Cascaded video analytics. A console built for triage.

What this is, and is not.

Panopti is not a VMS or NVR. It does not record video continuously, enforce retention, or manage storage. It watches, triages, and investigates, and it indexes recordings your NVR produces. Wiring is documented in Setup.

See what operators actually use.

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

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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.

From zero to live grid in 10 minutes.

The minimum useful setup is: Panopti console + the Panopti 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/panopti && cd /opt/panopti
   # (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

   Turn on cascaded analytics

   Set CASCADE=1 on the agent and open Settings → Cascade to enable it per camera. The agent's cascade.mjs starts ffmpeg with a scene-diff gate, opens tracks on motion, and posts closed tracks to /api/public/v1/agent/tracks— the server calls Gemini via the Lovable AI Gateway and inserts a reviewed event into the triage queue. Per-camera thresholds auto-tune from the telemetry the agent sends to /api/public/v1/agent/gate-stats.

   # agent .env
   CASCADE=1
   OPENEYE_URL=https://vms.example.com
   OPENEYE_TOKEN=...
   
   # tune per camera in the console: Settings → Cascade
   #   mv_threshold      - lower = more sensitive (validated 0.1-128)
   #   idle_ms           - close a track after N ms of stillness
   #   max_track_ms      - hard cap on a single track
   #   window_ms         - telemetry rollup window
5. 5

   (Optional) Add Frigate for continuous recording + detection

   Frigate happily consumes the same RTSP URLs and posts events back to Panopti. 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
6. 6

   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.
7. 7

   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)   │ ────────────► │  Panopti agent     │ ───────► │ Panopti console│
  │  Axis · Hikvision   │  WS-Discovery │  (single container)   │  signed  │ (this app)        │
  │  Dahua · Reolink    │ ◄──── PTZ ─── │  ffmpeg transmux      │  URLs    └─────────┬─────────┘
  └─────────────────────┘               └─────────┬─────────────┘                    │
                                                  │ webhook                          ▼
                                ┌──────────────── ┼ ─────────────┐         ┌───────────────────┐
                                │   Optional add-ons              │ events  │  Notifications    │
                                │   Frigate (recording + AI)      │ ──────► │  Slack/webhook    │
                                │   go2rtc, MediaMTX (re-stream)  │         └───────────────────┘
                                └─────────────────────────────────┘