Secure cameras

May 1, 2025
Secure Cameras 1.2.32.976150

• We're rolling out improvements to enhance battery performance and reliability for battery-powered cameras:
• Reduced Unintended Wake-Ups: Optimized system behavior to minimize unnecessary wake-ups, extending overall battery life.
• Event Reporting Fix: Resolved specific cases where some battery cameras stopped reporting events.
• Wi-Fi Sleep Improvements: Improved battery efficiency by ensuring the Wi-Fi chip correctly enters sleep mode after a channel change.

 

March 25, 2025 
Secure cameras 1.2.32.976110

• Improved the accuracy of WiFi router names displayed in the app for better identification.
• Fixed issues causing short clips to be uploaded and improved overall upload success rates.
• Adjusted PIR cooldown settings to be more user-friendly and intuitive.
• Reduced battery consumption by optimizing motion snooze settings, leading to better efficiency in busy locations.
• Reduced instances of unreachable battery cameras and fixed cases where battery cameras failed to enter sleep mode properly.
• Improved automatic day/night switching for battery cameras for more accurate lighting adjustments.
• Enhanced battery performance by minimizing unnecessary wake ups, extending battery life.

 

November 18, 2024 
Secure cameras 1.2.26 (877000)

• Improved clip upload success rate.
• Improved lighting-related false positives during motion detection.
• Improved Bluetooth connection.
• Improved the Setup button's functionality.
• Reduced the number of times a battery camera reboots when disconnected from internet.
• Reduced the number of times a battery camera reboots when speaker is active.

September 30, 2024 
Secure cameras 1.2.24 (842050)

• Fixed an issue with uploading video clips after privacy mode was reenabled after a reboot.
• Battery camera now updates its battery status more consistently after reconnecting to Wi-Fi.
• Adjusted the day/night threshold.
• Made enabling Bluetooth faster.
• Adjusted the location of the Hue logo on video clips.
• Strengthened encryption when communicating the camera’s public IP address.  

Fixed an issue where overlays weren’t showing on live view.
August 20, 2024 
Secure cameras 1.2.21 (801010)

• Overlays will now appear on every video clip.
• Updated package detection.
• Fixed live view timeouts and connection issues.
• Added Hue logo watermark to live view.
• Fixed issues with live view showing as mostly black or mostly white.
• Improved firmware update stability.
• Increased firmware update speed.
• Improved firmware update failure reporting.
• Enabled adding a camera to a different Home without removing it from its existing Home using the ownership card.
• Fixed events triggered by activity outside of Activity zones.
• Fixed issues with false alarms or missed detections on battery cameras after they’d been in sleep mode for a long period of time. 
• Improved video clip response time on battery cameras to ensure camera captures shorter events.
• Improved Bluetooth connection speed.
• Made sure battery camera won’t go into sleep mode without turning off Bluetooth
• Reduce the false events triggered by rain and trees.
• Improvements in people detection.

May 30, 2024 
Secure cameras 1.2.12 (6583020)

• Improved the battery camera’s functionality while it’s in sleep mode.
• Improved the push-to-talk feature during live view.
• The app now updates the SSID and IP address any time the Wi-Fi SSID has changed.
• Fixed an issue with motion detection/light behaviors for wired cameras. 
• Fixed an issue where the camera factory reset if a user removed it from the Bridge.
• Fixed connection issues during Live view.
• Improved network connectivity.

February 28, 2024 
Secure cameras 1.2.10 (650010)

• Fixed an issue where motion events were incorrectly categorized as vehicle events
• Made Night vision transitions smoother
• Improved Wi-Fi setup during onboarding
• Made live view startup times shorter and improved clip capturing
• Streamlined camera firmware updating process
• Improved battery camera’s sleep mode
• Changed the default sensitivity for object detection

December 12, 2023 
Secure cameras 1.2.6 (581000)

• Improved battery life for cameras that use certain Wi-Fi routers/settings
• Improved live view 
• Improved performance and reliability of the system
• Fixed an issue with onboarding for people outside of US
• Fixed an issue where live view showed a purple screen
• Fixed delayed notifications

November 28, 2023
Secure cameras 1.23–1.2.5

• Introduced a setting to adjust video clip length 
• Improved livestream startup time and video quality
• Improved battery life by preventing unnecessary motion triggers 
• Fixed an issue where video clips weren’t attached to the event in the timeline
• Fixed an issue where video clips weren’t recorded if the microphone was disabled
• Fixed an issue where motion just outside an Activity zone would trigger an event
• Fixed a compatibility issue with a small number of Wi-Fi access points

September 12, 2023 
Secure cameras 1.2.3 (559000)

• Initial launch. Check back here for future release notes!