A VMS that follows the suspect, not the vendor.

See what operators actually use.

Real captures from the console against the bundled demo dataset - not mockups.

Pursuit viewAI triageForensic searchInvestigationsMaps & layoutCamera registrySystem healthGuided setup

openeye · /live

Spatial follow-the-suspect mode. Focus camera at the center, the 8 nearest cameras ringed around it by compass direction. Click any neighbor to recenter; the layout re-pivots in place.

Honest scope.

These are deliberately delegated to open-source projects that already do them well. Wiring is documented in Setup.

From zero to live grid in 10 minutes.

The minimum useful setup is: OpenEye console + the OpenEye agent on a Linux host. The agent discovers your cameras over ONVIF and transmuxes RTSP to LL-HLS that the browser can play directly.

1. 1

   Sign up and seed demo data

   Open the console and create an account - the first user automatically becomes admin. Use the Demo menu in the top bar to seed sites, cameras, events and detections so every screen has data to show. No hardware required.
2. 2

   Generate an agent token in /setup

   Open Setup, click New token, then download the generated docker-compose.yml and Caddyfile. The bundle wires the agent to your console with a signed bearer token.

   # On your Linux box
   mkdir -p /opt/openeye && cd /opt/openeye
   # (drop the docker-compose.yml + Caddyfile downloaded from /setup here)
   docker compose up -d
   docker compose logs -f agent

3. 3

   Discover cameras on the LAN

   In Cameras → Add camera, the wizard runs ONVIF WS-Discovery through your agent and lists every device it found. Pick one, enter credentials, and the agent's GetProfiles / GetStreamUri calls auto-fill the RTSP URL. ffprobe validates the stream before you save.
   ONVIF Profile S
4. 4

   (Optional) Add Frigate for continuous recording + detection

   Frigate happily consumes the same RTSP URLs and posts events back to OpenEye. The /setup page also generates a starter frigate-config.yml and a docker-compose service for it.

   # docker-compose.yml fragment (also generated for you in /setup)
   services:
     frigate:
       image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
       devices: ["/dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb"]   # Coral
       environment:
         OPENEYE_URL: https://vms.example.com
         OPENEYE_TOKEN: ${AGENT_TOKEN}
       volumes:
         - ./frigate-config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro
         - /mnt/nvr:/media/frigate

   Frigate docs Frigate MQTT
5. 5

   Wire notifications

   In Notificationsadd a Slack incoming webhook or a generic HTTPS webhook with a severity threshold. Escalating any triage event will fan out to every matching channel with a delivery log.
6. 6

   Put it behind TLS

   The generated Caddyfile already terminates HTTPS at vms.example.com and proxies the agent + console. WebRTC and modern browsers require it.

   # Caddyfile (auto-generated)
   vms.example.com {
     reverse_proxy /api/agent/* agent:8787
     reverse_proxy /hls/*       agent:8787
     reverse_proxy *            openeye:8080
   }

  ┌─────────────────────┐  ONVIF/RTSP   ┌───────────────────────┐  LL-HLS  ┌───────────────────┐
  │  IP cameras (any)   │ ────────────► │  OpenEye agent     │ ───────► │ OpenEye console│
  │  Axis · Hikvision   │  WS-Discovery │  (single Go/Node bin) │  signed  │ (this app)        │
  │  Dahua · Reolink    │ ◄──── PTZ ─── │  ffmpeg transmux      │  URLs    └─────────┬─────────┘
  └─────────────────────┘               └─────────┬─────────────┘                    │
                                                  │ webhook                          ▼
                                ┌──────────────── ┼ ─────────────┐         ┌───────────────────┐
                                │   Optional add-ons              │ events  │  Notifications    │
                                │   Frigate (NVR + AI)            │ ──────► │  Slack/webhook    │
                                │   go2rtc, MediaMTX (re-stream)  │         └───────────────────┘
                                └─────────────────────────────────┘