Version history

version 2.9029/11/2022

• first firmware version

version 3.001/1/2023

SIP phone

• Change: automatic appending of the SIP server when creating the SIP identity only if no SIP server is specified in the 'phone number / user name' field

version 3.6321/8/2023

Basic configuration

• New: jump to the relevant setting by clicking on a warning or error message
• New: display of a hardware problem if no microphone signal is detected
• New: display of a configuration problem when the fallback to link-local should be turned off or the IP address assignment should be changed
• New: display of appropriate messages if the device or configuration is not suitable for barrier-free access

General

• New: creating/modifying of individual voice announcements in the user configuration
• New: displaying a contact information (installer/service) on the login screen and in the user configuration
• Change: allow special characters for the administrator or user password
• New: indications for a barrier-free access
• Change: support for up to 10 time periods for schedules
• Change: setting option to grant a user access to schedules for continuous opening
• New: setting option whether or not the video direction in the SDP should be adjusted for SIP video connections in one direction

Network

• Change: removal of support for the USB extension port adapter on the AIF hybrid
• New: support of the USB extension port adapter on the USB hub
• New: settings whether the certificate or the CN of the outgoing e-mail server should be verified or not
• Change: sending the dialled call number via UDP status message also for calls via the telephone function
• Change: support of net masks instead of subnet masks

Analogue phone

• New: extended configuration steps for adjusting the expert settings for analogue audio, DTMF, busy tone detection and connection detection

SIP phone

• Change: checking port 5059 when a failed SIP registration returns response code 501
• Change: delayed output of the voice announcement to the remote station if the connection is in the hold state directly after activation of a door opener relay
• New: setting the maximum available bandwidth for SIP connections and adaptive bitrate control
• New: setting the maximum framerate for SIP video connections
• New: acceptation of incoming calls separately adjustable for each SIP account or direct SIP calls with the option to only accept calls from known or specified call numbers
• New: customisable keyframe rate for SIP video transmissions
• Change: update of the validity check of an FQDN
• Change: support of the special configuration of a SIP account also for calls via the telephone function
• New: support of SIPS for TLS
• New: setting option for the preferred payload type for telephone-event, H.264 and VP8
• New: retrying the registration process when a SIP domain is given to query the server via DNS and the NAPTR request fails

Camera

• Change: display of the HTTP URLs when displaying the URLs for camera access if access to the web interface is only allowed via HTTPS, but access to the camera is allowed via HTTP
• Change: adapt webcam resolution also for IP cameras
• Change: adjustable brightness threshold above which an environment previously evaluated as dark is again evaluated as bright
• Change: increase the maximum length of door opener codes that can be transmitted by the IP video software from 4 to 8
• New: provide an XML file to retrieve the video image via action URL for Snom® phones that support this

Display

• New: using reduced display brightness instead of switching off the display when screen saver is active
• New: ESD detection to remedy malfunctions of the display due to electrostatic discharges

Connection

• New: accepting incoming calls with code entry to unlock the connection
• New: silent acceptance of incoming calls with muting
• New: DTMF commands for the remote station: hang up, mute on/off
• New: DTMF confirmation for call chains

Buttons

• New: additional commands for use in the call number: wait, play voice announcements to the remote party, hang up, disconnect not allowed, play standard voice announcements, disable voice announcements for the call, mute call, disable key click
• Change: increase the maximum length of a call number to 100 characters so that longer e-mail addresses can also be used

Relays

• New: sluice function for automatic and delayed opening of a second access
• Change: skipping the webhook for deactivation of a relay if the relay is already deactivated
• New: during a call as a SIP telephone, the acceptance of a code sent by the remote station can be restricted to known or specified call numbers
• New: support of operation as break contact in addition to operation as make contact for all operation modes

Triggers

• New: delayed triggering of the alarm input by setting the minimum edge duration
• New: noise alarm for detection of high ambient noise

Acoustics

• New: display of the detected microphone signal
• New: audio test for loudspeaker and microphone
• New: key click for direct call buttons, keypad keys, door opener button or when triggering a trigger can be individually set
• New: playing the voice announcement set for an acoustical indication in the web interface
• Change: correct output of a configured individual voice announcement for the called party after answering the call
• New: conformity check and activation of language outputs for a barrier-free access
• Change: general on/off switching of the IP echo suppression instead of in the connection
• Change: increasing the echo cancellation duration
• Change: adjusting the analogue audio settings

Diagnostics

• Change: improved handling of malformed SIP messages
• Change: improved handling of log messages with special characters

System

• Change: display of an error message when restoring a configuration file if it could not be decrypted
• Change: keeping the PoE supply of the extension port switched on during a shutdown with the appropriate setting
• New: possibility of setting which elements are to be retrieved during auto-provisioning
• New: support of the hardware version V2 of the Geniatech® DB4 mainboard

Web interface

• Change: scrollable configuration sidebar for browser windows with low height

version 3.7430/09/2023

Network

• Change: support for the integration of an IP camera as a display camera also with an AIF hybrid
• Change: increase the maximum length of the URL for integrating an other IP camera to 200 characters

SIP phone

• Change: adjusted handling on failover to another SIP server
• Change: analysis of the correct SIP server used for registration in case of registration failure

Camera

• New: displaying the IP video window when motion is detected without triggering a call
• New: support for the M3067 IP camera

Display

• Change: reduced brightness must not be set higher than the normal brightness
• Change: adjusting the default calibration of the medium display with resistive touchscreen
• Change: unlocking ESD detection for medium display with resistive touchscreen

Buttons

• New: new command to display the IP video window without triggering a call
• New: new command for sending DTMF codes to the remote station within a connection
• New: new condition to use a direct call button as an action button and execute commands within a connection via it

Acoustics

• New: setting option whether or not a tone should be emitted to the remote station after an incoming call is accepted

System

• Change: improved configuration of the serial interfaces
• Change: improved display of the validity period of uploaded certificates

version 4.001/1/2024

Network

• Change: deactivating the network during the start-up phase for devices with AIF IP
• Change: deactivating the LLDP service when it is not required
• New: possibility to disable the fallback to link-local by pressing the configuration button 6 times
• Change: support for port authentication with tagged VLAN
• Change: setting the VLAN priority when receiving a corresponding LLDP-MED policy

SIP phone

• New: support of SIP accounts on the same SIP server with different users
• Change: using the SIP domain, if specified, instead of the SIP server to assign the SIP account via sip1:, sip2:, sip3:

Buttons

• New: new command to disable the voice announcement in case of a detected audio problem

Phone book

• Change: correction when removing all phone book entries when using the web interface in French

Triggers

• New: automatic triggering of a call or action after system start-up
• New: daily audio test to regularly check the functionality of the loudspeaker and microphone

Diagnostics

• New: display of the current state of the relay contacts when testing the device
• New: display of the arp-cache for diagnostic purposes

version 5.1525/2/2025

General

• Change: automatic saving of the configuration if the configuration mode is terminated by hanging up and not with *

Network

• New: setting the NTP time server to be used via DHCP option 42
• Change: integration of the extension port into the VLAN of the Webcam if the extension port is used as an Ethernet port and a VLAN for the Webcam is used
• New: support for port forwarding to access the device behind a NAT
• Change: change regarding TLS in the email sending settings: smtp does not use TLS, smtp/smtps uses TLS if possible, and smtps uses TLS

Analogue phone

• Change: hanging up on a call via the analogue telephone line if no line is connected

SIP phone

• New: options to set the preferred cipher suites for media encryption
• New: integration of the cipher suites AEAD_AES_128_GCM and AEAD_AES_256_GCM
• New: setting option for the call number that is transmitted to the IP video software
• Change: increasing the timeout for calls on hold

Camera

• New: support for the M4327 IP camera
• New: permanent display of the IP video window without triggering a call

Display

• New: new display functions: logo & phone book, logo & phone book & telephone, logo & phone book & code lock, logo & phone book & telephone & code lock

Buttons

• New: code lock function via buttons for devices without keypad

Handset

• New: support for a handset extension module

Phone book

• Change: allow the user to change phone book entries

Relays

• Change: deactivating a relay in the 'connection indication' operating mode if the connection is cancelled or if the relay was activated manually via a command before the connection, but no connection was established
• New: support for one-time codes for the code lock function

Triggers

• Change: correct deactivation of the noise alarm

Acoustics

• New: support for Push-To-Talk

System

• Change: adaptation when using passwords with special characters
• New: remote management via connection to a Behnke ControlCenter

ControlCenter

• New: one-off or regular transmission of selected configuration options

version 5.267/4/2025

General

• Change: correction for resetting the administrator password via configuration step 73

Network

• Change: ANSI character encoding for UDP status messages

SIP phone

• Change: setting option for normalising the call number
• Change: appending the missing domain to a number to be dialled

Display

• Change: correction when scrolling/triggering when using the phone book function

Phone book

• Change: faster scrolling in the phone book

Acoustics

• New: setting for microphone correction for noise detection

Diagnostics

• New: setting option for the network interface for the network trace

version 5.913/12/2025

General

• Change: correction when programming buttons via configuration mode in the case of 30 or more buttons
• New: introduction of a subadministrator with access rights for selected sections and functions

Network

• New: SNMP support

SIP phone

• Change: providing SIP video images with a timestamp
• Change: enabling VP8 as second video codec by default
• New: setting option for disabling the local port for SIP via UDP/TCP or TLS
• New: new setting to individually define the size of keep-alive packets
• New: new setting to allow early media for group calls
• New: using the Behnke Station certificate as client certificate for mTLS
• Change: automatic adjustment of the keyframe rate for SIP video transmissions
• Change: increasing the maximum length of the 'Phone number / user name' and 'User ID' fields to 100 characters

IP intercom

• New: support for network bridges to implement a multi-network intercom system
• New: firmware synchronisation of all devices in the intercom system
• New: integration option for other SIP phones or IP cameras as IP stations
• New: use of G.722 as the preferred codec for calls in intercom mode
• New: new setting for the volume of the ringtone
• New: automatic video preview when motion is detected
• New: history function for automatic preview and calls

Camera

• Change: correction when saving camera settings in case of manual definition of an IP camera
• Change: granting camera access for outgoing calls while the call is being established

Display

• New: option to deactivate the visualisation of keystrokes for the code lock function
• New: option of randomly distributing the digits of the code lock function

Buttons

• New: new conditions to configure virtual and physical buttons differently
• New: additional commands for use in the call number to activate one of the keypad functions
• New: additional command for use in the call number to change the name show in the display
• New: additional command for use in the call number to activate the phone book function

Phone book

• Change: encoding of LDAP search base and search filter depending on the set character encoding
• New: multilanguage phone book
• New: setting option to use the physical button as OK on an all-in-one communication station

Relays

• New: setting option for checking the identity of https webhooks

Acoustics

• New: setting option to operate the device without hands-free microphone

System

• Change: migration to Kirkstone
• New: triggering a door opener relay via the API with the user password
• Change: correction when saving/restoring the configuration if the administrator password contains a $ character
• Change: repeating detection when extension modules are missing

version 6.1214/2/2026

General

• New: editing and setting voice announcements via configuration mode
• New: new special symbols (relays/voice announcement) for entering phone numbers via configuration mode
• New: configuring additional activation codes via configuration mode

Network

• New: sending TCP messages to an alarm server

IP intercom

• New: setting a preferred view for video display on the indoor station

Relays

• New: time limit for manually opening access continuously
• New: extension of webhook functionality to include the option of sending data as JSON or urlencoded
• New: own designation for door opener relay
• New: automatic opening of access in case of an incoming call of an authorised call number

Acoustics

• Change: improved evaluation of ambient noise

System

• New: SSE (server-sent events) for retrieving events such as detected key presses, DTMF tones or status changes via an HTTP or HTTPS connection

next versioncoming soon

SIP phone

• Change: updating the SIP stack

IP intercom

• Change: troubleshooting passwords containing special characters