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MiBeeNvr v0.6.0's Test Machines: Three Camera Projects Updated in Sync

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The concurrently released MiBeeNvr v0.6.0 brought major features like timelapse, video transcoding, and ONVIF enhancements. Unit tests alone are far from enough — the full workflow must be tested against real camera hardware. To provide reliable test machines for this release, three camera projects were updated on the same day, June 5th — both to supply testing environments for the NVR and to solve some typical embedded development engineering problems along the way.

MiBeeNvr v0.5.0: Full ONVIF Protocol Support + Hardware Transcoding + rpi-cam Co-development

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Less than a week after v0.4.0, another 31 commits were pushed. v0.5.0 is a feature-dense release: full ONVIF protocol support (covering all five major services: Device/Media/PTZ/Imaging/Event), hardware transcoding (H.265 → H.264), and recorder reconnection optimizations. 127 files changed, +24,509 / -730 lines. See the full changelog at GitHub Release Notes.

If you haven’t seen the previous versions, check out MiBeeNvr Introduction and v0.4.0 Technical Post.

Full ONVIF Protocol Support

v0.4.0 already had ONVIF device discovery and stream URL retrieval, but that was just the tip of the ONVIF iceberg. v0.5.0 completes the core services of ONVIF Profile S:

MiBeeNvr v0.4.0: Audio Recording Finally Arrives, Auto-Recovery When Cameras Go Down

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Previously, MiBeeNvr’s MP4 files only had a video track — playback was silent. v0.4.0 fills this gap with audio recording. It also adds more practical camera health monitoring and auto-recovery.

Recordings Now Have Sound

Each camera can independently enable audio recording:

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cameras:
 - id: "front-door"
 name: "Front Door Camera"
 protocol: "rtsp"
 encoding: "h264"
 audio_enabled: true

Supported audio formats:

MiBeeNvr v0.4.0: Audio Recording Pipeline and Multi-Layer Health Monitoring Architecture

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After v0.3.1 shipped, I put in another 196 commits. v0.4.0 is a feature-dense release: audio recording pipeline, multi-layer health monitoring engine, HLS/LL-HLS playback stability optimization, and a major UI redesign. For the full changelog, see GitHub Release Notes.

The previous post covered v0.3.x’s multi-protocol streaming and Xiaomi camera support (v0.3.0 Tech Post). If you haven’t read the first post, start with MiBeeNvr Introduction.

Audio Recording: From Silent to Sound

In the v0.3.x era, recorded MP4 files only had a video track. v0.4.0 introduces a complete audio capture and muxing pipeline, supporting AAC audio from RTSP cameras and G.711 audio from ONVIF/Xiaomi cameras.