Changelog

Warning!!!
Versions 8.x are not compatible with earlier versions and it is not possible to connect to servers running lower version or to use the playback feature.

Line Linux 8.1.1 x64 (15.05.2023).

New functionality:

• Determination of the type of number (#21310).
• Added channel resolution in the “Monitoring” tab (#17227).
• Event templates (#21003).
• Camera preview when editing view (#17974).

Changes/fixes:

• Play sound through RDP connection (#21468).
• Scaling captions in camera cells (#3949).
• Server name in the authorization window (#19673).
• Option to view a channel's settings if it’s disabled (#19077).
• The “Management” item is missing from the context menu in network connections (#19673).
• Viewing the archive from a folder doesn’t work (#20618).
• Select folder when exporting an archive (#21675).
• Error receiving the video stream from Line 7.х.х software (#21678).
• Management>Video>Camera>Information - deleting users

Mobile clients:

• Management>Video - widget "+" (#21298).
• Management>Users - style update (#21455).

Recorders

• Incompatible protocol version after factory reset (#21255).

Line Linux 8.1.0 x64 (20.04.2023).

New functionality:

• Vehicle number plate recognition (#18678).
• “Number plate recognized” response (#19698).
• Two-way audio with Line cameras (#3289).
• “Send message in Telegram” response (#19375).
• Transport settings for Telegram (#19383).
• Admintool, the display of information on the HDD/SD file system has been added (#19087).
• Human Detection settings* in “Management” — only for Line 4MP Bullet cameras (#19969).
• Delineation for Human Detection* in the “Observer” cell — only for Line 4MP Bullet cameras (#19970).
• "Play by i-frame" checkbox added to the server connection settings (#20343).
• Motion detector sensitivity setting added (#20231).
• QR (#21041).
• Management − SN and smartctl output (#21287).
• Double click on the record on admintool to connect to server (#21340).
• Filter search in management (#18974).
• Group vehicle number plates in the archive results (#20954).
• Creating templates for events (#13687).
• Add OSD image to the archive (#20943).
• Support for number plates from Abkhazia, Ossetia, DPR, LPR (without region).
(#21519).

Changes:

• Man. > Video/Audio (#21104).
• Accurate filters: direction and colour search filters do not work (#20900).
• Video analytics loads slowly when the camera is full-screen (#21179).
• Accurate filters: loading constantly hangs on the timeline (#20801).
• Video analytics loads slowly when the camera is full-screen (#21252).
• Reactions “number determined” and "send to Telegram” do not work correctly (#20876).
• The condition “any number NOT included in any list” provides all numbers in a row (#21269).
• Changing playback speed by scrolling. (#21325).
• Man. > Monitoring (#21105).
• “No recording” appears when viewing 1 camera (#20659).
• The “Day” filter syncs with the position on the timeline (#21351).
• Filter “Week, All time, Interval” (#21352).
• Frame rendering algorithm improved (#20529).
• Precise filters in the archive fixed (#20514).
• Persistent archive decoding (#20644).
• Optimization of the interface for 1366 x 768 resolution (#18392).
• Fixed the alarm monitor, which was broken in the latest versions #20666).
• Server CPU continues to load when number plate recognition is disabled (#20710).
• Staying in Manage for a long time and then exiting caused an error and closed Observer (#20394).
• Viewing the archive from a folder didn’t work (#20618).
• Change commas to dots when entering an IP address (#20036).
• User group name doesn’t change (#20674).
• Crash when switching views (#20677).
• Reset “Monitor position” (#20368).
• List of number plates not saved (#20543).
• Recording mode on the second stream sometimes isn’t saved (#20731).
• Display time widget in precise archive filters (#20748).
• Number plate recognition algorithm improved (#20893).
• Automatic number plate recognition module − optimization of the editor interface.
• Automatic number plate recognition module − expansion of the protocol, OSD settings added.
• Get preview conditions − improved mechanism for quickly loading images from cameras when switching modes in Observer (#20403).
• Added the ability to set font size in Observer client settings (#20572).
• Observer did not verify the on/off settings of video analytics with the configuration file within the session (#20711).
• Cameras in multiview froze when connected to a group and the signal was lost (#20911).
• Setting views for user groups does not work (#18888).
• Timeline transparency mode implemented in “Playback” (#18129).
• Universal message dialog boxes (#18809).
• Option to turn on the sound from the camera settings page through the icon in the first stream cell (#16263).
• Correct error handling when the connection limit to the camera is reached (error and status display).
(#18426).
• Export archive, warn that the operation will be interrupted when closing the application (#19064).
• Improvement of the camera selection dialog box for exporting the archive when connecting to a group of servers (#18851).
• Type name is not saved in the type loop (#18850).
• Hidden settings, analysis of the value of the cameras-text-shadow parameter.
• Monitoring, display disk queue length as a percentage (#17607).
• Changing ports, restarting the kernel for the changes to take effect (#17429).
• The application crashes during playback (#19300).
• Changing “Send email” response settings (#19403).
• Playback cell in Observer, the cursor position is reset when switching streams (#19538).
• Sound delay on playback increases over time (#19436).
• PTZ control buttons are displayed when the mouse is over a cell (#18070).
• Flip the camera/image, checking function support (#19313).
• Updating server name if it was unavailable when added to the list of servers (#19337).
• The alarm monitor displays all cameras in the first stream (#19307).
• Fields for specifying login and password added in the “Send HTTP request” response settings (#19604).
• PTZ camera management, improved functionality (#19400).
• Connection hangs after authorization (#19296).
• The observer window does not close when started with --simple --archive keys (#19841).
• List of servers, user password is not saved when the server is in more than one group (#19267).
• Export the archive, view the resulting file through Windows Media Player, view on mobile devices without third-party software (#18928).
• Staying in Manage for a long time and then exiting caused an error and closed Observer (#20394).

Mobile clients:

• MyVMS no display selection after group creation (#21334).
• Don’t block the screen by default (#20715).
• MyVMS iOS hangs when working with the archive for a long time (#20919).
• The slider doesn’t jump along the timeline if the sound on another camera is on (#21386).
• Management > Licensing − key activation (#21395).
• Archive: The filter in analytics can’t be removed (#20897).
• Improvement of the send tabs (#21439).
• Compact side menu in Manage (#20337).
• Optimized Manage → Users page (#20458).
• Swipe the tabs Manage → Users (#20779).
• Cameras didn’t load when waking the phone from sleep (#20422).
• The cameras don’t scroll in the archive when you change view (#20678).
• widget “+” (#20518).
• Optimization of the Manage load (#20939).
• Manage − User − Views − Select view (#20481).
• Long loading of local views (#20812).
• Adding cameras by IP address range did not work (#20501).
• Autoconnect from deep sleep (#20937).
• A created user only appears in the list after closing and then opening Manage again (#20944).
• The keyboard covers the password field (#19948).
• Option to save a frame to the device implemented (#17855).
• Option to hide the top toolbar added (#18299).
• Digital zoom functionality improved (#15806).
• Archive export dialog box updated (#18305, #19053).
• The application hangs while using the sidebar when connecting to a group of servers (#19039).
• False trigger of a timeline position change when releasing the finger after scrolling (#19372).
• New dialog box for displaying management configuration errors (#19175).
• New style for the authorization dialog box (#19056).
• Swipe up/down in multiview to hide/display the top toolbar (#18307).
• Collecting client sysinfo with observer tools.
• Admintool, edit network settings dialog box changed (#19404).
• Get/update camera statuses on the summary video page in management (#19469).
• “Management — Users” page updated (#19968).
• “Management — Users — Devices” page updated (#19552).
• “Management — Users — Access” page updated (#19871).
• “Management — Users — Rules” page updated (#19873).
• ynDNS settings page updated (#19714).
• Network settings page updated (#19829).
• Archive settings page updated (#19652).
• Audio settings page updated (#19864).
• Video settings page updated (#19359, #19654).
• New camera search dialog box (#19988).
• New dialog box for adding PTZ cameras (#19616).
• New choose path dialog box (#19653).
• Drum widget for editing the date (#19304).
• The interface does not display correctly after changing screen orientation (#20090).

Recorders, cameras:

• The camera disappears from the list after making changes to its settings in management (#20729, #20849).
• The view on the recorder is reset (#21021).
• GUI fixes (#21214, #21215, #21216, #21218, #21219).
• HUAWEI E3372-325 doesn’t work on Line XVR 4N H.265-N (#20958).
• Honest camera name in ONVIF-research (#21228).
• Recorder as an NTP server (#12408).
• Option to configure a pool of NTP servers through admintool (#10788).

Line Linux 8.0.9 x64 (04.03.2022)

Desktop:

• Cycle monitor redesigned (#16267).
• Detection zone editor refactoring (#18136).
• Frame rendering optimization (#17594).
• Export from View archive cell in the Observer mode (#17158).
• Export settings dialog, the current selected camera is selected by default (#17158).
• Application fails when exporting video + audio (#18638).
• Shortcuts in the archive, Ctrl+Right and Ctrl+Left take 30 seconds (#18605).
• Correct operation of archive viewing with audio stream only (#18577).

Android:

• Application doesn’t create the Movies folder during export (#18632).

iOS:

• Application crashes when entering the Playback.

Line Linux 8.0.8 x64 (24.12.2021)

• Reactions: Camera displays on alarm monitor: parsing for selected channels error has been fixed (#18384).
• Reactions: Sound notification stops working (#18011).
• Reactions: Option to send an email without a frame (#17793).
• Delete View error in the View editor has been fixed (#18199).
• Waiting timeout has been increased when determining server availability from Line Cloud (#18183).
• Archive view in Observer cell: type of cell used to change when exiting full screen view (#18072).
• Interruption of connection to a group no longer leads to a failure (#18141).
• Device permission settings: no camera preview for limited users (#17921).
• Option to interrupt connection to an unavailable server (#18141).
• Window border style has been changed (#18167).
• Short delays in sound played from cells when system has a high load (#18391).
• Export error when there are bad frames with zero resolution (#18326).
• Export error when part of frames is missing (#18314).
• Viewing camera information from a cell is available only to users with Camera Assignment permissions (#18267).
• Slow connection to localhost (#17824).
• An option to buffer video stream has been added when viewing cameras in Observer (#17816).
• Archive view: RAM use has been reduced when scrolling through frames with a mouse wheel (#18133).
• Archive view: data load has been optimized when the user changes cursor position (#18131, #18132).
• Error of camera preview in dialogs has been fixed (#17749).
• Server auto search algorithm has been optimized (#18050).
• Load/decode/update icons have been added for archive view from the Observer cell (#18130).
• Board group in the administration dialog menu has been deleted (#18089).
• Application failure when editing group types in network connection dialog (#18192).
• Storage of size and position of administration window; verification of falling outside the monitor (#17979, #18083).
• Observer version shown on console when command line arguments used are -v or --version (#18171).
• admintool: device search in network has been speeded up.
• admintool: sometimes there is an authorization error when correct information is entered (#18287).

Mobile:

• Some dialogs used to open in the background and were not displayed (#18194).
• There is now an option to export a list of servers and groups (#17030).
• Selected file name was ignored when saving sysinfo or backup files (#17771).
• Application failed when DevLine cameras were connected if restriction by number of channels was triggered (#18195).
• Pause camera channels when collapsing the application (#17960).
• Dialog style was adjusted for date selection when setting up export.
• There is now an option to save sysinfo/backup files in a public location (#18026, #18313).
• Android: there is now a copy/paste feature for text fields (#16729).
• iOS: Application failure when changing user.
• iOS: Available types are limited to eight cameras.

Line Linux 8.0.6 x64 (01.11.2021)

• Export/import the list of servers from a PC to a mobile device (#10222).
• Change the Fullscreen cell stream when the client settings “Open a second stream in fullscreen” option is enabled (#13743).
• Automatically hide the timeline in Playback (#13831).
• Bugs when handling command line arguments fixed (#16133).
• Move cameras in the management dialog tree (#17091).
• Ability to create a new view directly from the view selection dialog box (#17157).
• The menu of the highlighted cell now only appears when you move the mouse over it (#17271).
• Alarm monitor: ability to display cameras missing from the view (#17377).
• Group cameras on the Playback timeline by server (#17387).
• Play sound in Playback from one camera while viewing another camera in fullscreen (#17390).
• Adjust the video playback speed with the mouse scroll wheel when over the Playback cell (#17391).
• Save/restore the size of Playback timeline panels (#17522).
• Incorrect changes to the size and position of windows (#17583).
• Switch camera stream by clicking the icon (#17586).
• Save/restore the width of the camera selection panel (#17683).
• The method for loading camera preview was changed (select camera dialog, management) (#17749).
• Date/time overlay when saving a frame (#17757).
• The app crashes when entering Manage from the network connections dialog (#17825).
• Playback from a folder: select the type of view when there are no connected servers (#17879).
• Correct camera name when viewing the archive from a folder (#17892).
• Playback: the cursor does not change position when you click on the timeline (#17966).
• The app crashes when using navigation keys in Manage (#18046).
• Optimization of Playback performance when changing playback mode.

mobile:

• iOS: disable screen timeout (#17077).
• The height of the timeline is adjusted when you change phone orientation (#17669).
• The list of servers is deleted when the app is loaded from the device’s memory (#17808).
• The mobile app crashes when using the camera search sidebar (#18044).
• For mobile clients with version 7, the maximum frame rate is reduced to 1 fps

Video recorders:

• Manage − server page: the Utilities tab is not displayed (#17553).
• Local configuration of monitors in management with a non-standard port value (#17553).
• The app crashes when the Analytics tab is selected in Manage (#17920).

Line Linux 8.0.5 x64 (05.10.2021)

• View Archive crashes when assigning a camera by dragging it from the server panel (#17930).
• View Archive: the filter panel is hidden when changing user.
• View Archive crashes when the No Camera cell is selected (#17877).
• Timeline is hidden when viewing the archive in the Observer cell (#17900).
• Crashes when viewing archive from a folder in the export settings dialog box when launching the calendar (#17891).
• Manage > Utilities: the timeout for waiting for a response from the device was increased.
• View Archive has been optimized when changing playback direction (#17194).

Line Linux 8.0.4 x64 (27.09.2021)

• Added quick camera selection/assignment panel (#10155/#12166).
• Changed the PTZ control widget (#10836).
• Sound alert does not work (#13257).
• Setting up keyboard shortcuts, issue a message if the combination is already used (#16896).
• The server list loads slowly (#17035).
• Created a view from Observer (#17157).
• Observer V8 stopped launching (#17206).
• Server information updated in the network connection dialog box when port forwarding (#17207).
• MacOS maximize/minimize the window (#17313).
• Refined the style of the camera connection settings dialog box (#17320).
• Refined the style of the reaction settings tab (#17326).
• Highlighting the name of the currently selected camera on the timeline (#17388/#10607).
• Highlighting the viewed camera when clicking on its name in the timeline list (#10607).
• Cameras are turned off after exiting Manage (mobile #17500).
• Long cancellation when exiting Manage (#17502).
• Saving the list of network connections right after adding/changing (mobile #17511).
• Face detector, use a second stream when possible (#17599).
• No cameras in the export menu for a restricted user (#17603).
• Loading camera previews on non-standard ports (#17666).
• The functionality for exporting an archive when viewed from a folder has been restored (#17827).
• Enabled sending ftp\e-mail\sms when Dynamic DNS is turned off (#6907/#13887).

Line Linux 8.0.3 x64 (11.08.2021)

• Crashing of Observer when Changing User

Line Linux 8.0.2 x64 (10.08.2021)

• Hotkeys, Ctrl/Alt/Shift + NumX combinations added.
• Hotkeys added for using digital zoom.
• Added capability to save unique view of user within a group.
• Capability to disable “Observation” monitor mode on the main screen.
• Archive viewing is available on any monitor in video surveillance mode.
• Reduced Observer load when using a high-resolution monitor.
• Administration, checking valid port values.
• Customize user views, display only available cameras.
• Difficulty in using the calendar in Playback.
• Added capability of opening child windows on parent monitor.
• Crashing when adding PTZ cameras.
• Channel activation without reconnecting to the server.
• When a zone is first drawn in the Playback cell, drag and drop is activated.
• Added capability to change the path when configuring the archive.
• Styles refined, icons updated.
• Dynamic Timeline scrolling.
• Tab in Playback removed, changing the height is done by capturing the Timeline.
• Mobile Clients: Cyclic paging of views in Observer.

Line Linux 8.0.1 x64 (23.07.2021)

• Updated new application style.
• Incorrect saving of tour reactions when conditions are missing (#4119).
• Adjusted the alarm monitor operation (#17203).
• Crashes when server list settings are incorrect (#17206).
• Crashes when exiting full screen of the Observer View Archive cell (#17346).
• Crashes when viewing archive if user permissions have changed on the server (#17188).
• The application crashes when loading corrupted views.
• The application crashes when reconnecting to the server (#17281).
• Saving/restoring the configuration of video analytics when switching to View Archive / Observer (#12386).
• Reaction: the mail subject is not saved (#17097).
• Client settings: the “Use system proxy” value was not saved (#17198).
• Export archive according to filter does not work (#17231).
• Export archive, video server source is displayed incorrectly (#17229).
• The Utilities tab in Management is only displayed when connected to a recorder (#17226).
• Anti-aliasing is enabled for digital zoom (#17296).

Line Linux 8.0 x64(29.06.2021)

New:

• New application style.

Mobile clients:

• The timeline does not move on devices with high pixel density.
• Changed device selection in admintool with a long press.
• Android: extra characters removed from the app title.
• iOS: low display resolution in the Observer/Playback cell.
• iOS: handling screen rotation under heavy CPU load.

Changes:

• Observer crashes when trying to connect to the recorder after factory reset.
• Crashes when changing the stream on all cameras.
• Crashes when closing the Emap monitor camera preview.
• Run external program reaction.
• Server group: stream settings not saved when filling the appearance by RMB.
• Renaming a group/server in the network connections dialog box.
• Text added on agreeing to the licence agreement in Observer when activating channels.
• Changed the Save Frame dialog box.
• Crashes when working with the camera selection dialog box.
• The camera status icon in the cell rarely updates.
• Timeline size when opening / closing a full screen cell.
• Changed the zoom algorithm in the cell.
• Crashes when adding cameras by range.
• Drag&Drop between monitors.
• Application of ptz-cell settings when exiting Manage.
• Hotkeys to save monitors and restore their places.
• Changes to the UI of the Licensing page.
• Maximize the Observer window from the tray when launching a second instance of the application.
• Squares instead of dots in Linux when signing into the server and when changing the password in Manage.
• Correct size of the sound regulator when there are lots of cameras on view.
• Observer response to the maximize window command.
• A button for managing the visibility of the filter panel added in Playback.
• Archive export, hangs when requesting data.
• Client settings.
• Digital zoom for the Playback cell in pause mode.
• When changing the window position, the OSD stays in its original place.
• Does not switch to full screen mode when double-clicking in the area of the Observer/Playback OSD cell.

Line Linux 8.0 RC4 x64(11.05.2021)

New features:

• Analytics: face detector and motion filters added to Playback;
• Added hotkeys functionality.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed errors when working with views (when connecting to a server group, remote management).
• Observer freezes when saving user settings.
• Audio/Video tabs combined in user device settings.
• Fixed the rotating monitor errors
• Updated information on Line Cloud servers in the connections dialog box.
• Fixed errors when assigning microphones to video channels.
• Interrupt camera streams when entering Manage or minimizing the program
• Crashes when using mouse wheel to scroll through months in the archive calendar dialog box.
• Reduced the time for connecting to the server
• Observer V8 keeps pulling multiview streams when opening the camera in full screen.
• Playback freezes when server-side connection is broken.
• Android: added the option to disable screen locking/fading in client settings.
• WEB server: auto-connect to the server setting was not saved.