2025 Highlights

Major Platform Modernisation ⭐

The defining theme of 2025 was a complete technical modernisation of the platform:

• Template Migration: Slim → ERB (500+ files)
• JavaScript Migration: CoffeeScript → ES2024 (30+ new Stimulus controllers)
• Asset Pipeline: Webpacker → esbuild + Propshaft
• Stylesheet Migration: Sass → SCSS

Live View Player Rewrite ⭐

Complete video/image streaming architecture overhaul:

• Four HLS latency profiles (Ultra-Low to Slow Internet)
• Automatic fallback to image mode on poor connections
• Touch support for pan/zoom on mobile
• Auto-retry system with exponential backoff
• iOS/Safari reliability improvements
• Seamless local streaming with automatic upgrade when on same network

Mobile & Tablet Experience ⭐

Major UI overhaul for mobile and tablet devices:

• Dedicated mobile stylesheets
• Touch-friendly recordings playback
• Orientation-aware layout switching
• Responsive controls throughout

Export System

New bulk download and export capabilities:

• Bulk event downloads with email delivery
• Camera snapshots bulk download
• Export management with progress tracking
• Expiration and cleanup

TetherBox Health Monitoring ⭐

Comprehensive diagnostics with dramatically improved performance:

• Health page overhaul: Server-side pagination (loads in seconds, not minutes)
• S.M.A.R.T drive health integration with intelligent error filtering
• Slow drive overload detection (>50% utilisation on ≤5400 RPM drives)
• CPU architecture visibility
• Network interface diagnostics overhaul: Smart bad cable detection, half-duplex warnings, carrier error tracking with significant reduction in false positive warnings
• Filesystem corruption detection
• Ejected drives detection
• Automatic drive power management: Disables aggressive power saving (APM, ALPM, APST) for 24/7 workloads

TetherBox Reliability ⭐

Critical reliability improvements for unattended operation:

• File descriptor leak resolution: Eliminated EMFILE errors enabling indefinite uptime—one of most significant stability improvements
• Authentication lockout prevention: 12-minute cooldown prevents camera lockouts from failed auth attempts
• ANPR detection recovery: Automatic re-initialisation when cameras reconnect after network interruptions
• VMD event filtering: Intelligent noisy camera filtering achieving 60-80% false alert reduction
• ONVIF PTZ for DVR channels: Full PTZ support for multi-camera recording devices

Page Performance ⭐

~2x faster page loads across key pages:

• Events, TetherBoxes, Cameras and other key pages load around twice as fast
• Drastically reduced database queries
• Lazy-loaded filters with temporary placeholders
• Page sections load independently for faster time-to-interactive

Brand Management

White-label branding support for partners:

• Visual identity (colours, logos)
• Custom support URLs
• Per-timeline brand assignment
• Brand-consistent emails

Security Enhancements

• TOTP two-factor authentication (replacing Authy)
• IP address restrictions per user

Other Notable Features

• Text-based events for system notifications without video
• Inline editing system across all entities
• Real-time updates via ActionCable with smooth row deletion
• Release notes browser in Help section
• Wireless device management
• Matrix RS232 controller support
• Partner activity tracking
• Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 13) support
• Expanded Hikvision ANPR camera model support
• Selective ONVIF analytics event filtering
• Enhanced Modbus environmental sensor support

Statistics

Platform

Year-end codebase: 208,542 lines (Ruby: 86,416, Views: 50,434, JS: 31,197)

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