Live build status

Roadmap.

What's shipped, what's being built right now, and what's queued between today and the v1.0 release. Updated as items land — no vapourware on this list.

Progress to v1.0

82%

48 shipped

1 in progress

10 planned

59 milestones

Now

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1 Observability — metrics, healthz endpoint, rotating logs
2 CI gate — automated test run on every pull request
3 Recording schedule profiles — Home / Away / Night / Vacation modes with time-based switching
4 Timestamp burn-in — camera name and wall-clock OSD overlay on recordings
5 Hardware-accelerated AI — Coral, OpenVINO, Core ML, Hailo, TensorRT backends
6 Per-zone sensitivity and per-label cooldown timers
7 Home Assistant — auto-creates camera and sensor entities via MQTT discovery
8 Privacy masks — polygon blackout regions on live view and recordings

By area

Every milestone counted in the v1.0 progress bar above, grouped by what part of the system it touches.

Foundation

7 / 9 shipped

Shipped Core security — bcrypt, rate-limited login, biometric passkeys
Shipped Web hardening — CSP, non-root container, signed binaries, atomic config writes
Shipped Config integrity & resilience — schema versioning, serialised writes, silent-failure surfacing
Shipped Privacy-scrubbed log export
Shipped Bundled go2rtc with auto-install — zero-config streaming engine, pinned version, SHA-verified binary
Planned Observability — metrics, healthz endpoint, rotating logs
Shipped Integration test harness — in-process broker, isolated state per test, 525+ unit and integration tests
Shipped Playwright e2e suite — fixture-mode server with synthetic streams, full page-to-API coverage
Planned CI gate — automated test run on every pull request

Recording

6 / 8 shipped

Shipped Continuous 24/7 recording with disk-space management
Shipped Motion-triggered recording with preroll and audio
Shipped Hardware-accelerated motion detection and transcode — Intel VAAPI
Shipped Tunable export quality — Small / Standard / High / Original, per-clip picker on every download surface
Shipped Detection boxes baked into clip downloads — labelled bounding boxes burnt into the video stream
Shipped Always-on H.264 transcoding — per-camera flag for reliable iPhone playback regardless of camera codec
Planned Recording schedule profiles — Home / Away / Night / Vacation modes with time-based switching
Planned Timestamp burn-in — camera name and wall-clock OSD overlay on recordings

Storage & Retention

2 / 2 shipped

Shipped Per-camera retention policies — independent day counts for continuous and motion footage
Shipped Config backup & restore — export and reimport all settings, passkeys, and per-device preferences

Timeline & Playback

4 / 4 shipped

Shipped Single-camera timeline — live edge, archive scrubbing, iOS-native HLS playback
Shipped Scrub magnetism — events snap into place under the playhead during drag
Shipped Multi-camera synchronized timeline
Shipped Substream auto-selection for large camera grids — "low data mode"

Live View & UX

12 / 12 shipped

Shipped Live streaming — WebRTC, fMP4, HLS, and ManagedMediaSource (iOS 17.1+) with automatic browser fallback
Shipped Smart grid — justified layouts, featured camera row, per-device reorder
Shipped HomeKit-style fullscreen — edge-to-edge video with auto-hiding chrome, MAIN/SUB stream toggle, deep-link to events
Shipped iPhone streaming optimization — sub-second first frame on iOS 17.1+, no Safari peer-connection limit issues, instant resume on close
Shipped Snapshot warmup + stream health monitoring
Shipped Sidebar activity summary — last event time, clip count, REC indicator, resolution, and live bitrate per camera
Shipped Inline clip playback — open recent-activity clips in the main viewer without leaving the dashboard; grid streams stay warm for instant return to live
Shipped Per-camera grid visibility — hide any camera from the grid (stream stops) directly from the sidebar; persisted across sessions
Shipped Hover clip preview — 4× speed video preview on mouse-over in the Recent Activity panel
Shipped First-run setup wizard — 5-step onboarding from zero to live cameras with auto-redirect and one-click dismiss
Shipped Predefined themes — multiple palette presets, persisted per device
Shipped Bandwidth monitoring — live per-camera bitrate display in the grid and stream-info badges

Detection & AI

5 / 7 shipped

Shipped Local AI object detection — bundled YOLOv8 via ONNX Runtime, no cloud round-trip, no CPAI dependency
Shipped Per-camera AI tuning — confidence floors, label filters, motion-aware confirmation gate, track-stability requirement
Shipped Detection bounding boxes on the timeline and in clips — labelled object regions stored per event
Shipped Replay harness — synthetic camera type with fixture library and admin replay browser; deterministic regression testing
Shipped Pipeline observability — traceId from motion → AI → trigger → clip → DB, ring-buffer diagnostics endpoint
Planned Hardware-accelerated AI — Coral, OpenVINO, Core ML, Hailo, TensorRT backends
Planned Per-zone sensitivity and per-label cooldown timers

Notifications

3 / 3 shipped

Shipped Native push notifications — motion thumbnail delivered to your phone within seconds
Shipped Outbound webhooks — HTTP callback on motion, detection, and camera-offline events
Shipped MQTT event publishing — motion start/end, last event, camera state, system heartbeat, retained availability with LWT

Camera Integrations

3 / 5 shipped

Shipped Ring — live HLS streaming, snapshot motion detection, motion-triggered recording, continuous streaming for wired cameras
Shipped ONVIF — network discovery with per-device credential probing and live snapshot preview; one-click add from wizard or settings
Shipped External go2rtc import — pull streams from an existing go2rtc instance with per-camera source routing
Planned Home Assistant — auto-creates camera and sensor entities via MQTT discovery
Planned Privacy masks — polygon blackout regions on live view and recordings

Access & Users

5 / 6 shipped

Shipped Multi-user with admin and viewer roles
Shipped Per-camera access control for viewer accounts
Shipped Guest links — time-limited, no account required
Shipped Time-boxed access — auto-expiring grants with pause / resume / revoke
Shipped Setup-link enrollment — invite by link, register a passkey, no shared password
Planned Audit log of admin actions

Launch

1 / 3 shipped

Shipped Architecture documentation
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Planned CHANGELOG + signed releases

Beyond v1.0

Bigger pieces queued for after the v1 launch sprint. Each one is substantial enough to be its own release, and several have already had design work — they're staged here so the v1 milestones don't get crowded.

→ Hardware-accelerated AI — Coral, OpenVINO, Core ML, Hailo, NVIDIA TensorRT
→ Audio detection — fire alarm, glass break, barking, speech
→ License plate recognition
→ Semantic video search — find footage by describing it in plain text
→ Multimodal LLM scene narration — natural-language event summaries (Ollama-local or cloud-API)
→ Active learning — false-alert tagging trains your installation over time
→ HomeKit Secure Video — cameras appear natively in Apple Home
→ PTZ camera control — pan, tilt, zoom, and presets via ONVIF
→ Two-way audio / intercom — talk through any supported camera
→ Tiered storage — hot disk for recent, archive path for older footage
→ Off-site backup — push to S3, Backblaze B2, or SFTP
→ Clip locking — star clips to protect from auto-deletion
→ Camera groups — name and save multi-camera layouts
→ NVIDIA NVENC + Apple VideoToolbox hardware acceleration
→ Additional cloud camera integrations — Nest, Wyze, Arlo, Eufy
→ Remote-access cloud relay — no port-forward or VPN required
→ Evidence export with chain-of-custody manifest
→ OIDC SSO for team and enterprise deployments
→ Compliance bundle — encryption at rest, tamper-evident logs, GDPR tooling