Notifications are finally here!
You asked for them more than anything else, and I'm so excited to finally ship them. I wanted alerts you'd actually leave on, so they're smart about when to make noise:
• Quiet at home, loud when you're out. At home, alerts land silently in Notification Center. Head out and they make sound again. You don't have to switch anything.
• No location tracking. Kapal never asks for your location. It just checks whether your iPhone can reach your Frigate on your home Wi-Fi.
• Always alert. Pick the cameras that should always ring, like the doorbell, even when you're home.
• Quiet hours. Silent overnight or on any schedule you like. Alerts still show up, they just won't wake you.
• One notification per burst. A busy camera updates one notification with a count instead of buzzing over and over. Tap it to see every clip.
• Private by design. Alert details are encrypted for your iPhone. The alert service never gets your Frigate password, snapshots or video.
Setup takes about a minute in System > Notifications. Notifications are part of Kapal+, a one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads.
ALSO NEW IN 2.4
• A redesigned Activity tab. Review is grouped by day with Mark Reviewed for each day. Switch to Explore or People & Pets from the title.
• People & Pets. Name the faces Frigate saves with one tap, add photos from your phone, and see when each person was last seen.
• New widgets (Kapal+). Camera snapshots, latest activity, unreviewed alerts and a 24-hour summary, including Lock Screen widgets.
• Server Status. Detector speed, CPU, free space and camera health on one page, opened from the top of the System tab.
• A cleaner Cameras screen. Snapshots fill each tile, and each camera shows its last event and how long ago it happened.
FIXES AND POLISH
• Live view no longer freezes when you close or switch cameras.
• Timeline starts long events much faster, and clips no longer go black when you rotate.
• Motion clips open in a full-screen player on iPhone.
• MJPEG works behind a self-signed certificate.
• Alerts are red and detections orange everywhere, just like in Frigate.
• Plainer error messages, better Dark Mode, VoiceOver labels on camera tiles, and layouts that hold up at large text sizes.
A lot of this release came straight from your suggestions and bug reports. Thank you!