Blueye
Pilot your underwater drone
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What's New in Blueye
6.4.0
October 9, 2026
- Add an annotation palette to the dive view: a button next to the dive menu opens a panel of annotation types over the video, and tapping one records that annotation in the drone's dive log, stamped with the moment it was made. It needs a drone running Blunux 5.2.0 or newer. The annotation types are managed on a new Annotation types page in the app settings, each with a name, colour and icon, and start from ten common ones. While a Blueye Cloud organisation is selected, the palette offers that organisation's annotation types instead, which are managed in Blueye Cloud. - Show the annotations recorded during a dive at the end of the dive details page, and list them in the Word and PDF dive reports as a table of icon, name and time. A new app setting hides the annotation button from the dive view for those who do not use annotations. - Download map layers from your Blueye Cloud organisation and its projects, including exported multibeam mosaics, to use them on the map without an internet connection. Find them under Manage custom maps in the map settings. - Switch an attached laser on and off from the game controller by holding LB or RB and pressing Y. With a dual-frequency multibeam on the controller, the same buttons still change its frequency. - Fix LB or RB with left or right on the game controller's d-pad changing the lights and the static boost at the same time. - Skip a file from a running transfer by tapping it in the list; tapping it again puts it back in line. - Skip the files already on this device when transferring media from the drone, instead of adding a second copy to Photos. - Add support for the Outland Technology MP-200 manipulator, operated the same way as the Reach Alpha gripper. - Exported multibeam videos show the sonar model and frequency, and optionally the video overlay's title, subtitle and logo. - Fix the multibeam recordings list freezing the app when a recording had no thumbnail cache yet. - Fix the drone's track and marker on the map lagging behind the drone. - Configure a camera connected to a guest port separately from the drone's own camera, in a new External Camera group on the Camera settings page. The Camera page of the dive menu adjusts whichever camera is in view. - Show the local time of day on the depth chart in the Word and PDF dive reports, so pictures and annotations can be matched to the dive profile. - Show when the multibeam is not responding or in use by another computer, instead of it silently failing to start. - Fix GeoJSON maps drawing their shapes solid, ignoring the opacity and line width set on them.
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