Mind Express 5 update (26 May 2026)

Below you can read about the changes for the May update (5.5.1.1621). This update includes mainly fixes. The new features can be found below.

Overview of changes

New

  • Home Assistant has now support for the Broadlink remote. More info can be found on the Home Assistant FAQ-page.
  • Scripting: added events for media.

Fixes

  • Problem with playlists is fixed, once started, they can now be stopped again.
  • ElevenLabs Voices shown in settings window have been expanded. The list of languages we display shows now more than 10 voices.
  • Fixed the problem with the “Play Sound” action if the Mind Express filename had certain accents.
  • Problem with starting Teamviewer from Mind Express fixed (Menu > Help > Remote support).
  • Improved sorting of voices in the dropdown menu in the settings. Now in alphabetical order.
  • Cells with the ‘shadow’ style (can be found under colour settings) were incorrectly printed, now printing
    correctly again.
  • Fixed potential crash in the AI plugin.
  • The “zoom click” action for eye tracking didn’t work when the user had a pause-field on the page, this is now fixed.
  • Issues with grammar no longer correctly being applied to verbs got resolved.
  • Nouns where grammar isn’t applied to, no longer have their label changed (“mushrooms” is always added as plural; now the label doesn’t change to “mushroom”).
  • Bug when opening the settings window in Windows control mode is fixed. This could give a white screen when opened from Mind Express wile in Windows control mode.
  • Problem with a message ending on a newline and not showing this is fixed.
  • Fixed a crash with AI when using special symbols as part of a word (for example “[ello” ].
  • When Google thinks you are a bot and shows a captcha, the captcha will be visible in Mind Express to interact with. As soon as the captcha is resolved you will go back to your pageset.
  • Fixed problem when playing wav files, this could cause a crash.
  • Fixed label position dropdown in styles window, this sometimes didn’t show the top items.