Flash TPN Box
The free Mac app that updates a Paintball Network field box over your field Wi-Fi.
What it is
Field boxes are the buzzers and gate readers that run a match. When we release an update for them, this app is how you send it to a box — over the same Wi-Fi the boxes are already on. No cables, no developer tools.
The app does not contain a firmware update, and it does not contain any password. You supply both: your event organiser gives you the update file for each box and the update password. That is why this download is open to everyone — on its own it does nothing.
Opening it the first time
- Unzip the download. You will get Flash TPN Box.
- Move it wherever you like — your Applications folder or your Desktop.
- Right-click it and choose Open, then click Open again. Do this the first time only. Double-clicking a brand-new app that did not come from the App Store makes macOS refuse it; right-click → Open is how you tell macOS you meant it.
- Every time after that, open it normally.
Using it at an event
- Put your Mac on the same field Wi-Fi as the boxes.
- Power the box on and give it about ten seconds to join the network.
- Put the update file your organiser sent you in the same folder as the app.
- Open the app. It searches the Wi-Fi and lists your boxes by name. If the list is empty, press Find boxes.
- Click the box you want. There is no address to look up or type.
- Type the update password and press Flash.
- Wait for it to finish. Do not power the box off while it is updating.
Requirements
- macOS only. There is no Windows version of this app yet.
- You need to be on the field's Wi-Fi network — this does not work over the internet.
- You need the update file and the update password from your event organiser. Neither is on this page, and neither is inside the app.
Latest field box release
2026.08.30 · released August 30, 2026
Gate counts only a button press. Walking past a reader with a wristband no longer puts a player on the field.
- Press the button at the gate. If the band has already been read it is attached to that press; if not, the box tries a read right then.
- A player is added to or removed from the field only by a press, so a spectator or a passing player can no longer change the count.
- The gate light follows the box's real state instead of the last thing it happened to hear.
- Directors update boxes with Flash TPN Box over the field Wi-Fi.