jonotoninnovation/scout repository overview

⁠scout

Scout is a standalone open source software solution for DIY video security.

⁠Features

• No monthly fees!
• Easy Installation
  • Lives on your device, on your network
  • Build from source or use Docker pre-built image
  • Customize configuration with YAML
  • Link multiple servers together
• Hassle-free management
  • Need to adjust the camera? No problem! No reconfigure required!
  • No database!
  • Stores images and recordings to your local file system
  • You own your data
  • Auto-prune old data
• Computer Vision
  • Extends already proven libraries for Motion, Object, and Face detection
  • Helps reduce False Positive alerts due to issues such as spider webs or the sun peeking from behind clouds
• Alerts
  • Get notified via email or text when an alert occurs
• Recordings
  • Automatically record when objects are detected
• Continuous
  • Continuous recording with auto-prune

⁠Mobile Client Features

• Access your Scout server remotely
  • Home and Away settings
• Live view of monitors
  • Quick view of all monitors
  • Live Fullscreen with Pan and Zoom
• Alerts
  • Scroll through alerts
  • Alerts Fullscreen with Pan and Zoom
  • Share or Download alerts
  • Platform Notifications for Object, Person, and Face detection
• Recordings
  • Scroll through recordings
  • Recordings Fullscreen with Progressive loading
  • Share or Download recordings
• Continuous
  • Scroll through continuous recordings
  • Continuous recordings Fullscreen with Progressive loading
  • Share or Download continuous recordings

⁠Web Client Limited Features

• Verify setup visually
  • RAM usage
  • Frame Rate displayed
• Live view of monitors
  • Quick view of all monitors

⁠Docker

⁠Run in foreground and remove after

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 -v HOST_DATA_PATH:/scout/data -v HOST_CONFIG_PATH:/scout/.config -v HOST_LOGS_PATH:/scout/.logs jonotoninnovation/scout:TAGNAME

⁠Run in background and keep

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v HOST_DATA_PATH:/scout/data -v HOST_CONFIG_PATH:/scout/.config -v HOST_LOGS_PATH:/scout/.logs jonotoninnovation/scout:TAGNAME

⁠Volumes

⁠Keep Host Date Time Localization

Add to the lines above -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

⁠Enable GPU passthru

Add to the lines above --gpus all