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.
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).
- The status of the "Show Filter Bar" checkbox is not memorized (#20511).
- Updated application icons.
- The stream’s status is not displayed in the cells when buffering is enabled (#20599).
- Zone editor, error when saving configuration (#20215).
- Network connections dialog box, automatically reconnect to the server when settings change (#20402).
- Network connections dialog box, server status update timeout reduced to 5 seconds (#20509).
- Added display of Human detection events in the PA filter panel (#20012).
- Added ability to work on I-frames when receiving camera stream from kernel (#20282).
- Removed extra spaces in camera and server names (#20371).
- Reactions, Human detection condition added (#20013).
- Removed FPS limits when rendering fullscreen frames of cells.
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).
- Default view of 1 when connecting to a Devline camera (#18363).
- Increased the size of the back button for fullscreen cells (#20439).
- Network connections dialog box, update current status of servers by swiping (#20259).
- Network connections dialog box, the search button remains unavailable when an IP address is inserted (#20369).
- Panel buttons aren’t hidden when quickly switching to fullscreen (#20553).
- Management, updated the GUI of PTZ, Network, Users pages (#20071,#19829).
- Application crashes when microphone permission is first requested (#20484).
- Interrupt camera streams when Change User, Network Connections and Information dialog boxes are displayed (#20191).
- Management, displaying video from cameras at full width of window (#20456).
- Scroll pages converted to one format (#20167).
- Error decoding frame when creating screenshot (#20462).
- Enlarged view is saved in multiscreen (#20446).
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).
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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
New:
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 MacOS 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.