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• Refresh: Wyze's real RTSP status, Dahua's Operation CameraSwarm, and an encryption claim we'd undersold2026-09-01— Five entries refreshed this cycle — plus a correction to our own Noviscan encryption comparison, caught by re-checking two enterprise VMS.
• Refresh: Synology's camera count triples, Milestone's free tier fully shuts off, two new CVEs2026-08-01— Five entries refreshed this cycle — ZoneMinder, Synology Surveillance Station, Milestone XProtect, Reolink, and Hikvision.
• Refresh: Blue Iris build status, UniFi Protect third-party camera support, and new EZVIZ CVE2026-07-22— Five VMS/ecosystem entries refreshed this cycle — version bumps, pricing verification, and security updates.
• Welcome to Surveilbench2026-07-22— Why this site exists, what it covers today, and what changes as we keep testing.