Watcher v.25.04

🔎 Why Upgrade to Watcher 25.04?

✔ Smarter Analytics — Detect car movement direction and enhanced license plate recognition ✔ Better Mobile Experience — New map screen (iOS) and optimized event cards for mobile ✔ Improved Security — Pincode protection and refined user permission controls ✔ Faster Performance — Optimized APIs and reduced app loading times ✔ Enhanced Monitoring — New telemetry and stability improvements for large-scale deployments

📊 Top New Features

AI & Analytics Enhancements

• Car Direction Detection: Detect vehicle movement direction for traffic monitoring, parking enforcement, and incident forensics. (#8347)
• Smartcam/Iris:
• Motion detector now supports http+iris protocol for seamless episode retrieval
• Recognize smaller license plates previously ignored. (#49773)
• Detection Zone Customization - Set titles and detection types per zone for clearer monitoring (#48488)

User Experience & Mobile

• iOS Map Screen - Visualize camera locations and events geographically (#45664)
• Redesigned Event Cards - Compact, expandable event views for desktop/mobile (#48493)
• Pincode Protection - Secure app access with customizable pincodes (#49363)

Administration & API

• vsaas.io Login - Streamlined authentication for cloud deployments (#45410)
• Camera Sorting - Sort cameras by title in lists and APIs (#45648, #47055)
• Episode Previews - Updated caching system for faster thumbnail loading (#48958)

🛠 System Optimizations & Fixes

Performance & Stability

• Faster app updates with optimized build pipeline (#42870)
• Improved API response times for /organizations and folder_list (#48090, #49082)
• Anonymous usage data collection for proactive issue detection (#45023, #48954)
• Added last_change and last_episode_at to stream API (#49419)
• Agents connection speed improved 10x (#49730, #40801)
• New node_layout_decisions endpoint for stream relocation insights (#48879)

Monitoring & Playback

• Fixed archive playback issues when clicking events (#48369)
• Expanded video source support in player (#45801)
• Resolved DVR expiration configuration in API (#49152)

API & Backend Improvements

• Added last_change and last_episode_at to stream API (#49419)
• Agents connection speed improved 10x (#49730, #40801)
• New node_layout_decisions endpoint for stream relocation insights (#48879)

UI Improvements

• New user management interface (#47916)
• Dedicated persons page (#49421)