v5.0.0#

v5.0.0 is the first OpenMV Viewer release. OpenMV Viewer is a separate, read-only build of OpenMV IDE for showing off a finished product built on an OpenMV Cam: it streams the camera’s live output and runs a script, but the development tools are removed, so a customer or an end user can see what a product does without the full development environment. It installs and runs independently of OpenMV IDE.

Highlights#

  • A read-only telemetry viewer — the frame buffer, serial terminal, and histogram work exactly as they do in OpenMV IDE, so you can watch what the camera captures and what its script prints live.

  • Runs a product’s script — Run and Stop work and run a script from disk, and the running script can be stopped when the viewer connects or disconnects, so a device is always in a known state.

  • Authoring tools removed — the editor’s development features, the machine vision authoring tools, the AI and model tools, and the developer settings are all stripped out, leaving a focused viewing application.

  • Installs on its own — the viewer is branded and installed as OpenMV Viewer, with its own application name, settings, and identity, so it coexists with a full OpenMV IDE installation.

What’s included#

  • Live camera output — the frame buffer viewer, the serial terminal, and the histogram, with the same controls as OpenMV IDE.

  • Run / Stop and stop-on-connect — run the product’s script from disk, and halt it when the viewer attaches or detaches.

  • File and Edit menus and Preferences — kept so the viewer stays usable (open a file, adjust the interface), while the developer-only categories are hidden.

  • Firmware update and recovery — the firmware manager, bootloader recovery, and loading a ROM file system onto the camera are kept, so the viewer can still recover or re-provision a device in the field.

  • Fiducial generators — the AprilTag, DataMatrix, QR, and barcode generators are kept, since they are useful outside development too.

What’s removed#

  • The script-authoring editor features, the machine vision tuning tools (threshold editor, keypoints editor, and the like), the AI and model-training tools, the model zoo and dataset editor, and the developer settings categories. Firmware-upgrade and onboarding prompts are suppressed so a demo never interrupts to change the device.

Platform and tool support#

  • Qt Creator base: 14.0.2 (shared with OpenMV IDE).

  • Availability: Windows, macOS, and Linux, installed separately from OpenMV IDE.

Breaking changes#

None — this is the first release.