Auto-hotspot tile that follows motion
A wall tile that can auto-follow the most-recently-moved camera in a configured set, with a 4-second dwell. Like the spotter in a security room, without the security room.
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A wall tile that can auto-follow the most-recently-moved camera in a configured set, with a 4-second dwell. Like the spotter in a security room, without the security room.
Place ONVIF d-pad, zoom, home, focus, iris, and preset buttons anywhere on a PTZ camera's live tile. Resizable, snap-aligning, renamable, per-camera.
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Clips auto-zoom to the motion bounding box for the first few seconds, then ease back out. Pinch-zoom on top for the parts that matter.
Controlled A/B at the wall meter. NVDEC cost an extra 32 W (105 W vs 73 W) for the same 11 fps-capped sub-streams. CPU wins at this scale; VAAPI and an admin-selectable decode mode shipped alongside.
Ran a 42-agent audit on "what would a stranger need to install this." Verdict: not distributable yet. Wrote a 6-phase roadmap aimed at zero hand-editing. A lot of Phase 0 has since shipped.
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A 48-agent audit of every code path that could lose footage. Verdict: footage is roughly 80% solid. Found three real problems including a missing automated backup. The most uncomfortable finding is the most important to publish.
Storage rules used to be per-camera. Now you can name a policy (retention, motion mode, recording profile) and attach a group of cameras to it. Per-camera overrides still work for edge cases.
First major architectural audit. 33 agents in parallel asked "what's working, what's missing, what would a serious operator notice." The direction was right; the gaps were in operations and reliability, not in the architecture.
A short note when something noteworthy ships. No drip campaign.
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