Kapal 1.9 is here—and it’s one of our biggest updates yet!
A Completely Revamped Live Camera View
The portrait camera experience has been rebuilt from the ground up. Your live video remains front and center, while useful information and controls are now conveniently available below the stream.
The new camera panel includes:
- Live connection and stream status
- Quick access to available stream qualities
- Active detection information
- Snapshot sharing
- Camera feature controls
- Recent camera events
New PTZ Camera Controls
Kapal+ users can now control compatible ONVIF PTZ cameras directly from the live view.
PTZ support includes:
- Pan and tilt controls
- Press-and-hold directional movement
- Zoom in and out
- Direction pad and joystick control styles
- Compact and expanded control sizes
- Quick access to camera presets
Cloudflare Tunnel Support — Beta
Kapal can now connect to Frigate servers running behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. This makes it easier to securely access your Frigate server remotely without directly exposing it to the internet.
Cloudflare Tunnel support is currently in beta, and we would love to hear about your experience.
Faster Server Switching with Kapal+
Managing multiple Frigate servers is now much faster. Kapal+ users can quickly switch between saved servers without returning to setup or repeatedly entering connection details.
Thank You to Our Roadmap Community
A huge thank-you to everyone who votes and submits feature requests through the Kapal Roadmap!
Your feedback directly helps shape the future of Kapal, and many improvements in this release were inspired by your ideas. Please keep the requests and votes coming—we’re listening.
Performance and Reliability Improvements
- Improved live-stream connection and fallback behavior
- More reliable H.264 and HEVC video playback
- Improved event clip compatibility and playback recovery
- Faster clip loading with smarter caching
- Improved server connection and authentication handling
- Better camera health monitoring and automatic failover
- Improved background-task reliability
- Numerous interface refinements, stability improvements, and bug fixes throughout the app