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6.1.9

• can disable hardware recording indicator
• report more dependent library versions in recnode-version

6.1.8

• updated imgstore
• support for flir/spinnaker version 3.x

6.1.7

• fix handling of ordered config in console and multicam copy

6.1.6

• improve recnode-view-stream error messages
• fix recnode-view-stream with multiple cameras
• improve type inference with camera parameters
• recnode-view-stream supports bayer encoded streams

6.1.5

• add connnect/disconnect all to REST API
• fix wrong realtime stream information in rare multicam situations
• realtime stream can be bound to an interface IP
• expose timezone in camera status API
• add recnode-view-stream command to view a remote stream and frame information
• can explicitly specify the web-browser system wide

6.1.4

• hide more UI elements in slave UI when slave EnableRecord=false
• improve copy/move behavior when multicam slaves use different recording directories
• add IPC and recnode-control commands to fetch remote camera actual config
• fix Motif6 rare race condition crashes on multicamera systems which sync before recording
• add --connect-all and --disconnect-all to multicam api (command and REST)

6.1.3

• fix loopy upload

6.1.2

• add rotation support MotifImageRotate
• fix loopbio triggerbox issues
• fix firefox browser launch for snap firefox installs

6.1.1

• bugfixes for backend names and web-index

6.1.0

• support new arena sdk including, lucid 10G camera support, chunk timestamp support
• support ptp sync for lucid cameras
• support new ptp sync mode for basler ace2
• add a debug viewer recnode-backend-camera-view
• more reset modes for cameras (reboot, soft, hard) and support reseting cameras with recnode-backend-camera-reset
• support explicit ordering of camera parameter config
• removed PerCamera single-camera stanza. camera specific config files are preferred.

6.0.0

• python3

5.2.5 * benchmark tool: add bayer decoding * benchmark tool: add thread limiting of ffmpeg and opecv

5.2.4

• fix remaining time in UI
• add recnode-transcode command

5.2.3

• add new jetson codecs
• export to store should respect ffmpeg path
• configurable fullsize image preview width
• show recording duration remaining
• show durations longer than 24 hours correctly
• multicam triggerbox auto-config of cameras to hardware trigger mode now respects camera serial number whitelist
• allow starting blacklisted cameras in multicam setups but have them still ignored from triggerbox harder trigger autoconfig (above)
• support stream parameters in Spinnaker, also setting buffer mode explicitly to NewestOnly
• add recnode-control --list-cameras to list locally connected cameras

5.2.2

• fix color codec detection on ace2 cameras
• support setting other configuration parameters, including default values, on phidgets
• support multiple IO UI elements targeting the same IO device (so can have switch and slider)
• recnode-control supports setting IO
• recnode-control supports getting IO
• add a 'remote' io backend to redirect config to another recnode io process

5.2.1

• added camera undistortion using loopy based intrinsic calibrations
• fixed G/B whitebalance setting on spinnaker
• also set recording indicator in the manual sync case (SynchronizeOnRecordStart=False) although only precisely synchronous setting of the recording indicator signal with the first saved from is supported in the SynchronizeOnRecordStart=True condition
• fix hvec in multi-GPU situations
• fix 421 temperature error in new Basler cameras
• fix ZMQ backend camera crashes in multicam case
• show actions in web-index in custom mode
• can disable chunk timestamp and use system time on Spinnaker

5.2.0

• (bugfix) more reliable setting of AcquisitionFramerateEnabled (note the D)
• can add binary/switch camera parameters to UI
• (bugfix) misformed copy paths on windows crash rsync
• (bugfix) could not hide recording metadata
• dont set USB params on GigE cameras and vice-versa
• dont show camera temperature if unavailable
• dont show camera adjustments if disabled (null)
• can whitelist cameras in a Multicamera setup
• support ptp synchronization in multicamera setups
• (bugfix) always set LineSelector before LineSource
• recnode-control --read can read camera parameters
• (bugfix) fix multicamera master ui re-attach to camera nodes after master restart
• add nvenc-slow-yuv420-lq30 codec
• (bugfix) fix failure to quit cameras when cameras cannot acquire images
• (bugfix) work around SDK bug and reduce polling interval in certain configurations
• refactor camera IO line configuration for recording status support
• add support for starting recording from camera IO lines
• add support for uploading directly to loopy
• (bugfix) fix export to store from store
• (bugfix) also save gainabs and auto-exposure config to metadata
• add suppport for audio recording as an IO backend
• add MCC usb DAQ support to recnode-io
• (bugfix) incorrect store image shape with native color cameras
• prevent conflicting trigger and AcquisitionFramerateEnable
• (bugfix) do not prevent other trigger lines on non-loopbio triggerboxes
• lucid camera support
• add recnode-top (htop like system monitor)
• can adjust number of encoding threads
• adjustable process priority for IO process (reduces audio latency)
• multi-camera can autostart cameras
• show camera status in multicamera index page
• multi-camera can synchronize via command line or REST
• all camera parameters can now be set over API
• (bugfix) stop some half-framerate problems with hardware trigger on FLIR cameras
• (bugfix) hide lost+found directory
• (linux only) web-index serial number based redirects to camera
• (bugfix) only list video compatible v4l devices
• (bugfix) prevent infinite loop exporting on broken stores
• show a status icon on linux always
• compulsory metadata support
• support feeltech trigger devices
• better error message when externally triggered and trigger is not connected
• timelapse support
• photo mode (programatically schedule single photos to be taken)
• (bugfix) loopbio triggerbox only supports Line1 trigger sources
• can write messages to be logged in extra-data (json backend only) via REST API
• can read IO values from REST API
• moving files (from the API) now ignores currently recording imgstores yet still copies completed chunks, which makes it safe to call/schedule regularly in order to keep extremely long recordings synchronized on storage
• (bugfix) difficulty starting >10 cameras in some multicam configurations
• (bugfix) scheduled tasks are sorted in the UI
• can specify custom CSS for the web interface
• support remote (network) phidgets
• a generic HTTP io backend
• a shell command io backend
• a zmq camera backend
• (bugfix) write imgstore chunk extension for forward compatibility
• (bugfix) dont stop move/copy rsync when the disk is full
• arena camera bugfixes (skipped frame accounting and motif launcher)
• rest API reports free disk space

5.1.0

• (bugfix) fix crash during montage
• (bugfix) prevent failed recording due to unknown framerate
• (bugfix) show administration link when accessing web-index page from localhost
• can configure stream parameters (Basler/cypylon on Linux only)
• support for phidget RTC sensors
• (bugfix) defensively stop acquisition at camera start
• (bugfix) fix IO failing to show in the UI in certain public IP multicam scenarios
• support for adjusting process priority
• (bugfix) no frame detection based on host time and not camera time
• add imgstore backend
• (new config) adjustable zoom percent CameraPreviewZoomPercent
• (new config) can disable browser image interpolation CameraPreviewDisableBrowserInterpolation
• (bugfix) IO label not shown in UI
• can add extra experiment metadata

5.0.0

• point-gray / FLIR camera support (spinnaker backend)
• limited legacy point-gray camera support (pycapture2 backend)
• add a single command launcher (motif)
• add a status/notifaction icon
• support 18.04 and other distributions by trimming dependencies
• support older Flycapture2 backend
• live video streaming over zmq
• live state streaming over zmq
• FFmpegPath can be defined in config file
• run on Windows 10
• nicer test pattern
• limit number of recordings shown in UI for performance
• detect when camera stops sending images (such as accidental trigger cable unplugging)
• can start recording for specified duration
• display elapsed recording duration in multicam view
• complete camera specific configuration for multicamera setups
• improved IO support for shared IO configurations (IO shared across multiple physical machines via the loopbio-lcdscreen)
• can arbitrarily add IO control to web UI
• frequency output for recnode-io
• IO can be logically associated and separated per camera
• show camera resolution more prominately in the UI
• show recording location in UI
• improved startup stability with complex external trigger / IO configurations
• can log IO outputs to .io.json files chunked beside recordings
• can add per-camera video recording relative time scheduled operations, e.g. 'every 5 minutes when recording', or 'at :30 on the 5th and 10th minute'
• can schedule recording stop time explicitly (in according to recording duration)
• warn if configured to save videos to a temporary directory
• the web-index should only show links to the admin page if accessible (i.e if accessed via localhost)
• special support for toggling DigitalOutput IO
• can clear and show next execution times for scheduled tasks from the single camera UI
• users can define experimental scripts in python which can be executed from the user interface in order to schedule and program subsequent events, including I/O
• tabbed multicam interface to match single cam one
• can set IO and edit scheduled events from the multicam interface
• launching motif twice will open a browser to the running instance (windows)
• fixed interval sampling of defined IO sensors (supports multiple backends). data logged to file and shown in the user interface
• can schedule camera parameter changes
• ZMQ backend for out-of-process IO
• camera and multicam specific config files are applied on top of one another, rather than replacing one another, which means more specific config files need only contain what differs
• improved accuracy actual framerate estimation for variable FPS situations (such as parameter changes)
• can record videos at native FPS in non-imgstore scenarios
• show camera details on configure tab too
• can disable / configure experiment script and script interpreter
• improved web UI performance with many cameras
• different backends and / or cameras can use different codecs despite being started at the same time in a multicamera arrangement
• allow the user to select if they record to store or not

4.4.3

• fix returning filenames over API for multicamera case

4.4.2

• improved debouncing of buttons in web ui

4.4.1

• fixes for network cameras
• can set digital output 0 high when starting recording automatically after synchronization
• better recovery from crashed recording/camera processes

4.4.0

• generalized input/output support

4.3.1

• try to survive crashed ffmpeg
• better error messages with crashed ffmpeg

4.3.0

• add --print-rsync to recnode-control
• add recnode-webbrowser 'GUI' wrapper to launch browser
• show multicam mode in recnode-control
• add a configure 'target' preview to help camera alignment
• add documentation link
• show buffer usage with only 1 decimal place
• show camera temperature
• auto-synchronize when starting multicam recordings if triggerbox connected
• restrict manual synchronization to once per recording
• disallow recording if triggerbox is required and not detected
• show size of stores on export/copy tab
• disable moving data while recording
• add montage support to allow exporting synchronized recordings to a single video montage
• reload broken images / camera streams
• loopy upload support for multicam systems
• fix a bug sometimes setting offset/width the first time

4.1.5

• fix failure to import mp4 stores to loopy

4.1.4

• fix single cam setups not honouring ExportToStore

4.1.3

• fix export-all with index mode

4.1.2

• fix filename appending for scheduled recordings
• fix zombie cameraproxy connections to remote multicam systems

4.1.1

• fix display of recordings in index mode

4.1.0

• show scheduled operations in multicamera UI
• show in the multicamera UI when cameras have died
• add --clear-schedule to recnode control
• set title in metadata from filename if otherwise undefined
• clearer disk full warning
• bugfixes in scheduler
• fix sorting by date
• fix filenames with scheduled recordings by adding date when executed

4.0.3

• add --list-schedule to recnode-control
• independent recording directories in index mode

4.0.2

• fix 'lost+found' directory handling

4.0.1

• can add links to recnode-web-index
• always start a localhost registry so that mode=index always shows links
• add clearer RECORD_CONF[EnableExport] config switch
• fix export delete after ('move') to network locations
• recnode-version can print configured backup location

4.0.0

• add a web REST api and associated python API https://github.com/loopbio/python-motifapi (it is preferred that you use this for controlling recordings instead of the command line client over ssh)
• add scheduler for scheduling recordings and other operations. this feature is only accessible over the REST api for now
• add preview transforms:
• false-color maps can now show lighting irregularities
• focus
• can crop to the centre 40% of the frame for fine-tuning
• opt-in show saturated pixels (previously was automatically shown only if configured)
• add a 'focus' / 'sharpness' transform which highlights edges to help focusing on fine details
• add ability to automatically stop recording after a specified time (available only via the REST api and from recnode-control
• add 'delete after copy', i.e. 'Move' and 'delete after export' modes
• can differentially enable/disable EnableCopy, EnableMove, EnableEject
• add integration with loopy. videos can be automatically added to the configured user account after copy to shared storage (supported in the web-ui, recnode-control, and the REST api)
• support multiple Ximea cameras
• add camera-specific config in configuration file. this allows setting differential default settings per camera
• add support for assigning specific cameras to specific GPUs
• add recnode-api-key command line tool for generating/printing api key for REST api
• more consistently show / use camera serial number in UI and recnode-control
• don't leak underlying codec name at export
• adjustable preview FPS (was fixed at 2fps)
• bugfix: survive interrupted socket reads
• show direct links to cameras from the web-index if configured in index mode
• fix limitation that cameras can only be stop/started 50 times per session
• color the disk full indicator red
• switch default FPS to 25fps
• bugfix: really wait for stores to be flushed before attempting to copy/export them

3.1.4

• be careful with paths/identifiers using opencv backend

3.1.3

• web-ui: dont touch DOM until websock connection is up

3.1.2

• web-ui: fix javascrip focus bug

3.1.1

• fix for multicam setups with IPC IP on public ports

3.1.0

• recnode-control can address cameras individually

3.0.0

• add support for multiple backends (opencv, ximea, basler)

2.8.0

• add another mode to the multicam concept - 'index' - like slave, but direct links to cameras are added to the web-index and to the GUI
• selectable temperature sensor

2.7.5

• UI can show temperature

2.7.4

• prevent failed exports freezing export process
• multicamera-recorder: show an eject button if copy/export is enabled
• recnode-console: can list recordings
• add the ability to export all videos at once

2.7.3

• don't mangle decimal point in float metadata

2.7.2

• show file sizes in single-camera case
• recnode-control improvements (can record to 'store' format, i.e. splits recordings into multiple files
• more UI feedback for multi-camera hardware synchronization. use synchronization relative framenumber
• transcoding/export support for multi-camera recording nodes
• UI improvements for multi-camera recorder on small screens

2.7.1

• capitalise UI lavels
• fix ui errors on the slaves when hardware trigger is otherwise configures *

2.7.0

• add hardware trigger and synchronization support across multi master/slave setups
• add a chain mode where upon hardware signal we can start recording in a multi/single cam setup
• store hwframerate in metadata
• add export and (removable) copy support to multi-camera setups
• gui: better status on export tab
• recnode-control: can record to store
• gui: show file size
• gui: don't show camera parameters as adjustable from slave

2.6.0

• gui: spinbuttons now adjust camera parameters in addition to the sliders
• gui: style and webgui improvements for small screens
• multicamera-recorder: can now adjust individual camera parameters
• multicamera-recorder: improved support for extra metadata
• recnode-console: improved support for multiple cameras
• config: move multicam config to its own section 'MultiCam'. Per camera configuration can be specified by using the new 'PerCamera' config section

2.5.0

• added the ability to attache any metadata you want to recordings 'title', 'genotype', 'what-i-had-for-breakfast'. each field can be filled out in the GUI and will then be saved in the resulting video (you can extract / see this metadata using VLC or most other movie players.
• the framerate, exposure, gain, and any other camera settings are also saved as metadata (see above)
• each system can be assigned a more memorable name which will be shown in the user interface (should help you remember which system you are working on)
• UI improvements to multicamera gui
• you can now specify the filename of the files instead of them having only the date/time filename (please talk to me how to enable this)
• added a command line client to control recordings. If you like SSHing into your machine, you can now start or stop recordings, or start file uploads, using the new recnode-control command line tool