Bluecherry - Linux based surveillance software

Screencast of the user interface

abelykh — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:47:50 +0000

We often get requests for a trial (demo) of the software. Since the software is tied directly to the equipment a trial isn’t really a great option. So we’ve recorded a quick walk through of the software interface for you to see the features of the software.

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DKMS support (The one click upgrade!)

curtishall — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:54:46 +0000

Today we closed a long standing feature request (#35). It was originally talked about in August, 2009 as a way to effectively distribute upgrades without having to install new kernel drivers each time Ubuntu does an ABI bump (kernel revision). Prior to having DKMS you would have to install the Ubuntu updates, find out what kernel version was installed during the upgrade (if any) and install our module. Occasionally Ubuntu would do an ABI bump over the weekend and we wouldn’t have a module built until Monday, leaving customers with a system that wasn’t working properly.

By having a DKMS supported driver it means that our software is really a ‘One click upgrade’. This also allows us to support different Ubuntu releases (Hardy, Karmic, Lucid) later down the road.
Thanks to Ben Collins for his hard work on the driver over the past month and getting the DKMS package finished.

Instructions for installing the DKMS package can be found here: http://forums.bluech…ry-dkms-module/

Ben Collins joins Bluecherry

.96 released

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:21:39 +0000

We released version .96 on 12/10/2009. In addition to the changes below several performance enhancements have been made to make the software even more stable.

Resolved bugs:

Bug #18: Screenshot button produces a broken image
Bug #60: The server will not accept remote connections upon restarting after a crash
Bug #128: Audio works in live viewing but not during search / playback
Bug #138: Streaming server using excessive amounts of CPU
Bug #140: Using the pattern tracking section of the PTZ area causes the server to crash
Bug #141: Server will not accept connections after a crash
Bug #142: All available storage paths are not shown correctly in space manager
Bug #150: Server crashing when adjusting contrast
Bug #174: No kernel driver for 2.6.28-17

Features added:

Feature #139: Change default mp4 -> avi conversion path
Feature #158: Allow manual changing of custom device path for serial ports (Controlling PTZ cameras)
Feature #178: Give permission for ‘dvr’ to ‘cdrom’ group
Feature #175: Change default brightness

Ben Collins joins Bluecherry

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:47:00 +0000

We are excited to announce Ben Collins has joined our development team. Ben previously worked for Canonical as the Ubuntu kernel maintainer and before that he was the Debian Project Leader between 2001-2002.

Ben’s responsibilities will be doing some maintenance on the driver, adding support for DKMS (This should eliminate any upgrade problems when new kernels are released) and package management for version 1. This will be a continuation of the work that Ben (Winslow) has done in the past couple months.

His long term role will be a complete rewrite of the back end for the server software specifically focusing on version 2. You may not see him on the forums very much but rest assured he will be working diligently on improvements and getting those feature requests added into version 2.

DKMS support (The one click upgrade!)

Remote client 1.2.0 released

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:20:51 +0000

1.2.0 of the (Windows) remote client was released today. Below is a list of features. It is recommended that you completely uninstall the existing version and install this new version. This release has numerous code improvements, optimizations and cleanup. We also added a crash reporting utility which will allow you to send a crash report to our servers if the client misbehaves.

1.2.0 can be downloaded from: http://improve.bluec…s/windowsclient

Note: Uninstalling will remove the DVR(s) connections you have saved. Be sure to have the login, password and IP addresses of any server(s) you are using.

Effective with this release configuration files will no longer be overwritten during upgrades unless the database schema changes.

Bugs:

Bug #26: Windows installer should not overwrite configuration files during reinstall or upgrade
Bug #45: Windows Remote Client playback crashes if multiple events are played at once
Bug #46: Quotes (single and double) are not escaped properly
Bug #64: Opening another event occasionally causes event viewer to crash
Bug #78: Sometimes event player doesn’t actually play the video
Bug #82: DVRSearch sometimes crashes on startup
Bug #94: Setup version numbers to start at 1.2.0

Features added:

Feature #47: Change default recording path
Feature #48: Change default password to match server installation
Feature #62: Add error logging with the option to send crash reports to support
Feature #63: Do not overwrite configuration file on upgrade
Feature #65: Code cleanup
Feature #67: Code cleanup
Feature #74: General client improvements
Feature #83: Add more error handling to EventPlayer
Feature #96: Remove ‘DDNS’ option in remote client

.95 released

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:20:30 +0000

Below is a list of resolved bugs and added features for .95:

Bug #43: Fixes for remote streaming. (Windows Remote Client)
Bug #44: Set supplemental groups when dropping privileges to fix PTZ support (Fixes PTZ problems)
Feature #36: Make init scripts more verbose and improve error handling.

.94 released

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:18:37 +0000

Below is a list of changes for .94:

Bug #12: bluecherrydvr-server does not start on startup
Bug #31: Remote client ‘On Demand’ backup connects and then closes
Bug #42: No kernel module package for 2.6.28-15

Linux surveillance software

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:04:08 +0000

Bluecherry’s Linux based surveillance application is a complete ready to go solution. Pick from either a 4, 8 or 16 port hardware compression card and our installation cd will automatically install Ubuntu (Jaunty) and configure the software for you based on the card that is auto-detected during startup. No more pulling your hair out or command line changes – We do it all automatically!

The advanced GUI interface is the first surveillance application based on Linux that allows advanced functionality typically only found in Windows software applications. These advanced features such as PTZ auto tracking, Object (loss) detection and an advanced Windows Remote Client.

Below is a list of just a few of the features the software supports:

- Deinterlacing support
- Intelligent setup automatically configures the software on installation
- Scheduled based recording (Choose between recording types based on hour / day, motion detection, alarm / sensor input)
- Advanced user roles – Limit access to users based on extensive rules (Per camera, date, Remote access etc)
- Pan / Tilt / Zoom control (Pelco D / Pelco P)
- EMAP support
- Object detection
- Remote (live) viewing from any browser that supports MJPEG streaming including the iPhone
- Backup directly to USB or CDROM
- Windows remote client supports streaming live events and search / backup of previous events

If you have any questions please call us at 877-418-3391 or sales@bluecherrydvr.com

These cards are available for purchase now on our website: http://store.bluecherry.net/category_s/115.htm

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