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Sighthound Video Changelog

What's new in Sighthound Video 6.1.1

Dec 17, 2019
  • New - More resolution choices added for email notification attachment.
  • Changed - Notification engine had been reworked to improve responsiveness and robustness.
  • Changed - Improved responsiveness of backEnd processes by offloading ONVIF/UPNP scanning into dedicated threads.
  • Fixed - Deleting a recent clip could cause a UI stall.
  • Fixed - A delay in notifications could occur when long inactivity period followed an event.
  • Fixed - A delay sending email notifications could occur for events taking a non-trivial amount of time.
  • Fixed - Time-based export could fail to capture the entire period requested by the user.
  • Fixed - Camera warning icons could be displayed in Monitor View without an actual problem.
  • Fixed - Requests to upload problematic clips to Sighthound could fail.
  • Fixed - Cameras with Unicode character in the name fail to go full screen in Grid View.
  • Fixed - System information was not included in bug reports.

New in Sighthound Video 6.0 (Sep 6, 2019)

  • New SIO-based detection engine
  • Added new classification categories: animals, vehicles
  • Added ability to submit problematic clips to Sighthound for support and analysis
  • Added third party API integration via webhooks
  • Added in-memory video buffering option
  • Introduced limited GPU offloading for video processing (Intel GPUs)
  • Allowed user control over clip fragmentation
  • Various clip export improvements (still frame export, time-based export, resize and FPS modifications)
  • Modified support form and switched support forums to HappyFox.

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.7 Build 17345 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • Improved clip playback start and seek times
  • Improved camera reconnect behavior
  • Cameras sending compressed frames over 2.2MB could fail to connect in 5.1.6
  • Fixed crash when some streams within a camera feed could not be parsed
  • Fixed rare camera disconnects under macOS when virtual memory use was unexpectedly high
  • Remote access web view could sometimes display an incorrect clip list when server and viewer timezones did not match
  • Changed default remote access clip playback settings to favor response time
  • Mobile safari was incorrectly displaying desktop controls

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.6 Build 17335 (Jan 24, 2018)

  • Fullscreen camera viewing now only exits with Enter, Esc, and mouse clicks to prevent accidental dismissal
  • Clips from all camera streams should operate correctly at 16x playback speed
  • Fixed rare macOS UI crash from mouse input
  • Fixed possible database lockup on systems with extreme amounts of activity across many cameras
  • Fixed bug causing rules to occasional not load when activating a new license
  • Numerous camera processing updates including improvements for unstable/resetting streams, multi-second pauses, and very high keyframe distances

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.5 Build 17305 (Nov 26, 2017)

  • Fixed connection issues with certain Foscam model and firmware version combinations.

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.4 Build 17296 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Fixed bug from 5.1.1 that could cause clips to be incorrectly marked as temporary
  • Fixed bug from 5.1.3 causing failure in remote clip playback when quality set to "Original"

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.3 Build 17288 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Fixed a memory leak on macOS

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.2 Build 17286 (Nov 11, 2017)

  • Fixed failure to start on some versions of OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and 10.11 (El Capitan)

New in Sighthound Video 5.1.1 Build 17282 (Nov 11, 2017)

  • Fixed frequent disconnects in Wansview and similar cameras
  • Fixed connection failures for some high bitrate cameras
  • Remote access streams for users with non-ASCII usernames now works correctly
  • Improved performance for slow USB or network storage drives
  • Faster cleanup of temporary data
  • Improved grid view performance when some cameras fail to connect

New in Sighthound Video 5.1 Build 17250 (Oct 14, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • Double-click a camera in grid view to open in full-screen mode
  • 16x playback mode for clips
  • "Download" button for clips added to web remote viewer
  • Email image attachments now have unique filenames
  • Faster thumbnail loading and remote clip playback
  • Better indicator when camera recording has stopped due to full disk
  • Improved ONVIF implementation
  • Push notification service updates
  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved connection and streaming issues with 4k and higher resolution cameras
  • Fixed application launch failures due to a slow file system access
  • Timestamp overlay now uses time/date format specified in settings
  • Fixed issue with storage volumes over 4TB in size
  • Prevent app from terminating camera connection when computer is under heavy load
  • Fixed issues for cameras with incorrect timing information and built-in/USB cameras

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.5 Build 17138 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • Fixed bug preventing some clips with audio streams from playing in the Android mobile app
  • The desktop app now runs correctly if launched from a windows command prompt

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.4 Build 17135 (Aug 11, 2017)

  • Fixed possible crash when setting 30fps playback for grid view
  • Web remote access now renders properly when using 443 as the external port

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.3 Build 17130 (Aug 11, 2017)

  • Fixed issue introduced in 5.0.2 that could cause flickering in the monitor view

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.2 Build 17127 (Aug 11, 2017)

  • Fixed issues in grid view where some cameras would not properly update
  • Improvements to app startup and shutdown behavior
  • Maximum resolution setting for remote access clips was not always respected
  • Fixed memory corruption issue in some rtsp streams

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.1 Build 17108 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • Fixed bug that could cause a camera in grid view to freeze on a black frame or status message
  • Additional blocks and warnings when attempting to run under an incompatible OS or architecture

New in Sighthound Video 5.0.0 Build 17093 (Jul 8, 2017)

  • Desktop Application:
  • New grid view displays live streams in any order, layout, and framerate with quick keyboard navigation
  • Sighthound Video is now a 64 bit application
  • Remote Access:
  • Adaptive quality control for live streams, dynamic resolution and bitrate based on connection speed
  • Much faster connections for live streams
  • Web access has improved dynamic layout, massive speed improvements, and expanded HTML 5 playback support

New in Sighthound Video 4.0.4 Build 16925 (Jun 9, 2017)

  • Fixed bug preventing automatic port opening on macOS
  • Fixed bug causing responses to not always fire properly for certain region rules
  • Fixed a number of errors that could occur on systems using non-ASCII characters
  • Fixed an intermittent camera crash
  • Correctly connect to a set of MJPEG cameras with broken multipart MIME implementations
  • More graceful shutdown and recovery behavior when the OS drive is full
  • Maintain connection to ONVIF cameras who cease responding to ONVIF commands
  • Support RTSP connections where auth is required to be in the URL path rather than userinfo

New in Sighthound Video 4.0.3 Build 16878 (Mar 8, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • Increased compatibility with cameras using FLV as a format
  • Certain rtsp MPEG4 streams could result in a crash
  • Fixed incompatibility with OS X 10.8

New in Sighthound Video 4.0.2 Build 16844 (Feb 9, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • Updated person detection algorithms to greatly reduce false positives
  • Improved launch time when a remote drive is used for video storage
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed configuration errors if application was upgraded by a different user than the one who installed the application
  • Fixed crash that could occur with certain RTSP streams
  • Fixed handling of certain streams using H.264 over HTTP
  • Fixed rare crash on macOS for some H.264 streams
  • Fixed bug preventing auto-updates from succeeding on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). This (4.0.2) build will need to be manually downloaded and installed but future updates will work as expected.

New in Sighthound Video 4.0.1 Build 16769 (Jan 10, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • Added ‘original’ quality option for remote access
  • Added timestamp overlay option for remote access live streams
  • Automatically activate licenses purchased prior to installation
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several possible crashes
  • Remote Access will now activate under new macOS installations
  • UPnP and ONVIF cameras could improperly display a "no rules scheduled" message before connecting
  • Properly select first clip when displaying results in reverse order
  • Bounding boxes draw properly when exporting multiple clips at once

New in Sighthound Video 4.0.0 Build 16700 (Dec 23, 2016)

  • Sighthound Video 4 has been re-architected to significantly enhance performance when recording from H264 sources. In these cases the software uses on average 60% less CPU than version 3.0 even when recording full 30 frames per second frame rates.
  • For H264 IP cameras:
  • Audio support for that use the AAC codec.
  • Significantly improved CPU performance when recording H264 streams.
  • Reduced disk bandwidth and file storage size for most streams.
  • Video is recorded at full frame rate, no longer limited to 10fps.
  • Other improvements:
  • Accelerated video player.
  • Improved accuracy and efficiency of human detection engine.
  • Support for reversing sort order of search results list.
  • Controls for enabling timestamps and object boxes in remote access and clip export.

New in Sighthound Video 3.0.2 Build 16019 (Feb 11, 2016)

  • Remote access would not start for some users.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the disk cleanup process.
  • Connection errors were occurring for cameras using h264 over http.
  • Delete key on OS X was not triggering the delete clip dialog in Search View.
  • Cameras with special characters in their name such as ‘&’ would not display properly in browser-based remote access.
  • Improved browser-based remote access playback of live video streams.
  • Video timestamps were sometimes displayed in 24 hour format regardless of user selection.
  • Fixed a crash when loading certain damaged rules.
  • Fixed a crash with certain webcams under OS X.
  • Added a debugging tool to allow users to manually trigger the collection of detailed connection information to aid in troubleshooting incompatible video streams.

New in Sighthound Video 3.0.1 Build 15986 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when enabling cameras on OS X 10.11.2.

New in Sighthound Video 3.0 Build 15984 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Improved computer vision algorithms.
  • Https support for remote access.
  • Run from service, without an active user (launch on system boot, continue running after user logoff).
  • Major performance improvements to disk cleanup process.
  • Configurable bit rate for remote access clips and live streams.
  • Retina support for OS X.
  • Starter Edition now allows saving video at VGA (previously QVGA).
  • Countless bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in Sighthound Video 2.5.1 Build 15102 (Aug 14, 2015)

  • What's New:
  • App signature is now compatible with changes introduced in OS X 10.11.
  • Improved compatibility for cameras sending MPEG4-ES over rtsp.
  • Fixed crash when encountering unrecognized/unsupported video types in rtsp streams.
  • Fixed crash that could occur during video decoding.
  • Fixed crash that could occur on clip export.

New in Sighthound Video 2.4.1 Build 14991 (Feb 20, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • The monitor view could freeze on the final frame rather than showing an appropriate status message when a video stream was interrupted.
  • In remote access cameras could display an incorrect status message rather than live images after stream loss and reconnection.
  • The "view your camera from your browser" link during configuration was incorrect for ONVIF cameras.
  • Fixed rare issue that could cause background processes to freeze during shutdown.
  • New Cameras:
  • TRENDnet TV-VS1P

New in Sighthound Video 2.4 Build 14964 (Feb 6, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • ONVIF support for easy detection and configuration of compatible cameras.
  • IFTTT (if this then that) integration. Enable the IFTTT response on your rules to trigger recipes at ifttt.com.
  • Additional Changes:
  • Numerous compatibility improvements and bug fixes for local and USB cameras and capture devices.
  • Fixed bugs causing a crash report prompt to display when no crash had occurred.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent file deletion from occurring quickly enough to maintain the disk quota on overloaded systems.
  • Fixed several bugs that could prevent the application from exiting properly.
  • Fixed crash that could occur when moving the video data directory.
  • The application can now successfully recover data from many external file corruption scenarios such as failing RAM or disk drives.
  • Fixed bug causing email attachments for rules or cameras with international characters to lose their file extension.
  • New Cameras:
  • AVTech AVM542B
  • Axis M1025, M3024-LVE
  • IPCAM Central IPCC-7207E, IPCC-9605E, IPCC-9610
  • Lorex LNB2153
  • Samsung SmartCam HD Pro (SNH-P6410BN)
  • Sricam AP008

New in Sighthound Video 2.3.2 Build 14715 (Oct 13, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Individual rules can be enabled and disabled in the browser-based remote access client.
  • OSX crash reports and other errors can be optionally submitted on the following application launch.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several compatibility issues with analog capture cards and webcams on OSX and Windows.
  • The iOS app icon now properly updates to reflect number of unchecked push notifications.
  • Certain UI controls could be drawn offscreen after resolution or display changes.
  • Gatekeeper recognizes the application as signed under OSX 10.9.5.
  • The disk cleanup process now uses CPU more sparingly when there is a backlog.

New in Sighthound Video 2.3.1 Build 14659 (Oct 4, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Cameras with Unicode names would not display correctly in the Monitor View.
  • Fixed UI crash when changing licenses from a deactivated camera hyperlink.
  • New Cameras:
  • Canon VB-S905F

New in Sighthound Video 2.3 Build 14652 (Sep 3, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Improved video playback quality in Monitor View and Search View.
  • Live video window in Monitor View is resizable.
  • Additional email response options for image attachment resolution and rate limiting.
  • Added date and time format settings.
  • Native webcam resolutions now shown in Windows as in OS X.
  • Reduced minimum app size for small displays.
  • New Search View layout with more space for video.
  • Daily timeline can now be hidden.
  • Added menu shortcuts for playback speed selection.
  • Removed all external dependencies on remote access web player.
  • App signature compatible with upcoming OSX releases (10.9.5 and 10.10).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug in version 2.2 that could cause legacy licenses to revert to Starter Edition.
  • Fixed remote access issue for OS X 10.7 users.
  • Fixed stuttering in certain browsers when viewing a live stream.
  • When editing a webcam the currently configured resolution was sometimes not selected.
  • Assorted smaller bugs squashed.
  • New Cameras:
  • ACTi E77
  • Alibi ALI-IPU3013R
  • Canon VB-H41, VB-H610VE, VB-H610D, VB-H710F, VB-M40, VB-M600D, VB-M600VE, VB-S30D, VB-S31D, VB-S800D, VB-S900F

New in Sighthound Video 2.2 Build 14470 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Starter Edition includes a free 14 day Pro trial after logging in with a Sighthound account.
  • Improved license installation and management with Sighthound accounts.
  • Clip playback window is now resizable.
  • Multiple clip export.
  • App position and size is remembered across launches.
  • Improved support for concurrent remote access connections.
  • Rewrote OSX webcam library, improving CPU utilization and adding support for new builtin camera models (Air mid 2013, Pro late 2013, iMac late 2013 and newer).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug causing tracking boxes to become stuck in some rare occasions.
  • Fixed bug causing timestamps to instead display 'c' on some Windows machines.
  • Properly truncate camera names in the monitor view.
  • Added support for the builtin OSX firewall.
  • Improved automatic recovery from process hangs or crashes.
  • New Cameras:
  • Android apps IP Webcam and Ocular
  • Asgari 720U, EZPT, PTG2, and UIR
  • Dericam M801W
  • D-Link DCS-7010L
  • IPS EO1312VW
  • Neo CoolCAM NIP-06
  • OpenEye CM-715
  • Polaroid IP302
  • Wirepath WPS-750-DOM-IP
  • Zmodo ZP-IBH13-W and ZH-IXC15-WC

New in Sighthound Video 2.1 Build 14089 (May 23, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • New push notification response for use with the Sighthound Video mobile viewing apps.
  • Tracking boxes now display in remote access clip playback.
  • Improved rule response handling when a large number of responses pending (especially ftp).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Timestamps were not functioning for certain cameras under Windows.
  • New Cameras:
  • Axis M1004-W, M1013, M1014, M1033-W, M1034-W, and M1054
  • Digitus DN-16053
  • Grandstream GVX3615WP_HD
  • Hikvision DS-2CD752MF-FB and DS-2CD793NFWD-E
  • Insteon 75790
  • Loftek Nexus 543
  • MOBOTIX T25
  • Samsung SNZ-5200

New in Sighthound Video 1.4.1 Build 6064 (Sep 11, 2010)

  • Fixed bug causing problems streaming from the D-Link DCS-920, TRENDNet TV-IP100W-N, 200W and 400W.

New in Sighthound Video 1.3 Build 6002 (Sep 11, 2010)

  • Fixed bug causing problems streaming from the D-Link DCS-920, TRENDNet TV-IP100W-N, 200W and 400W.

New in Sighthound Video 1.3 Build 6002 (Jun 18, 2010)

  • Significant improvements in processing efficiency mean you can run more cameras on your computer or free up more processing power for other applications.
  • Added ability to automatically upload video clips to an FTP site for secure archival (Basic and Pro Editions)
  • Added ability to configure a set of cameras to turn on or off with a toolbar button (Basic and Pro Editions)
  • Added ability to set a delay when arming cameras to give yourself time to exit before cameras start recording or sending alerts (Basic and Pro Editions)
  • Improved grid layout of multiple cameras in Monitor View
  • Reduced amount of time before a camera tries to reconnect if the connection is interrupted
  • New cameras supported: Asante Voyager I, Asante Voyager II, Compro IP60, D-Link DCS 5220
  • Lots of bug fixes

New in Sighthound Video 1.2 Build 5881 (May 10, 2010)

  • Added capability to run a custom action using a script or other program when a rule is triggered. This feature is only available in the Basic and Pro Editions.
  • Added support for the Vivotek IP7361 camera
  • Added MPEG-4 streaming option for several cameras
  • Lots of bug fixes and general performance improvements