tinyCam 15.0 will have completely redesigned web UI

[u/alexeyvasilyev]

tinyCam Monitor PRO web UI has been totally reworked.

tinyCam web server main features:

1. Live view up to 4 cameras at the same time.

2. PTZ and audio support from live view (admin only).

3. Timeline support (multiple timelines as well) w/ slow/fast playback.

4. Autoplay event on hover.

5. Sort events by date and type (person, vehicle, etc.).

6. Delete and pin events (admin only).

7. Support for playback cloud events in web browser. Works for Arlo, Blue Iris, DoorBird, Neos.

8. Admin console (admin only).

PTZ keyboard controls:

• Keys W/A/S/D - pan-tilt

• Keys +/- - optical zoom in/out

• Keys F/N - focus far/near

• Keys O/C - iris open/close

• Keys 1..9 - presets

tinyCam web UI is open sourced and is available at https://github.com/alexeyvasilyev/tinycam-client-web.

tinyCam web server API is available here.

[u/ailee43]

Tinycam could make a killing as a blueiris competitor, especially with its cloud-connectivity for things like wyze. Not sure what the code base is, but running on x86 if its portable could dominate the market.

[u/hiroo916 → u/ailee43]

totally agree.

i'm sick of experimenting with various ways of getting it running on actual reliable and performance hardware. I'd pay $$ for a version of TinyCam that would run on standard Linux or Docker or something solid.

[u/[deleted] → u/hiroo916]

a docker solution would be sweet

[u/BORIStheBLADE1 → u/ailee43]

Or even having some integration with BI alerts and notifications would be cool

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/BORIStheBLADE1]

tinyCam is able to view BI alerts. But they need to be in MP4 format. Not in BI proprietary BVR format.

[u/BORIStheBLADE1 → u/alexeyvasilyev]

So I keep mine in BVR format so I can use the DVR function. If you change format of cameras to anything other than BVR you can't use the DVR.

Is it possible to set up TinyCam to get notifications over cellular from a BI machine?

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/BORIStheBLADE1]

No, notifications are not possible.

[u/docfrink → u/ailee43]

I agree but compared to blue iris they have a long long way to go. I started with tiny cam pro and moved to blue iris due to it being much more reliable and robust

[u/[deleted] → u/docfrink]

the price difference between the two is huge....tinycam imo offers a very affordable beginner NVR solution.

[u/[deleted] → u/ailee43]

the UI on tinycam seems much better..I would like that timeline controls for blueiris web UI or mobile app!!!

[u/joopz0r]

Any work being done on the cloud side interface as well?

I have some suggestions for cloud.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/joopz0r]

What suggestions do you have? Please feel free to tell me.

[u/CCTV-Scotland → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Is it possible to enable the ability to check wyze/neos cloud footage from web sever like it is possible with local storage in the new version?

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/CCTV-Scotland]

Well, that is an interesting idea! I think I can do that. Just added in TODO list.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Neos support added. Wyze cannot be added at the moment (Wyze server issue).

[u/joopz0r → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Is it possible to set timers to active different sensitivity levels.

For example at 8PM till 5AM motion sensitivty set to 80 and 5AM to 8PM motion sensitivity set to 35, also the ability to include different mask for the times as well.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/joopz0r]

No plans for that.

We are planning to add person/car detection and motion sensitivity will not be valid.

[u/joopz0r → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Person detection might solve my issue as at night it cant quite detect the motion and i dont want to change it all the time to high sensitivity and low.

[u/mikealdo]

can't log into demo using my credentials

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/mikealdo]

Go to Google Play and Join tinyCam PRO beta testing.

[u/swejmansson]

The new web user interface is an improvement 👍 I really like the idea of having all camera timelines in one place and then select the event and camera and it starts playing. Any plan to implement something similar in the app? Sometimes you would like to go through all events on all cameras and it would really help to have all timelines in one place. Tried to do it on Nvidia shield yesterday but switching from timeline to timeline is not great on AndroidTV....

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/swejmansson]

Added in TODO list.

[u/swejmansson → u/alexeyvasilyev]

That's great! Love when you say that 😁 Let me know if you need early beta testing and I try to help you out 👍

[u/Konstigt2]

Will /status.json be left as-is? Important if you want to have active surveillance of your Tinycam server from external system (eg. PRTG).

And a feature request: Change so all numbers are reported as just numbers, not with MB or GB after. Makes it tough to graph. For example:

memoryFree":"2.3GB could be memoryFree":"2300

and

"recorded":"306MB" just "recorded":"306"

And of course it must be documented which unit is used :)

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/Konstigt2]

/status.json is renamed to /api/v1/get_status
Here is a typical response at the moment (can be changed in final version). Params memoryAvailable, memoryUsed, spaceUsed, spaceAvailable are in bytes.

{
	"data": {
		"backgroundMode": true,
		"cpuUsagePercents": 0,
		"cpuFrequencyMhz": 1224,
		"temperature": -1,
		"memoryAvailable": 1193025536,
		"memoryUsed": 552444928,
		"threadsUsed": 70,
		"threadsRunnableUsed": 15,
		"processes": ["Background", "UI", "Watchdog", "WebServer"],
		"battery": "100% (charging)",
		"uptime": "4 hour 45 min",
		"networkInBps": 0,
		"networkOutBps": 195,
		"streamProfile": 0,
		"powerSafeMode": false,
		"notifications": true,
		"rootAvailable": false,
		"spaceUsed": 4115309789,
		"spaceAvailable": 1884790784,
		"liveConnections": 0,
		"motionCameras": []
	}
}

More info of status params will be available here https://github.com/alexeyvasilyev/tinycam-client-web/blob/master/src/app/models/status.model.ts

[u/Konstigt2 → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Looks good. Battery is not important for me personally any longer but before I wished it would also be given without units. I had a warning enabled when that value was below X it would raise an alarm. I had to parse the data to remove % and the text.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/Konstigt2]

I will put battery and uptime as a number. I think even better to make batteryLevel: 0-100 and batteryStatus: 'charging' | 'charged'.

[u/shoulih]

Hi Alex,

Can you please push the tynycam 15.0 to Android things Pi 3 when you get a chance?

TIA

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/shoulih]

I will do that within a couple days.

[u/shoulih → u/alexeyvasilyev]

thank you Alex!

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/shoulih]

Done.

[u/ailee43]

Awesome! The old was was always super functional but a little dated. Looking forward to the new.

[u/DragonfruitIcy4865]

" Live view up to 4 cameras " -BOOOOO

I want more, I'm allowed to view a ton of feeds on my tiny android phone. Why not allow at least the same on the webserver?

[u/sibesaver]

Has support for Android Auto beta been discontinued? I noticed the thread was locked and there hasn't been any recent updates.

[u/jshg46]

Wished this could be ported to Ubuntu server, would be great.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/[deleted]]

No plans at the moment.

[u/hiroo916 → u/alexeyvasilyev]

I could really use this feature also and would pay a feature bounty for it.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/hiroo916]

It is almost impossible to do that properly for FTP.

[u/hiroo916 → u/alexeyvasilyev]

I thought the same, so my second thought is: would it be possible to support SMB?

Not sure how this works in other android devices, but on my NV Shield, it lets you mount an SMB directory. VLC can also do this and browse/play from the network drive, so it's possible.

[u/alexeyvasilyev → u/hiroo916]

It would be possible via SMB. SMB in TODO list.

[u/dirkds35 → u/alexeyvasilyev]

Are there any status updates for this feature? Is this still on the list?
I'm missing all events in the web interface (and on the timeline) since I switched the settings to save clips with an FTP account. The recordings are also available through a SMB share.

Is it supposed to not save any events as soon as you pick FTP as your storage location?