Roadmap

v0.4 Planned to be released sometime in 2025

🛠️ Rewritten code base 60%
🛠️ Migration from INI-based configuration to YAML-based system.
📡 MQTT Dynamic Scripting: Lua scripts will be able to subscribe to MQTT topics, react to events, and run in parallel background threads.
🖥️ Lua Integration: Log, BalloonTip, Notify, and PlaySound functions will be exposed to Lua scripts.
🎵 Sound Manager: The app will support playing any sound format (WAV, MP3, OGG) automatically detected from the sounds/ folder.
🔔 Tray Balloon Notifications: Lua scripts and system alerts will trigger tray notifications with custom title, text, icon, and timeout.
🚀 Synthwave Matrix About Window: A new futuristic About window will feature a neon gradient background, animated falling emoji rain, ambient synthwave sound, smooth fade-in/out animations, and clickable links.
🎨 Lua Script Editor: A simple built-in Lua editor will be added.
Allow users to resize individual camera views with the mouse for better layout flexibility.

A custom Notify Window system will be introduced for in-app notifications.
Notifications will feature modern design: rounded corners, gradient backgrounds, smooth animations, and optional tray balloons.
Notifications can be triggered from Lua scripts, allowing camera motion alerts, MQTT events, or custom script messages.
Notifications can be customized with title, text, timeout, and click-to-dismiss functionality.

🔄 MQTT Reconnect Recovery: The app will automatically re-subscribe to static YML topics and dynamic Lua topics after disconnection (e.g., after computer sleep).
🛡️ Safe MQTT Subscriptions: Duplicate topic subscriptions will be prevented using an internal tracking system.
⚡ Faster Lua Engine Binding: Only selected functions will be registered into Lua, improving script safety and clarity.
🖌️ Improved Application Shutdown: Lua threads and MQTT services will shut down cleanly when the application exits.

🛠️ Lua Error Handling: Lua script runtime errors will be properly logged into the application logs.
🛠️ MQTT Client Stability: MQTT connection and disconnection events will be handled more robustly.
🛠️ Sound Playback Handling: Playing missing or unsupported sound files will no longer cause application crashes.

Finish window that will start first if the application have no settings specified (such as no cams..) it will guide people trough the setup process of the application
Properly handle all remaining exceptions and add the missing ones
tcp/udp connection options for cameras

Implement self update system
Display resources utilization per camera window
Make camera name captions completely transparent
Write support for ONVIF and PTZ camera movement
Migrate to more powerfull application configuration system, like yaml or json, current one are kept for simplicity and compatibility but lacks features that we will need in further development.
Make a hybrid WinForms+UWP application, if it's not possible then somehow manage to run UWP on Windows XP.
It would be useful in some cases to be able to rotate the stream, as an example, by 90 degrees.