ConnectBox desktop admin tool -> Electron executable for Windows, Mac and Linux
Already compiled installer for Windows is available here: https://storage.googleapis.com/www.qombibox.net/cbox-admin-setup.exe
disk image for macOS here: https://storage.cloud.google.com/www.qombibox.net/ConnectBoxDesktopAdmin-darwin-x64.dmg
and a zipped version, i. e. a smaller size download (must unzip manually): https://storage.cloud.google.com/www.qombibox.net/ConnectBoxDesktopAdmin-darwin-x64.zip
When compiling from source code it is necessary to replace the Drivelist module with a precompiled version from here: https://github.com/resin-io-modules/drivelist/releases
- Install from one of the installers above
- Insert an empty USB stick (or >200 MByte free space) while the ConnectBox Desktop Admin software is running. Select this USB, once it has been detected by the software.
- Do NOT yet manually configure anything on this USB! Instead select "Settings" from the top left menu and then select the entry "Install sample test files on USB: ____". Once the download and unzip has finished, then the software will automatically reload. Now check the playback of various media types, like audio / video / ePub / e-Learning / read-out-loud. Check out demo content in several languages (English and Arabic) and select some additional demo books (from the top left menu)
- add your own media content by using the available plus buttons. Please note: First copy your own media content to the USB stick (and probably also copy suitable image files, to be used for each entry).
- Test your content on a Connect Box simply by inserting it on a ConnectBox. Make sure that the ConnectBox has been configured to use "Static host" mode.
Any existing LibraryBox installation (on a USB stick) is automatically detected by the ConnectBox Desktop Admin software (incl. earlier versions of the BibleBox). You can then select to "upgrade" the USB format to the new ConnectBox format. Please note: First make a backup copy of this USB stick.
Any "upgraded" content only works on the LibraryBox hardware, however. There is still an option to create another ConnectBox installation on the very same USB stick and have this usable in parallel with the LibraryBox installation (both installations completely independent of each other, but potentially still using the same media content).