Protect Panes 1.4.0

UniFi Protect live view for Windows, one window per camera, across several consoles.

New in 1.4.0

• Grid windows. In the layout editor (Layouts → New layout…), set Open as → One grid window to put all the cameras in the tiles of one window, like a Protect liveview. Move it, resize it, maximize it or put it in full screen.
  • Each tile keeps everything a camera window has: 360° views you can aim, the clock, the right-click menu.
  • Each tile picks its stream quality from its size.
  • Right-click a tile to change its camera's settings in this grid, switch the grid's Layout, Edit grid… or Close grid. Right-click an empty tile to Put a camera here.
  • Grid windows reopen where they were and hide with Hide cameras.
• Hide from list. Hide on a camera's row tucks a camera nobody uses (an offline one, say) into Hidden from list at the bottom of its console. Show all and the layout editor skip it. Show in list brings it back.
• Camera previews. Each camera in the list shows a still from the camera, refreshed about once a minute while the list is open. Hover one for a bigger view, also in the layout editor. Offline cameras say so. Turn previews off in Settings → Show camera previews.
• Adjust picture. Right-click a camera → Adjust picture… for Brightness and Contrast sliders. Apply to all cameras can copy them too.
• Smaller updates. From now on, a release that keeps the same Electron version is a ~1.5 MB download instead of 120-160 MB, still signed and checked before it's installed. Installed copies' Settings → Apps entry keeps showing the last full installer's version until the next full update.

Fixes

• Saved console passwords now use Electron's current encryption API. The old one is deprecated and would have stopped reading them on a later Electron upgrade. Existing passwords keep working, and going back to an older version still reads them.

Install or upgrade

• From 1.3.0 (installed) or 1.3.1: Settings → Updates → Check for updates, then Install. This one still downloads the full installer or zip, since 1.3.x doesn't know about small updates. From 1.4.0 on they're small.
• From 1.2.0 or 1.3.0 portable: those can't update themselves. Quit the app (tray → Quit) and run ProtectPanes-Setup.exe, or replace the folder with the zip. Your settings carry over.
• New install: run ProtectPanes-Setup.exe. It isn't code-signed, so Windows shows Windows protected your PC: click More info → Run anyway.

Files

• ProtectPanes-Setup.exe: the installer.
• ProtectPanes-win32-x64.zip: the portable app.
• ProtectPanes-app.asar.gz: the small update, for copies already on this Electron version.
• latest.json: the signed manifest the in-app updater reads. Its SHA-256 lines let you check the files by hand.