Monitoreal Release Notes

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Version 1.9.0

October 9th, 2024

  • Moving object detection (Vehicles & Luggage object categories only) – Enabling this setting will result in only detecting moving and stopped objects, depending on the user’s preferences.
  • Detection accuracy improvements.
  • Video archive upgrade – Cropping tools added for both the video player and chart.
  • Multiple rule creation mechanism added – Create multiple rules at once for selected cameras and objects, instead of individually per camera.
  • Various web user interface (WUI) updates and upgrades.
  • ‘Filter By’ added to the live feed in the WUI – Enabling events to be sorted by category type and camera.
  • Live view function now allows listening to surroundings, using the MR camera’s microphone (mute button also available).
  • “Show in the video archive” button – Added to the snapshots archive, allowing you to see a precise moment with one click in the full video footage.
  • Time selection upgraded with Autoupdate- Set the time period during which the MR device will look for an update.
  • Automatic camera organization added: The camera position is automatically organized whether the status is Active or Inactive (inactive cameras are at the end of the list).
  • Introducing new Alarm & CCTV Monitoring and Response Software integrations for security professionals:
    1. Patriot (International)
    2. Praxis (Belgium)
    3. SBN (Spain)
  • Minor bug fixes.

September 6th, 2024

  • Push notifications API update.

June 4th, 2024

Total resolution capacity
The cumulative resolution for Spartan devices has been increased from 32MP to 48MP in total. This new resolution ceiling can be cumulatively shared across a maximum of 20 connected cameras.

Web-interface changes

Video Archive

  • The “Recordings” page is now called “Video Archive”.
  • The video segment being played is now highlighted on the detection bar chart.
  • Any 5-minute video fragment can be downloaded by clicking the download icon on the playing video.

Recording feature

  • A “Recording” button is now on the “Cameras” menu.
  • By clicking this button you will be shown the list of cameras and their recording status which can be changed with the toggle button.
  • Each camera has a “View recordings” button, which will take you to the “Video archive” for this camera.

External SSD storage

Recording is now available for both Spartans and with the MR external SSD you can do the following:

  • 256GB – Recording is directly on the MR external SSD.
  • 1TB – Recording is performed on the internal partition of this Spartan. When storage usage reaches capacity, the Spartan will record onto the MR external SSD instead of deleting the oldest video files.
  • If the recording stopped due to the MR external SSD being disconnected, the Spartan will detect when reconnected and will resume recording.
  • Due to demand, a new 4TB version will also be available soon.

Audio page
The status of the connected device is now displayed and you can easily determine whether the Bluetooth audio device is either online or offline.

Ksenia integration
Now place and for integration with Ksenia alarm products. See ‘alerts’ page for integration.

Telegram
Telegram reports are now showing the exact time created from and to e.g. Report time shown: from 16:59:44 to 16:59:45.

Date/time
The camera’s date and time can now be synchronised with the MR Device by clicking the “Sync with MR device” button in the “Camera settings”.

Overall security
The security and privacy of the Spartan, Pro and Base models have been significantly increased.

March 6th, 2024

  • Deeper integration with Immix is now available.
  • Bug fixes.

February 29th, 2024

  • Arm/Disarm schedule is now available complete with the calendar.
  • Secure Guard mobile application response time in North America has been improved.
  • Enhanced detection mechanisms on both Spartan and Pro devices for greater accuracy.
  • New “audio event triggered” notification introduced.
  • Bluetooth search functionality improved.
  • Securithor and Sentinel integrations improved for both ARC platforms.
  • WUI recordings page now shows the segments when video is or is not available.
  • The Time Format in the ‘System’ tab now shows the time of the MR Device with the selected timezone for the device.
  • “Keyframe mode” has been deprecated for all Spartan appliances.
  • Stability enhancements and bug fixes.

December 13th, 2023

  • A single WUI button can now be used to clear the detections archive.
  • The Spartan model can now combine Snapshot and Stream modes with Snapshot Mode counted as a half of the resolution of each camera towards the overall resolution capacity.
  • Camera discovery method improved.
  • Introducing Admin & Viewer roles for the Telegram bots. While the Viewer role is primarily restricted to receiving alerts and reports with a very limited control of the functionality via the Telegram commands, the Admin retains the full list of permissions to manage the appliance’s functionality.
  • Bug fixes.

December 8th, 2023

  • Bug fixes.

November 29th, 2023

Base, Pro and Spartan models:

  • Security upgrades and overall stability enhancement.

November 23rd, 2023

Spartan models:

  1. Improved Camera resolution flexibility, now offering up to 32MP, cumulatively across all cameras. Max. available resolution per camera is up to 4K/8MP.
  2. Created a dynamic calculator available on the WUI for easier understanding of total resolution in use, vs. total resolution remaining available.
  3. Enhanced internal streams management to decrease LAN load.
  4. Further improvement of detection quality.

Base, Pro and Spartan models:

  1. Upgraded the WUI with “Recover” and “Factory reset” buttons to help restore devices in the rare case of malfunction.
  2. Enhanced the static object double-check detection mechanism.
  3. Full recording functionality management is now available via the Telegram bot:
    • Activate or deactivate the camera recording using the “/camera” command.
    • An option to select the detection report or a full video (when recording is on for the specific camera) via the “/report” command is now available
  4. The notifications page on the WUI now allows you to add multiple Telegram bots to one MR Appliance.
  5. Recorder performance and stability improved.

October 23rd, 2023
As we officially welcome the “Monitoreal Secure Guard” mobile application (iOS and Android) and the launch of the Spartan appliances, we are happy to announce firmware version 1.6.0 and the following enhancements:

  • The addition of the “Monitoreal Secure Guard” mobile application simplifies how users can be kept up-to-date with events at their premises and the ability to manage the Monitoreal appliance. Users can configure the MR settings (like the WebUI) and receive real-time notifications, easily access a live-view of cameras, rule configuration and management of the relays.
  • Manage up to two MR appliances when linked to a mobile app account (Spartan, Pro and Base).
  • Connect your MR appliance to your mobile application account using either the Mobile section in the WebUI or remotely with the “/mobile” command via Telegram.
  • Access the Telegram “Get video” button – which, upon detection of an event, shows a user a video segment of up to 50MB (Telegram limit) when connected to the Monitoreal external SSD.
  • The camera limit on the Spartan appliances is now increased to 12.
  • Audio 3.5 mm available for audio connections with the Spartan appliances. Set up available on both the WebUI and Mobile application.
  • Detection upgrades for Spartan and Pro appliances:
    – The Spartan models both now offer next-generation AI.
    – The Pro model offers further improved detections.
  • The WebUI now offers a “Recording” section where the user can see video fragments from their cameras, by choosing a specific camera and date. When connected to the Monitoreal external SSD, both segments with and without detections can be viewed in the built-in web player (recording needs to be activated per camera).
  • Enhanced Multi Detection feature.
  • Clearer detection box with thicker markings around an object that triggers an alert in a multi-detection scene.
  • PIN option for relays and WebUI, which now lets users transfer a relay from one device to another without losing any settings using the PIN. (Available with the relay firmware version 2.27)
  • Other minor fixes, optimisations and security upgrades.

August 28st, 2023

  • Improved zone detections on all appliances.
  • Upgraded the detection quality on Pro devices.

August 2nd, 2023

  • Bug fixes and improvements.

July 20th, 2023

  • Improved object multi-detection mechanism.
  • Enhanced detection quality on the Pro devices.
  • Overall stability of devices upgraded.
  • Minor internal improvements and bug fixes.

Important note: To all current and future users. Please be informed that starting from the next firmware release you will not be able to use the Telegram bot with the default login and password.

May 25th, 2023

  • Introducing more objects for detection (cup, wine glass and bottle).
  • Introducing the new relay action “trigger output”. Designed to trigger an output when an input has been triggered by either a sensor or a button; this feature works independently of the connection to the Monitoreal Video Security Assistant.
  • Settings backup improvements for stable restoration and changing file extension to *.mrxbackup.
  • Added support for mobile application (beta testers).
  • Enhanced logs information.
  • Live view link to multiple cameras fixed.
  • Improved Alerts stability and recorder functionality.

March 3rd, 2023

  • Monitoreal Relays can now operate with static IP addresses as well as DHCP.
  • All Monitoreal Relay stability has been improved.
  • The Recorder feature stability has been improved.
  • Integration now available with Immix, one of the market-leading central monitoring station software platforms.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

January 12th, 2023

  • Live-View page on Web User Interface improved for better viewing experience.
  • Monitoreal Relay-initiated Disarm sequence improved.
  • Sentinel ARC software alert structure updated with snapshot functionality added.
  • Monitoreal Relay and Smart Plugs are now fixed to one Monitoreal device and cannot be overtaken from another device unless manually removed.
  • Further bug fixes and internal optimization.

December 14th, 2022

  • Video recording functionality enhanced to play the full video of a security event with a single click.
  • Select the type of object you wish to view, even if multiple object types have been detected.
  • View or download video footage of a detected event directly from the ‘Recently Detected Events’ feed in the web user interface (WUI).
  • Accurately managed events footage timing in the Archive corresponding to a specific event.
  • I/O Network Relay can now be configured to use with WiFi if Ethernet is unavailable.
  • I/O Network Relay input can now be configured to send snapshots from all active cameras.
  • Relay ‘semi-automatic strobe’ mode alerts added.
  • Object appearance/ disappearance alerts are now optional.
  • WUI formatted to show vertical images.
  • Addition of deep integration with Securithor, one of the global leaders among Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) and remote monitoring station software platforms.
  • Live integration with Sentinel, the most popular Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) and remote monitoring station software platform in the UK.
  • WUI Monitoreal logo updated.
  • Email notifications set-up process improved.
  • WiFi network scanner bug fixed.
  • Minor detection quality improvements.
  • Translations fixes.

September 28th, 2022

  • Introducing video recording functionality. Now you can use Monitoreal as a smart search engine for the security events you want to investigate, and then play a full video of the event with a single click. No need to watch through hours of footage via your NVR. Purchase the Monitoreal Drive and connect it to the device, turn on recording for selected cameras, and you’re all set!
  • Improved Deep Sight Mode detection and object classification as well as bug fixes. Available for Pro model only.
  • Faster queue processing, meaning instant or minimum delay alerts for you, even in the busiest areas.
  • Corridor (vertical) camera mode now supported.
  • Camera authorization algorithm updated (basic/ digest switch) for better camera compatibility.
  • Arming and disarming alerts will now also be displayed on the LED screen.
  • Monitoreal devices are now integrated with major alarm-receiving centers and monitoring station software packages by Securithor, Sentinel, and FROUROS.
  • Ukrainian language interface added.
  • Minor structural improvements and bug fixes.

August 18th, 2022

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

July 28th, 2022

  • Introducing input delays for the relay to sync up your Monitoreal with alarm panels.
  • Bug fixes and minor tweaks.

July 08th, 2022

  • Bug fixes and minor tweaks.

June 30th, 2022

  • Introducing profiles for your Monitoreal device. Now you can arm the system when you leave home and disarm upon your return. Alternatively you can set external cameras to work in both profiles. Activate Monitoreal with the “/arm” or “/disarm” Telegram commands or from the web user interface or Monitoreal relays.
  • Create a backup of your camera settings with the new download/upload feature or copy/paste the same settings across multiple Monitoreal devices.
  • Download the snapshots archive to a USB stick or drive to store all the detections as required.
  • Improved detection quality and stability.
  • Bug fixes and minor improvements.

April 14th, 2022

  • The ‘audio module’ is now available to connect to your bluetooth speaker. Coupled with the relay actions, you can create different scenarios to deter an intruder from breaking into your property. Upload any audio file and link to your relay and/or smart plug to create a sequence of events to make burglars think people are home and awake and a barking dog is about to attack. This will deter 90% of intruders who will walk away.
  • Alerts and relay/audio actions can now be decoupled thanks to the new Alerts switch in every rule you configure.
  • Object detection minimal accuracy can now be set per rule. This adds greater flexibility to fine tune alerts and minimise false positives.
  • Delayed alerts of an object present can now be set with the ‘Loitering delay’ option. This will ignore objects passing by, only detecting loitering people or cars being parked in the camera field of view when the threshold time has been exceeded.
  • Minimal notifications interval in seconds has been renamed to ‘Loitering reminder’ (for tooltip information, click the question mark button).
  • Keyframe mode for capturing streams can now be enabled in the ‘System’ tab. This is useful for camera brands/models that have limited or no Snapshot mode functionality, allowing the Monitoreal device to process up to 6 channels in Stream Mode.

February 03th, 2022

  • Minor stability improvements.
  • Bug fixes.

January 14th, 2022

  • Improved ghost filter for live objects.
  • RFC7616 HTTP Digest Access Authentication for new camera models.
  • Telegram bot name is now available in the Alerts tab of the WUI.
  • Camera connection error reports switch is now available at the WUI.
  • Alerts on/off switch is now available at the WUI, this feature was previously only available by the “/notify” Telegram command.
  • Webhooks message now contains device serial number.
  • H265 codec stream mode now available.
  • Internal structural improvements.

December 16th, 2021

  • Bug fixes.

December 09th, 2021

  • Detection zones can now be triggered to send alerts by either the centre of the object or the perimeter of the bounding box.
  • Cleaner detection zone preview set-up and the web user interface is now also fully optimized for mobile device use.
  • Improved accuracy of false alerts filter.
  • Minor stability improvements.

October 24th, 2021

  • Significantly improved object detection and classification quality for both Standard and DeepSight modes.
  • The LED screen can now be turned upside down for wall mounting or turned off completely when necessary.
  • Monitoreal Relays and Smart Plugs can now be put into Strobe Mode in order to make intruders panic and walk away.
  • Detection zones can now be configured per each rule separately. Global Detection Zones will be applied to cameras which have no individual zone(s).
  • A new object- Elephant- has been added as suggested by Penta, our Indian distributor.
  • The /report command has been improved. The dates menu will now only contain the real dates with snapshots/videos that are actually stored at this particular moment.
  • Bug fixes.

September 06th, 2021

  • You can now use multiple network interfaces including external USB Ethernet, USB Wi-FI or USB Cellular modem and specify which one is the main gateway for sending alerts. When the main gateway is not available, the user will receive a notification of that and the alerts will be sent the first network interface that has a working connection to the Internet.
  • The main web-interface now has the Live Stream button to make it obvious how to watch live video online when this web-interface is available.
  • Bug fixes and minor improvements.

July 15th, 2021

  • Bug fixes.

June 25th, 2021

  • Bug fixes.

June 23th, 2021

  • Updated Telegram “/logs” command.
  • Bug fixes.

June 08th, 2021

  • Updated Telegram “/camera” command. You can now modify the full list of camera settings the same way you can do it via the web-user interface. Now an installer won’t have to visit the customer’s site to increase the OD minimum accuracy by 10%- everything can be done remotely without exposing your Monitoreal device to external threats with port forwarding as still suggested by some analytics providers.
  • Minor bug fixes.

May 28th, 2021

  • New web user interface home page now includes camera live view and events feed.
  • New fast and reliable firmware update engine introduced.
  • Previous landing page has been moved to the separate Archive tab.
  • Only objects specified by the rules will be detected and stored in the Archive tab from now on.
  • Monitoreal Relay and Outlet will now use MQTT protocol instead of HTTP. A user will now always be aware of the current status of the relays and smart plugs/outlets and will be immediately notified if any device has gone offline for any reason.
  • Users can now choose a primary gateway among available network interfaces. This gateway will now be prioritized when accessing Internet for sending alerts.
  • French and Portuguese locales are now available.
  • Slack alerts engine redesigned for the new Slack API.
  • Improved stability and minor bug fixes.
  • We strongly recommend that you reboot the device after this update.

February 26th, 2021

  • New Telegram commands:
    /arm – Enable/Re-enable all active cameras
    /disarm – Disable all active cameras
    /system – Telegram command updated. The new format will also be showing your networking information including your external IP address
  • Pro devices stability improved.
  • New date formats added.
  • Date format consistency improved.
  • Fan has now become quieter.
  • System health check introduced at start-up and at recovery/reset to improve stability.
  • New Monitoreal Recovery Utility 1.1.0 now available to download with detailed walk through the process on your computer screen and on the device’s LED.
  • Minor interface locale fixes.
  • Minor stability improvements and bug fixes.

December 30th, 2020

  • Bug fixes.

December 30th, 2020

  • Bug fixes.

December 03th, 2020

  • Fully automatic and semi-automatic triggering of Monitoreal Relay.
  • Static IP address now enabled.
  • Multi-language notification system.
  • Manually added cameras’ links can now be edited.
  • The German language support added.
  • New interface for zones of detection.
  • Deep Sight Mode detection has become even more accurate.
  • Standard Mode night detection quality improved.
  • Bug fixes and minor improvements.

September 10th, 2020

  • New telegram bot commands:
    /relay – controls Monitoreal Relay channels
  • WiFi is now enabled. You have to use Ethernet to connect to the device at first as before, but after you’ve logged in, go to the menu in the upper right corner and choose Network to set up WiFi. We can now use two different network interfaces to have our device in both the camera network set up by an NVR and another network connected to the Internet to send alerts in case you have the CCTV system mounted this way.
  • Monitoreal WiFi Electric Relay is now integrated and can be used to remotely control electric circuits in a secure mode via Telegram messenger. It’s a 4 channel electric relay that sits in an electric panel mounted on a DIN Rail, but can be installed separately anywhere. All 4 channels are independent and can work with any voltage up to 240V and power up to 1400 Watts for every channel. It’s connected to your home WiFi network and receives commands from an MR device via a secured protocol. Currently you can only manage it manually with the /relay command in the Telegram messenger, but we will proceed with a fully automatic option based on the rules and a combined one with a manual approval by clicking a button that will come with an alert. All the circuits may both be turned on and off if they are mainly kept on for a pre-defined period of time. You can use it to turn on/off lights, alarm, locks and opening/closing gates or whatever appliances you wish to power on or off.
  • Introducing Deep Sight Mode for the Pro version of the device. Use for up to 6 channels, if you need better night vision and distanced/smaller objects detection. Otherwise we suggest that you use Standard Mode for faster detection and alerts.
  • Camera search algorithm significantly improved. An option to connect to a specific camera by it’s IP address automatically is now available.
  • For those of you who have purchased Monitoreal Security Assistant after September 15th, your device has the reset button enabled. If you need to recover your device for any reason keeping your data, press it with a staple or a pin and hold until it counts until 8 and then release. Make sure Monitoreal is connected to the Internet at that moment, so that it can pull the latest firmware update from our update server and wait until the recovery is over. If it’s not connected, you will have the latest previously downloaded version installed. You will see progress messages on the LED then until the process is over. In order to make a full factory reset press and hold the button until it counts over 9 and release when you see a message of the factory reset. Remember all your personal data and settings will be deleted once you’ve selected full recovery reset.
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

July 21th, 2020

  • Significantly improved object detection algorithm for a Pro version. Pro will now be able to detect small objects and have a much better night vision.
  • Counting objects is now improved and working as initially intended. Now if you set up a count for example to 3 persons, you will get notified when 3rd person comes into camera’s view and get another notification when he leaves. This count with our Pro model may now be used as a COVID-19 density control function for restaurants and shops. Previously you’d only get notified when the last person would leave the camera view.
  • When a camera stops responding and delivering a stream or snapshots, the system will wait 5 minutes before sending a message that the camera went offline.
  • But if this would happen at least 5 times within the last 24 hours, the system would notify a user to check the camera.
  • Message “Camera is OFFLINE/ONLINE” has been replaced with “Camera is not responding/connection established”.
  • Camera search has been significantly improved. It won’t stall anymore because of DVR/NVR or other devices failing to response according to ONVIF standard.
  • A user can now see what devices were found what response they provided to our system’s request during the search. Other camera search bugs have also been fixed.
  • A bug when cameras of the same model would become confused when a router would distribute new IP addresses has been fixed.
  • Default Minimal notifications interval is now set to 30 seconds for a person or other objects and 1 hour for vehicle.
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

April 17th, 2020

  • New telegram bot commands:
    /update – check if new update is available and launch update process
  • New update notification mechanism: web user interface will now show update status and notify you when the process is over.
  • Fixed issue with camera search when it didn’t show results with the first launch.
  • Camera preview stability improved.
  • Internal self-diagnostics added.

March 12th, 2020

  • New telegram bot commands:
    /system – display system information such as model, serial number, software version, system information, CPU load, RAM
    /logs – download system logs archive directly to your Telegram app
    /restart – reboot your Monitoreal Video Security Assistant remotely
  • Improved stability of Telegram API connection.
  • Improved fan control algorithm.
  • Improved stream processing algorithm.
  • Fixed issue with false notifications of camera being online/offline.

February 18th, 2020

  • New telegram bot commands:
    /camera – disable all object detection and snapshots storage from the selected camera by Monitoreal Assistant. Note that if you have a DVR/NVR, it will still be able to record footage from this camera unless disabled separately
    /notify – disable notifications from the selected camera. Objects will continue to be detected and stored locally by the Monitoreal Assistant and can be checked up later from the web-user interface

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