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You can now see tagging stats - what has been tagged, who did it and where.

The new version of Sidekick for Android prompts you to update the location of the camera if it has changed and provides quick links to recently uploaded videos.

We have introduced a new way to connect to your thermal camera. The camera now sets up a Wi-Fi hotspot called bushnet that you connect to. You can then use your Sidekick app in the same way.

You can now make a test recording when you're setting up the camera. The camera will also make short recordings at the start and end of the recording window. We have also added a cow tab.

The thermal camera companion app, Sidekick is now available for iOS on the App store. It doesn't have full functionality yet, but you can use it to set up the camera and update its location.

A summary of the companies exhibiting on the PF2050 stand at Fieldays 2022: NZ Autotraps, Envico, Trap.NZ, Encounter Solutions, eTrapper, Boffa Miskell, and of course The Cacophony Project.

Mamaku Point in Rakiura, Stewart Island is using thermal cameras and a high interaction rate trap to protect the rare birds on this reserve from predators that make it past the fence.

You can now create your own email alerts when specific animals are detected. Up until now you had to ask us to set this up for you. A new interface...

You can now tag at a finer level of granularity. For example, rather than tagging a track as a mustelid you have the option of tagging it as a stoat, weasel or ferret

A new software release adds a couple more requested features:

• the ability to add pictures to recordings, and
• the ability to manually upload bird recordings.

A new software update includes improvements to audio and video tagging, making the process more efficient and precise. Zoom in on a audio recording to see the wave form, add attributes, many more labels and the ability to control which buttons you see. Station locations are now created automatically

• Pick a nearby network to connect your camera to a WIFI network.
• Fixed too many "battery flat" emails
• Time formats for on/off checked.