• Suriya released this 2026-09-30 11:20:20 +00:00 | 8 commits to main since this release

    Watch any camera live, from anywhere

    Builds on v0.5.1, which made the app usable on a computer that is not watching
    any cameras itself. That showed each camera's most recent picture. This shows
    you the camera now, from any network, on Mac and Windows.

    Open Cameras, press Watch live on a tile. The shop computer starts
    sending video and stops the moment you stop watching — nothing is uploaded
    while nobody is looking, which is why one camera plays at a time rather than a
    whole grid going live because you opened the page.

    There is no port to open and no VPN to set up. The shop computer pushes the
    picture out to head office; nothing ever connects in to the shop.

    A camera could say "Connected" long after it had stopped

    Found while testing the above, on the real system: two cameras showing
    Connected in green, thirty-four minutes after their shop computer had
    stopped being able to see either of them.

    The shop computer correctly reports nothing when it cannot reach its own
    recognition engine — but the last thing it had said stayed on screen looking
    current. So a computer that was switched off, or had Behavision closed, left
    green lights behind it.

    A camera now says one of four things, and they need different responses:

    Connected working
    Not connecting the shop computer can see the camera and cannot open it — check the address, password and cabling
    Waiting for the shop computer just added, the shop computer has not picked it up yet
    Not reporting the shop computer has stopped — check it is on and Behavision is running

    The last one is new, and it is the one that was quietly reading as
    Connected. "Not connecting" would have been the wrong word: it sends
    somebody to check cabling on a camera that was working fine the last time
    anyone could ask.

    Downloads

    • Behavision-v0.5.2-demo-windows-x64.zip — Windows 10/11, 64-bit
    • Behavision-v0.5.2-demo-macos-arm64.zip — Apple Silicon

    Unzip, run behavision-setup, then open Behavision. INSTALL.txt has the
    steps. On a computer that will not watch cameras you can skip setup and just
    sign in.

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