Features

• AI Image Analysis
  • Detect issues with camera (device)  feed based on reference image, including Blur, Glare, Too Dark, Scene Changes, Overexposure, and Obstruction.
  • Detect when camera settings change.
  • Scheduled Monitoring of all cameras, Day & Night captures
    • Weekly checks for all non-critical cameras.
    • Daily checks for all critical cameras.
    • Use the same timezone for all recorders, or use the recorder timezone to run on the specified schedule.
    • Include or exclude weekends.
  • Snapshot Retention Settings
    • Retain monitoring snapshots for up to 1 year.
    • Images are retained on-prem.
  • Daily health digest email with configurable time, timezone, and optional snapshot inclusion.
  • Dashboard View
    • Fleet Health - how many passing & failing image health across the fleet, 
    • Triage Queue - list of cameras that have unhealthy images
    • Failure Types listing - Glare, Obstruction, Blur, Dark, Overexposed, Scene Change
    • Top Camera Scenes - Indoor, outdoor, parking lot, garage, and 30+ more
    • When Failures Happen - Daytime % and Nighttime %
    • Next Scheduled Run - Critical Run (Day & Night), Standard Run (Day & Night)
  • Cameras Listing View, including the last 5 days of runs for Daytime and Nighttime captures
    • Filter By Recorders Health Status, Issue Type, Hardware Status, Camera Scenes. 
    • Search by camera name, IP or MAC address
  • Camera Details Panel, including camera information
    • Daytime and Nighttime tabs.
    • Reference Image including date & time it was taken.
    • Captured Snapshot, which is the last image captured.
    • Stream settings information for the Reference and Current snapshot.
    • Status - Healthy or specific issues.
    • Scene Description of the camera view, including scene types (indoor, outdoor, etc).
    • History of all image analysis health runs has the ability to filter by the number of days to show. (Default is 7 days)
  • Boring Users Required
    • Site Viewer role required to access Image Analysis Page.
    • Site Editor role required to make any changes.
  • Note: Sensitive camera protection - cameras tagged as sensitive are excluded from image. analysis checks.
• Audit Log
  • Timeline of who did what in Boring Toolbox, including
    • Login actions
    • Configuration changes - camera settings, status, passwords, integrations, etc.
    • Reports - created and run.
    • Viewing of snapshots & passwords.
    • Event type and Status (Success & Failure) per event.
    • Filtering by Changes only, Success or Failure, and Users.
    • Option to include system events defined as Boring Services.
    • Filter by specific day or week - easily navigate between weeks or choose presets (last 24 hours, last 48 hours, etc).
    • Search by user, event, or details.
    • Details Panel for each log entry, including action type, username, status (success & failure), and properties associated with the event.
    • Export to Excel 
• Contact Support is built in; reach out without leaving the application.
  • Questions
  • Bug reports - option to include logs
  • Feature request
  • Request a quote
• Software Update Notifications will let you know when a new version of the Toolbox is available for download.
• Vivotek and Hikvision camera integration
  • Firmware retrieval
  • Reboot camera
  • Autofocus
  • SD-card information and health
  • Password change

Updates

• Analytics chart details panel for each current and historic chart, with color-coded values, filtered-chart details view, clear-filter action, and export to Excel.
• Rename Hardware and Devices
  • Import the Excel file with updated names.
  • Individual rename from the hardware details panel.
  • Advanced find/replace with Contains, Starts/Ends With, Wild Card, and Simple Pattern matching, with match highlighting. 
  • Row-level and global undo/revert.
  • Inline renaming with Name and Updated Name combined into one column.
• Sensitive tag for Hardware and Recorders (alongside existing critical and maintenance tags). 
• Reports add camera uptime, recorder uptime, and retention percentage.
• Live Monitoring Started Email redesign, including unlicensed count.
• Hardware filter by Camera Scene, Sensitive tag.
• License usage gauge - showing used/available/total licenses on the About page and Managed Sites header.
• Request a quote from the About or Managed site page. 
• License over-allocation warning icon on managed-site rows.
• Allocate-all hardware button appears when the license count differs from the available site hardware count.
• Delayed data feed indicator on the global dashboard and managed sites before a site is marked offline.
  • Site connection intervals are now configurable.
• Updated onboarding flow for new installations.
• Offline threshold up to 24 hours for Cameras and Recorders.
• Optimized data retrieval by up to 80%.
• Cameras Offline & Maintenance are skipped during snapshot retrieval; the Snapshot column shows "Camera Offline" or "Maintenance Mode" in both Excel and web views.
• Various other minor updates and optimizations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed setting maintenance on a recorder with no hardware.
• Fixed hardware search not resetting after clicking through from camera storage in Dashboard.
• Fixed analytics retention showing over 100% due to evidence lock.
• Fixed expanding a recorder without hardware resetting filters.
• Fixed analytics y-axis scrolling issues.
• Fixed Boring Bot timeout issues.
• Fixed CPU & Memory retrieval.
• Various other minor bug fixes.

Features

• Analytics (New Page)
  • Management Server Overview
    • Recorders Uptime (%)
      • Average uptime of all recorders on the server
      • Trend over the past 30 days
    • Camera Uptime (%)
      • Average uptime of all cameras on all the recorders
      • Trend over the past 30 days
    • Live Storage Save Video
      • Space used by live storage across all recorders
      • Trend over the past 7 days
    • Retention Compliance
      • Camera retention compliance across all recorders.
      • Trend over the past 7 days
  • Recorder Storage Chart
    • Live & Archive storage
    • Filter
      • Current (Latest Data)
        • Recorders (multi-select)
        • Storage Location
        • Free Space
      • Historic
        • Recorder (single-select)
        • Storage Location
        • Date Range (1 year max)
  • Retention Analysis Chart
    • Recorder & Camera Retention
    • Filter
      • Current (Latest Data)
        • Recorders or Cameras (multi-select)
        • Expected Retention Days
        • Actual Retention (100%, less than 90%, 80%, 70%)
        • Storage Location
      • Historic
        • Recorder or Camera (single-select)
        • Storage Location
        • Date Range (1 year max)
  • Uptime Chart
    • Recorder & Camera Uptime
    • Filter
      • Current (Latest Data)
        • Recorders or Cameras (multi-select)
        • Uptime (Less than 50%, 50-75%, Greater than 75%)
        • Number of Downtime Events (0 to 10+ events)
      • Historic
        • Recorder or Camera (single-select)
        • Date Range (1 year max)
  • Inventory Chart
    • Hardware Status
      • Enabled, Disabled, Maintenance across all recorders
      • Filter
        • Recorders (multi-select)
        • Status (Enabled, Disabled, Maintenance, Critical)
    • Camera Status
      • Online, Offline, Maintenance across all recorders
      • Filter
        • Cameras (multi-select)
        • Status (Online, Offline, Maintenance, Critical)
    • Hardware Brands
      • Brands and models grouped by recorder across all recorders
      • Filter
        • Hardware Status (All, Enabled Only, Disabled Only)
        • Hardware (multi-select)
        • Brands (all available on the system)
        • Firmware Version
  • Chart Features
    • Snapshot of the current chart, copied to clipboard
    • Tooltips
    • Toggleable x-axis labels
    • Horizontal x-axis scrolling
    • Dark mode theme support
    • Responsive charts
  • Multi-site support
    • Toggle between Child sites analytics information from the Parent site.
    • Note: Child sites must be on the same Boring Toolbox version as the Parent site.

Boring Users Site Viewer role required to access Analytics page

Updates

• Added Daily recurrence for Scheduled Maintenance.
• Added maintenance count in the Recorder details panel.
• Updated Dashboard to support smaller screens (responsive UI).
• Updated implementation of camera snapshot retrieval.
• Optimized data retrieval for dashboard and reports.
• Various other minor updates and optimizations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed dark mode for Boring Users, BAM renewal dialogs.
• Fixed issues saving managed site name.
• Fixed recorder storage showing negative value for free space percentage.
• Fixed “Send to Bot” panel overlapping in Reports editor.
• Various other minor bug fixes.

Service version : 2.18.1025
Client version : 2.18.1025

Features:

Device Groups

• Create new device groups
• Rename device groups
• Delete device groups in bulk
• Add members to device groups in bulk and with search
• Remove members from device groups in bulk
• Create auto device groups based on templates
• Real time search

Hardware

• Enable and disable hardware in bulk
• Enable and disable device in bulk
• Rename hardware in bulk
• Rename devices in bulk
• Delete hardware in bulk
• Statistics on number of hardware and devices selected
• Real time search

Hardware > Settings

• Allows for the update of camera device settings in bulk regardless of the camera hardware or driver used
• Currently supports Codec, Frame Rate, Resolution and streaming mode

Password Manager

• Toggle visibility of hardware passwords
• Bulk change passwords in Milestone XProtect based on a single password or a randomly generated password
• Bulk sync camera passwords in Milestone XProtect and Axis physical devices

Camera Report

• Filter by recording server
• Filter by hardware status
• Filter by device status
• Filter by date modified
• Include usernames and passwords for each hardware
• Include point in time snapshots of the cameras view into the Excel spreadsheet
• Include stream information and filter by specific stream details