7.0.0 (2024-06-03)
- New feature: experimental support for using the Protect livestream API directly when livestreaming in the Home app. This will provide an instantaneous livestreaming experience, but it has some caveats that I'm continuing to work through. At some point it may become the default - for now, if you want to enable this feature, you'll need to do so through the feature options webUI under the video options section. Note: this is an experimental feature and I will accept no support requests related to it. You're on your own if you have an issue.
- Breaking change: default doorbell messages are no longer supported as of Protect controller firmware 4.0. That functionality has been removed from HBUP. To accomplish the same thing, just set a message with an indefinite duration either in HBUP, or through the Protect controller webUI (or native Protect app).
- Breaking change: dynamic bitrate support has been removed. This was always an esoteric and often misunderstood feature, and generally didn't do a great job of solving the problem it was meant to solve. In the era of HEVC on Protect, it makes even less sense now given the need to transcode in most circumstances.
- Improvement: if you're using the Protect enhanced encoding (which enables H.265/HEVC as the video codec Protect uses rather than H.264) setting on your cameras, HBUP will detect this and transcode even if you've requested that it not do so. HomeKit does not currently support anything other than H.264.
- Improvement: the HBUP webUI has been further refined. Nobody might notice but me, but it still makes me smile.
- Housekeeping: some significant spring cleaning and standardization.