Protect Panes 1.4.4

UniFi Protect live view for Windows, one window per camera, across several consoles. Project page: https://jamesccupps.github.io/UnifiCameraViewer/

Fixes from a full review of the app, each checked by a test that failed before it.

Security

• Importing settings no longer changes where updates come from. The update location now stays as each PC has it, like Start with Windows. A settings file could otherwise point update checks at a network share. The app would open that share at every start, and Windows sends a share the user's network credentials. The signature check stopped fake updates, but not that.
• Imported settings are checked: only settings this version knows, each with the right kind of value. Anything else takes its default.
• Releases are now signed in a separate step that never runs the build's third-party tools, so none of them can read the signing key.

Fixes

• A minimized or hidden window of a UniFi Access door reader now stays paused. Video it had already queued used to reach the window, and the camera list showed it as live.
• Settings keep saving if config.json is deleted while the app runs (by a sync tool or antivirus, say). Before, every save failed until a restart.
• Import cleans up console addresses written as web addresses (https://10.0.0.5/ becomes 10.0.0.5), the way Add console does. A file that has the same console twice brings it in once.
• Import reads a settings file saved with a byte-order mark, as Windows PowerShell 5.1 saves UTF-8.
• A 360° view whose saved settings miss some values (a hand-edited file) gets them filled in, instead of staying blank.
• A camera whose stream keeps ending waits a few seconds before reconnecting, and says so, instead of reconnecting over and over.
• The camera list says in grid only for the camera a cycling tile is showing, not for the other cameras in its cycle.

Install or upgrade

• From 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 or 1.4.3: Settings → Updates → Check for updates, then Install. It's the small update.
• From 1.3.x: the same, but it downloads the full installer or zip.
• From 1.2.0 or 1.3.0 portable: 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 (1.4.0 and later).
• latest.json: the signed manifest the in-app updater reads. Its SHA-256 lines let you check the files by hand.