few days back a new version of the Android agent was published with bug fixes that should improve the reliability of the agent. The Android agent is still early in its development, many more features and improvements can be made to it.

As usual, feedback is appreciated. If you see any problems or need support on something, please create a new issue on GitHub or help other users. For more information, visit the portal at https://meshcentral.com.

Enjoy!
Ylian
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