New in 2.4.1: Notifications can now include the image from the event that triggered the alert. Touch and hold a notification to see it larger. Open Kapal once after updating to refresh saved server access.
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!