Opening settings
Tap the gear icon (⚙️) in the app header to open the settings panel. The panel slides up from the bottom of the screen and stays open until you dismiss it.Settings categories
The settings panel covers three areas:Detection
Confidence threshold, confirmation timing, continuous mode, duplicate filtering, and audio/haptic feedback.
Appearance
Switch between light, dark, and system theme modes.
Language
Choose English, Spanish, or automatic detection from your browser.
Settings persistence
Every time you change a setting, ALPR Vue saves it automatically to your browser’slocalStorage under the key alpr-settings. Your preferences survive page reloads and browser restarts without any extra steps on your part.
Settings are stored locally in your browser. If you clear your browser’s site data or use private/incognito mode with strict storage settings, all settings will reset to their defaults.
Resetting settings
You can reset any individual setting back to its default using the reset button shown next to that setting in the panel. To restore every setting at once, tap Reset all at the bottom of the settings panel.All settings at a glance
| Setting | Default | What it controls |
|---|---|---|
| Audio / Haptic Feedback | On | Plays a beep and vibrates when a plate is confirmed |
| Confidence Threshold | 0.7 | Minimum mean OCR confidence (0–1) required to save a detection |
| Confirmation Time | 3 seconds | How long the same plate must be detected continuously before being confirmed |
| Fast Confirmation Time | 1 second | Shorter confirmation window for high-confidence detections (mean ≥ 0.8) |
| Continuous Mode | On | Keeps the camera scanning after each confirmed plate |
| Skip Duplicates | On | Silently skips plates already present in your detection history |
| Theme | System | Controls whether the interface uses light, dark, or your OS preference |
| Language | Auto | Sets the display language (English, Spanish, or auto-detected from your browser) |