Some browsers like Firefox don't like cross-origin requests to URLs using self-signed certs even if you've already trusted certificate on the UI.

Workaround:

In the browser you're using, load an API endpoint (something like https://:8444/rooms) and go through the "this certificate can't be trusted" warning. Then, go back to the UI and refresh the page and see if its fixed.

Can this be ran on all on one system with just a usb camera plugged in, and being able to serve the web user interface to localhost? Also, if so, would it all be in one container, or multiple? Thanks

Currently, the UI is available to anyone with network access to the host. We need to develop or integrate an authentication solution to provide login capabilities.

Changes:

• Updates Flask server to serve React app.
• Removes unused nginx config
• Moves frontend container to an intermediate container in server
• Updates default server port for both the UI and API to 8443

Testing:

• Check out this branch
• Generate new (untrusted) certs: ./create-certs.sh
• Start the server: docker-compose up -d --build
• Open the Web UI in Firefox at https://localhost:8443. After clicking through the certificate warnings, open the debug console and verify there are no CORS errors.
• Navigate to the videos page: https://localhost:8443/videos. Verify the videos load correctly and that there are no CORS errors in the debug console.

Closes #16

Currently, the motion detection algorithm performs background subtraction on the incoming video frames to detection motion. This can cause "false positives", flagging motion that we don't care about (e.g. the wind blowing tree branches)

This should be enhanced to identify more specific "objects of interest" (e.g. a person walking by).

• Adds a base .service file for running streamer as a systemd service.
• Adds create-streamer-service.sh to configure .service file for per-system installation.
• Updates README.md with instructions on how to install streamer service under systemd.

Changes:

• Replaces background-subtraction based motion detection with contour-based approach
• Saved videos now have a box drawn around areas in which motion is detected
• Adds --capture-delay argument to streamer.
• Adds a size limit to the streamer's frame capture queue.

Closes #5

Tasks:

• [x] Implement authentication logic
• [x] Add login endpoint
• [x] Enforce authentication on endpoints
• [x] Integrate authentication into UI
• [x] Cache token as a cookie
• [x] Add mechanism to create a user
• [x] Add /api prefix to all API endpoints
• [x] Validate token on every page
• [x] Implement authentication for SocketIO
• [x] Make Login and Registration pages look acceptable
• [x] Update README

Closes #4

Changes:

• Adds .dockerignore w/ entry to ignore video data dir

Testing:

• Create data/videos and put lots of data into it.
• Check out this branch and run docker-compose build server
• Verify the command does not hang

Fixes #20

References:

• https://pericror.com/software/python-create-a-webrtc-video-stream-from-images/
• https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc
• https://pypi.org/project/av/

The existing UI provides minimal functionality and needs an overhaul

Key changes:

• Update video stream page to allow clicking on stream to increase its size on the page. Possible reduce non-selected videos to side-bar.
• Update the video replay page to make videos searchable by date, time, camera id, etc.