Q3 2026 Release Notes

July - September 2026

New Features

• You can now sign in to the iOS app with Google, including passkeys.
• You can now run TetherBox as a virtual machine on a spare PC or server. A new guide walks you through installing VirtualBox, importing the TetherBox appliance, switching it to bridged networking so it can see your cameras, and adding a disk for recordings.

Improvements

• The Cameras list now shows the newest cameras first by default, so cameras you have just added are at the top.
• Recording and event pages now use a single layout that adapts to any screen instead of switching between separate mobile and desktop versions. Turn a phone to landscape and the video fits the screen, with the thumbnail strip and extra playback controls (speed, grid, size) tidied away so the picture and its scrub bar are all that remain.
• The recording scrub bar loads a spread of preview thumbnails straight away, so on a slow connection you see progress immediately and can scrub close to the right spot without waiting for the whole timeline to load.
• The live camera wall now re-fits when you rotate a phone, filling the screen rather than leaving the cameras bunched at the top with empty space below.
• On phones in landscape, page content stays clear of the screen notch or cut-out.
• The Site page now has an IMMIX & Sentinel tab where you can view and edit the alarm-receiving-centre settings (send to IMMIX, Sentinel Site ID and device address) and the custom email server settings for that site, editing each field in place. Previously these could only be changed from the separate Site edit form.
• The TetherBox page now has an Events button next to Live, so you can jump straight to all events recorded by that TetherBox.

API Changes

Everything developers need in one place. The full interactive reference lives under Developers.

Bug Fixes

• Cameras no longer briefly drop out after a TetherBox software update. When a unit updates it reloads its settings and re-reports its cameras to the cloud, and a camera whose device was not being actively monitored could be removed from the box by mistake, cutting its live view and recording for a few minutes until the box found the device again. Devices now stay on the box through an update and are removed only when the device is actually deleted.
• Older TetherBoxes no longer show a false "reconnect your storage drive" alert. These units cannot report their drive status, so the health check now skips that warning for them instead of flagging a drive that is working fine.
• Storage drive health now reads certain SSDs correctly. Some drives (LiteOn and Plextor M6S models) were wrongly marked with a red "Critical" wear warning and shown an impossibly small amount of data written, because their maker reports these figures in a non-standard way. Wear is now judged from the drive's own remaining-life percentage, and the misleading lifetime-written figure is no longer shown for these drives.
• Bulk editing cameras now saves device-level settings such as Disable API, Disable Defaults, camera username and password, ports and connection options. Previously these were silently discarded when changed from the bulk edit form, so the cameras kept their old settings.
• Camera bulk edit now shows the device connection settings with correct capitalisation (Force TCP, ONVIF Port, RTSP Port, URL Auth) instead of lower-cased labels.
• The full-screen button in the recording and event player now works on iPhone.
• Switching timeline no longer briefly shows another customer's data or reverts to the previously selected timeline on the next page you open.
• On mobile, changing the timeline on the Events page now closes the menu so you can see the refreshed results.
• Alert messages and status tables no longer sit slightly off-centre or run off the left edge on phones.
• Filtering a table down to fewer rows (for example on the TetherBoxes page) no longer leaves a block of empty space beneath the results.
• Filtering the Cameras list by Online no longer includes cameras whose TetherBox is offline. A camera cannot really be online when its TetherBox is down, so these now correctly show under Offline instead.
• The TetherBox and camera pages now update the online status live again. When a unit comes back online the status turns green on its own, without you having to reload the page.
• Deleting several events at once from the Events page now clears them all from the screen. Previously only the last one disappeared and the rest stayed on screen even though they had been deleted, until you reloaded the page.
• Scanning the network for new devices from the Network Devices page no longer fails with a "you are not authorised to access this page" error. Integrators and admins with network device access can now start a full network scan again, which speeds up commissioning when a TetherBox has not yet picked up the cameras.
• An internal storage drive that has been swapped out now correctly shows as "Unplugged" and no longer offers a Format button. Previously, after a drive was replaced (for example a boot drive upgrade), the old drive lingered in the Storage tab with a Format option, even though it was no longer connected.
• Timelapse works properly on phones again. The time slider no longer shows "Invalid date" or stops responding, dragging it now previews the frame under your finger straight away, and pressing play from the middle keeps loading the following frames. The scrub bar strip at the bottom is no longer too tall, the picture no longer flashes a loading spinner between every frame while playing, and the date and time above the scrub bar keep updating as playback advances.
• Updating your account settings from the pop-up form no longer shows a "this didn't load" error. The form now saves and closes cleanly.
• In timelapse, a missing frame no longer leaves an "Image Missing" message stuck over the picture. Once you drag the slider to a moment that has an image, the picture shows again instead of keeping the old error.
• On the Native Apps help page, the App Store and Google Play badges now open the store listing when clicked, instead of just showing a larger copy of the badge image.

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