Blueye Windows App

The Blueye Windows App can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store. This page contains version history information.

v5.9.0

Release date: 2026.06.20

• Enable voice recording: forward microphone audio to the drone so your spoken commentary is included as the audio track in the drone's video recordings. A microphone icon on the recording timer shows when voice is being recorded; tap it to mute. If the microphone is unavailable or capture fails, a banner explains why and the video still records without sound.
• Show the connected drone model's illustration, logo, and a matching background on the connect screen.
• Show a red "Discovery error" status on the connect screen when the drone is reachable but its discovery service responds with an error, instead of leaving the status on "Not connected".
• Hide manual exposure, white balance, hue, and the X3 Ultra and X7 image-tuning sliders behind a collapsible Advanced section in camera settings, with a badge showing how many advanced settings are currently in manual override mode.
• Add a Recording Quality selector in camera settings to choose between High Efficiency, Normal, and Max Quality bitrate presets, and a Recording Codec selector for H.264 / H.265 on Blueye X3 Ultra and X7.
• Show a brief banner with the active resolution, frame rate, codec, and quality preset when video recording starts.
• Fix UTM coordinate handling in POI and waypoint editors: accept both "32N" and "N32" zone formats, prevent crashes when entering coordinates before a UTM zone, and stop the waypoint Name and UTM Zone fields from being overwritten with "0".
• Change picture capture to always capture pictures on the drone. The app-screenshot picture mode is not available on Windows, and the Picture Mode setting is hidden.

v5.8.0

Release date: 2026.05.19

• Add Blueye Cloud integration (Beta): sign in to sync dive logs, photos, videos, and multibeam recordings to your organisation.
• Fix multibeam sonar fan range labels showing meters in the dive view when the app is set to imperial units, and fix the multibeam range notification displaying a doubly-converted value when imperial units are selected.
• Add support for the Blueye Scaling Laser accessory.
• Fix a crash that could occur when opening the Diagnostics page after the drone connection had dropped.
• Fix a crash if the host machine left the drone network while a software update was in progress.
• Improve stability of drone communication during disconnect/reconnect by adopting upstream NetMQ thread-safety fixes.
• Fix the recording timer not appearing, or showing an inconsistent value, when recording on the main camera and an external (guestport) camera simultaneously.
• Update external dependencies.

v5.7.0

Release date: 2026.04.29

• Revert the popup library from Syncfusion SfPopup back to MPowerKit.Popups (introduced in v5.6.0) because Syncfusion popups failed to render on Android.
• Fix a race condition where the app could end up connected as an observer after starting a dive, caused by a background discovery callback demoting the client while Start Dive was still taking control.
• Fix a spurious "Control lost. You are now an observer" warning when ending a dive, caused by a transient inconsistent state while reconnecting the client as observer.
• Gate the multibeam Gain Boost setting behind a feature flag, only showing it when the connected drone supports it.
• Fix removable storage file listing being attempted when the device is not mounted.

v5.6.0

Release date: 2026.04.17

• Migrate popups from MPowerKit.Popups to Syncfusion SfPopup.

v5.5.0

Release date: 2026.04.12

• Add ARM64 support for Windows on ARM devices.
• Add .mbez file association — double-click multibeam recordings to open them in the app.
• Open multibeam recordings in separate windows, allowing side-by-side playback.
• Single-instance app — opening files while the app is running reuses the existing instance.
• Save downloaded media to user profile folders (Pictures, Videos, Documents) with date-based subfolders.
• Add configurable download folder settings in App Settings.
• Set file creation timestamps to match the original recording date for accurate dive log thumbnails.
• Move multibeam cache files to a temp directory to avoid cluttering user folders.
• Add window titles for the main window, dive menu, mission planning, and multibeam player.
• Add missing Windows platform handling for diagnostics, mission status animation, and input colors.
• Fix depth indicator transparency and heading indicator width on the dive view.
• Ignore tap-to-toggle controller mode when in minimal view.
• Fix screenshot timestamp format.
• Update external dependencies.

v5.4.0

Release date: 2026.04.07

• Initial Windows release with support for drone connection, video streaming, and media transfer.