We're excited to announce the release of Bluecherry Client Beta21! This update includes a variety of new features, improvements, and bug fixes to enhance your experience. Here's a summary of what's new:

New Features

• Lock Layouts: You can now lock your camera layouts to prevent accidental changes. Once a layout is locked, you won't be able to add, remove, or reorder cameras until it is unlocked.
• Fullscreen Exit Button: A dedicated button at the top right has been added to easily exit fullscreen mode.
• Mute and Volume Control: Control the audio volume directly from the command line with the --mute flag and --volume option.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Navigate the app more efficiently with new global and dedicated shortcuts. Quickly access Layouts View, Timeline of Events, Settings, and more. You can also customize these shortcuts at Settings > Application > Keyboard Shortcuts. This allows for quicker navigation and a more personalized user experience.

Bug Fixes

• Fullscreen Argument Issue: Resolved an issue where the fullscreen mode was not applied correctly when using the --fullscreen argument.
• Timeline of Events Timezone Fix: Fixed a bug that caused events to be removed from the Timeline of Events if the system detected them as occurring on a different day due to timezone offsets.
• Events History Navigation: Addressed a problem that prevented users from viewing different records in the Events History Screen on Linux.
• Enhanced Audio Handling: We've improved the encoding of the volume stream from MPV, resolving an issue where the volume could exceed 100% on Windows.
• Saving Settings: In our previous released, we made the app safe by encrypting your Servers and Devices data. Now, the Settings data are also encrypted and correctly stored locally.

Get the Update

• Bluecherry Client is now available on the Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/bluecherry-client
• Or download the executables below.

We hope you enjoy these updates! We value your feedback! Please share your thoughts and report any issues you encounter.

What's Changed

• fix: Snap Metadata by @bdlukaa in #287
• fix: Dump servers provider instance if not initialized yet by @bdlukaa in #289
• General by @bdlukaa in #293
• Improve Keyboard Shortcuts by @bdlukaa in #297
• General Updates by @bdlukaa in #298
• hotfix: Timeline of Events fetching by @bdlukaa in #300
• Dependency Upgrade season by @bdlukaa in #305

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-beta20...v3.0.0-beta21

We're excited to announce a significant update to the Bluecherry Client, bringing a host of new features and enhancements.

One of the standout additions is the ability to magnify events, allowing for better visibility and detail analysis. We've also introduced an option to collapse the timeline, increasing overall visibility of your surveillance feeds. We've resolved timezone issues, ensuring clients in different time zones now function correctly. Linux users will be pleased to know that we've completely rewritten the video rendering engine, addressing previous crashes and usability concerns.

The timeline of events has received a major overhaul. Motion events are now highlighted for easy identification, and we've added convenient 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons for seamless navigation. An automatic skip feature for empty periods has been implemented, along with a new filter for event types (motions, continuous, or all). We've also improved keyboard shortcuts for more efficient operation. These updates include adaptations for different screen interfaces and the implementation of an events time filter, making the Bluecherry Client more versatile and user-friendly than ever before.

The following is a complete list of changes:

• It is now possible to magnify Events
• Option to collapse the Timeline to increase visibility
• Clients on different timezones now behave correctly
• Rewrite the video rendering engine for Linux
  This aims to fix all the crashes and usability issues.

Timeline of Events

• Motion events are highlighted
• Previous and Next buttons
• Option to automatically skip empty periods
• Add event type (motions, continuous, all) filter
• Improve keyboard shortcuts

What's Changed

• feat: Event Video Magnification by @bdlukaa in #252
• Events Filter Timezone by @bdlukaa in #255
• Events Download by @bdlukaa in #256
• Update for the french translation by @sivolc73 in #260
• Use MDK Video Backend on Linux by @bdlukaa in #261
• Timeline Enhancements by @bdlukaa in #262

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-beta18...v3.0.0-beta19

What's Changed

• feat: Event Video Magnification by @bdlukaa in #252
• Events Filter Timezone by @bdlukaa in #255
• Events Download by @bdlukaa in #256
• Update for the french translation by @sivolc73 in #260
• Use MDK Video Backend on Linux by @bdlukaa in #261
• Timeline Enhancements by @bdlukaa in #262
• Release beta18 by @bdlukaa in #263

This release focuses on several bugs discovered in beta 2:

* Resolve bug where the client won't actually close (Fixes #49 and #53)
* Add code analysis to CI build process (follows Flutter best-practices)

This release has the following features:

* Show warning if there are no downloads
* Remove unneeded libraries (saves approximately 50% of installation size)

As always you can download the latest Version 3 beta client from GitHub (https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/unity/releases)

Important!

This is a complete rewrite of the Bluecherry remote client. Literally none of the code base from Version to Version 3 was reused. This means some things may not function as expected and currently PTZ does NOT work. If you have a PTZ camera and would like to help test please let us know in the discussions area - https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/unity/discussions

What's Changed

Initial Windows Desktop release.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/unity/commits/main

https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/unity/releases

We are working on the next release of the client.  For now we have updated builds for the Windows client (x86 32/64bit) and a new OSX M1 build.

This build fixes a problem with the Windows client crashing during event playback.

Windows x86 64 bit

Windows x86 32 bit

OSX (M1 build)

• Port Bluecherry Client to Qt5
• Support Ubuntu 20.04 (#320)
• Support Debian Buster (#321)
• Reimplemented liveview GUI using Qt Widgets instead of QML
• Enabled switching between liveview substream & main stream
• Migrated to Autotools build system
• Reimplment drag and drop functionality (lost during port to Qt5)

As always you can download the client on our website, www.bluecherrydvr.com/downloads or run ‘sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install bluecherry-client’ on Ubuntu / Debian systems.  Optionally you can build the latest client yourself by downloading the source code here (https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/bluecherry-client)