The mesh team has been hard at work and this week it’s Rick Edgecombe’s turn to shine with his release of the latest Mesh Agent for Android on the Google Play store. The improvements touch many aspects of the Android agent and so, we will have to look at this in detail:
- Local video controls and touch/drag video. The new agent improves the “Mayday” video feature with added use controls. The video window that shows the support person can either be on top of all other windows and can’t be user controlled or not on top and user controllable. In this new version of the Mesh Agent for Android, the video window can be put in ether modes and switched on-the-fly allowing the window to be locked on top or fully controlled by the user. The user can also mute and hang-up the call directly from the video window.
- Two way WebRTC TURN & more robust connection logic. This new agent now support improved connection logic and fully supports TURN servers for phones that need WebRTC connections behind proxies. This improvement will make it so that in almost every situation, if the mesh server is correctly configured, the WebRTC connection will correctly establish.
- Local network Android management. You can now setup a username, password and activate the new local management feature on the local user interface. Once active, someone on the local network can access the Mesh Agent’s built-in web server on HTTPS port 16990, login and access remote files, terminal and remote desktop! This is perfect for remote debugging of the device. No server connection needed, everything is done within the local mesh agent.
- Remote desktop speed increase on Android Kitkat. Performing live screen capture on Android has always been very difficult to do. Involving many hacks, the performance of the display capture has always been an issue. Now, the new Mesh Agent support a completely new way to do screen capture with much higher performance for Android Kitkat devices and newer. This new feature gives the remove desktop feature a much better user experience and more interactive feel.
On a separate note, a new vulnerability has been discovered in SSLv3 that made headlines as “POODLE”. In addition, the OpenSSL team has just fixed critical bugs in DTLS which the Mesh Agent makes heavy use of for WebRTC. As a result, yesterday we released Mesh Agent v1.89 on all major platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.1j and SSLv3 compiled out. This fixes all known outstanding security issues and agents are automatically being updated. We also disabled SSLv3 on meshcentral.com and mesh.intel.com. So, we are on top of things. If you own a Mesh server and opted not to get automatic updates, please make sure to manually update to the latest Mesh Agents as soon as possible.
Questions and feedback appreciated,
Ylian Saint-Hilaire
info.meshcentral.com
Rick Edgecombe is the owner of the Mesh Agent port for Android and ChromeOS. Our group provides
him with many Android device to use for testing. Given the agent’s low-level management hooks,
it must be tested on many devices and Android versions.
The Android Agent now has a built-in web site on HTTPS port 16990.
It can be configured using the local agent interface and accessed from the local network.
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