Versions

Retail loss-prevention screen, camera groups, a live system status bar, and per-camera ONVIF encoder settings

• •New Retail screen for reviewing "possible theft" events flagged by on-device shoplifting/concealment detection, with its own per-user access permission
• •Live system status bar at the bottom of the main window — CPU, Memory, and Local Storage with green/orange/red thresholds, plus a live clock
• •Camera Groups: create and name groups, assign cameras to them, and filter the LiveView sidebar and Dashboard by group
• •Per-camera ONVIF encoder settings — Resolution, Encoding/Compression, Frame Rate, and Bitrate/Quality for every media profile a camera advertises
• •Camera Tampering Detection: flags a sustained lens-covered/sprayed/blurred or physically-repositioned camera, records a clip, and sends an urgent popup + email alert — a plain security basic, not license-gated
• •Fixed a freeze when opening a camera's Encoder Settings tab (or clicking Test Connection, which also loads it)

Evidence watermarking, two-way audio talk-back, and account lockout improvements

• •Clip exports can now be watermarked with a case note, timestamp, and exporter name burned into the video
• •Added two-way audio talk-back through the PC's own microphone/speaker hardware (e.g. outdoor horn speakers wired to the PC) — press-and-hold Talk button on the Dashboard, with device pickers and a test tone in Settings > Application
• •Sign-in lockout now warns on the last attempt before locking, and admins can unlock an account directly from the Users screen
• •Fixed a crash on every unknown-plate capture caused by a SQLite ordering limitation
• •Fixed uninstall not actually removing app data when "Remove data on uninstall" was selected

PTZ control, reseller remote-command support, and per-user screen permissions

• •Added PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) camera control, with ONVIF-based detection and a dedicated control window
• •Reseller portal can now remotely add/update/delete cameras, manage 3rd-party monitoring connections, change settings, and pull a full settings export, with an adaptive check-in interval for faster response
• •Added engineer-access grants so a partner's field engineer can jump straight into a site's live camera view from the mobile app, including sites without the paid hostname add-on
• •Added per-user screen permissions
• •Password reveal toggle added to every login field
• •Removed remember-me auto-login credential storage for security
• •Fixed a recording-retention crash
• •Cameras/Settings layout cleanup

Full remote settings on the partners portal, camera schedules, and scheduled auto-restart

• •Fixed two crash bugs: a camera-delete race in cloud storage settings save, and an unobserved exception in clip finalization
• •Fixed a false "Offline" camera status on the partners portal for idle-but-working cameras
• •Cameras sidebar button now only shows for accounts restricted to camera access
• •Every camera setting — recording mode, quality, motion, retention, audio, face detection, cloud storage — is now remotely editable from the partners portal, alongside People/Vehicles/Storage/Monitoring settings and a full remote settings export
• •Renamed "Plates" to "Vehicles" throughout the app
• •Added a scheduled auto-restart option for the Windows machine
• •Added per-camera weekly recording schedules (Settings > Cameras > Schedule tab) with day/time rules, a 24-hour toggle, and overlap-conflict detection — settable remotely from the partners portal too

Settings tab-strip fix and a redesigned Edit User dialog

• •Fixed the Settings tab strip's horizontal scrollbar rendering as a near-invisible dot, which made the Monitoring and Backup/Restore tabs unreachable for admins
• •Fixed the Cameras tab showing empty for admins who navigated in via Settings directly
• •Removed the redundant standalone Cameras sidebar button for full admin accounts — Settings' own Cameras tab already covers it
• •Edit User dialog redesigned into two columns instead of one long scrollable popup
• •Fresh installer rebuilt — now correctly appears in Windows' Add/Remove Programs after install

Hotfix: web portal playback and Settings admin tabs

• •Fixed web portal video playback — clips listed but never actually loaded after the 1.3.23 update
• •Fixed the Settings screen only showing the Cameras tab for admin accounts — every other admin tab (and the Users screen's Add User button) stayed hidden after signing in

Web portal security update and per-account permissions

• •Important security update for the web remote portal — if you use remote access, please update as soon as possible
• •Web portal is now usable on phones and tablets
• •New account permissions: only the main admin can create users, and admins can grant individual accounts access to specific screens (People, Plates, Playback, Cameras, Audit Log) instead of all-or-nothing
• •Remote-role accounts can no longer sign into the Windows software itself — web portal and mobile only, as intended
• •Cameras moved from the main sidebar into Settings; a new Web Portal button opens the remote portal in your browser
• •Auto sign-out after 3 minutes of inactivity in the Windows app and web portal

Account lockout protection and auto sign-out

• •Sign-in lockout: 3 failed attempts locks the account for 15 minutes, with a warning shown on the 2nd failed attempt — applies across the Windows app, web portal, and Android/iOS apps
• •Auto sign-out after 3 minutes of inactivity (Windows app and web portal) — the web portal shows a 15-second countdown warning first
• •Settings: fixed a duplicate Save button on the Plates tab, added a new People tab for face-detection settings, and moved Backup/Restore to the end of the tab list

Settings reorganization and a number-plate recognition retry fix

• •Moved Monitoring into Settings as its own tab (no longer a sidebar item)
• •Moved number-plate detection settings into a new Settings > Plates tab — the Plates screen itself still browses Known/Unknown Plates
• •Fixed number plate recognition only getting one OCR attempt per vehicle pass — it now retries quickly within the same sighting instead of waiting 60 seconds
• •Added a Delete All button to the Unknown Faces and Unknown Plates review queues

Rebuilt web remote portal with Live View, Playback, and Audit Log

• •Rebuilt the web remote portal with a full sidebar: Live View (1/2/4/6/8 grid layouts), Playback (browse and watch recorded clips), and a read-only Audit Log viewer
• •New Settings > Security tab for 2FA and remote access security status
• •Version/build number and an internet-connectivity indicator now show on the main window's sidebar
• •Low-storage warning: popup and email alert once your recordings drive crosses 90% full
• •Fixed invisible white-on-white text in the system tray right-click menu
• •Installer now creates a desktop shortcut and offers to launch NvrBlink right after setup finishes
• •Uninstalling now cleans up app settings and data, while leaving your recordings folder untouched
• •Fixed the Settings screen showing the internal remote-access URL as http:// when the server only serves HTTPS, which caused the web portal to fail to load
• •Fixed the About window not being closable, and moved Settings into the bottom nav group next to About
• •Commercial licenses now auto-connect a reseller-provisioned hostname and cloud storage, the same way domestic accounts already do

Trusted HTTPS certificates, 3rd-party monitoring access, and an auto-update fix

• •Remote Portal can now use a real Let's Encrypt certificate for your hostname instead of a self-signed one — no more browser "connection not private" warnings
• •3rd-party integrations: issue API-key access so a security-monitoring company can view your cameras without a full account
• •Fixed a shutdown-timing bug that could cause Check for Updates to silently relaunch the same version instead of the new one
• •Settings > Refresh Status no longer shows your hostname as "stale" when it's actually fine
• •Reworked setup: commercial installs now sign in and activate a license first, skipping the domestic account screen entirely

ANPR plate alerts, a live camera overlay, and a startup fix

• •Plate alerts: email plus a red-flashing, audible popup for plates you've flagged
• •A quieter notification option when the app is minimized
• •Live overlay on the Dashboard tile — outlines a detected plate and shows the text in real time
• •Commercial installs: reseller accounts are now required to set their own password on first login
• •Installer now bundles the .NET runtime, so it no longer requires anything preinstalled to run

Commercial licensing and number-plate recognition

• •Domestic or Commercial setup choice on first run
• •Commercial installs: license activation flow, plus Settings > Licensing for managing it afterwards
• •Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) pipeline

Multi-select playback, motion alert popups, and a round of UI fixes

• •Playback: select multiple recordings and play them back to back
• •Per-camera cloud storage opt-in — choose which cameras use your storage quota
• •Desktop popup with a live snapshot when a camera detects motion while the app is minimized
• •Mobile apps fall back to cloud storage for playback when a recording's local copy has been cleaned up
• •Fixed unreadable date pickers, a mislabelled camera dropdown, and camera settings clipped off-screen

Cloud storage backup and a free hostname for remote access

• •Cloud storage — back up recordings automatically to your own Bunny.net storage folder
• •Free hostname (e.g. yourname.nvrblink.co.uk) that stays pointed at this PC automatically, no need to track or update an IP address

Two-factor authentication, face detection, privacy masking

• •Optional TOTP two-factor authentication on login, with email fallback codes
• •On-device face detection — tags and triggers recording independently of motion detection, with its own sensitivity setting
• •Per-camera privacy mask regions, burned into recordings

First packaged Windows installer

• •Installable .msi build — no manual build/run required
• •Setup wizard: create the admin account, choose a media storage folder, enable autostart

Remote viewing

• •Self-hosted remote access API for the Remote and Admin roles
• •JWT-authenticated live viewing from outside the local network
• •Off by default — enabled per-deployment in Settings

Recording & motion detection

• •Continuous and motion-triggered recording, configurable per camera
• •Dual motion detection: ONVIF camera events plus independent frame-difference analysis
• •Configurable storage folder, segment length, and retention

Live dashboard

• •Drag-and-drop camera grid with 1/2/4/6/8/10/12 layouts
• •Automatic stream reconnect with backoff on drop-outs

ONVIF discovery

• •Local network scan for ONVIF devices via WS-Discovery
• •Full test-connection flow: reachability, authentication, media profiles, RTSP negotiation

Accounts & camera management

• •Admin / Remote / User roles with role-gated navigation
• •Add, edit, and remove cameras with encrypted credential storage

Initial build

• •Core application scaffold and local data storage

Clearer sign-in errors and a tablet-ready layout

• •Sign-in now shows the real reason a login failed (wrong password, account-lockout warning) instead of a generic error
• •Tablet-ready — sign-in and connection screens no longer stretch full-width on a large screen

Session-expiry handling, fullscreen grid tiles, and clip download

• •Handles a remembered login expiring gracefully — automatic sign-out and re-prompt instead of every request silently failing
• •Grid View tiles expand to fullscreen on tap, with the whole app going edge-to-edge
• •New About screen
• •Clickable web remote portal link in Settings
• •Download clips to your device's storage
• •Real app icon used consistently everywhere (was a generic placeholder in a few spots)
• •Per-connection grid layout — switching saved NVRs no longer leaks one server's camera layout into another
• •Survives screen rotation without losing your signed-in session

Recordings screen parity with desktop, and a certificate fix

• •Recordings screen brought in line with the desktop app's playback experience
• •Fixed a certificate-pinning bug that could block playback on some servers
• •Name your connections instead of just showing a hostname or IP
• •New app logo

Version bump to stay in step with the desktop app

• •No user-facing changes

Two-factor authentication, grid view, and certificate pinning

• •Two-factor authentication: provisioning plus rotating code entry on login
• •Grid view for live feeds — 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 tiles
• •TLS certificate pinning (trust-on-first-use) for a more secure connection to your server
• •Redesigned login screen with a splash screen and a remember-me option
• •Fixed a TLS issue that could block clip playback

Initial native Android app

• •Sign in to your NVRblink server's remote access API (Remote or Admin role)
• •Browse cameras and view live feeds from outside your home network