lesliewong007/shotit-worker-loader repository overview

⁠Shotit-worker

Backend workers for shotit⁠. Four core workers of shotit: watcher, hasher, loader and searcher.

⁠Features

• watch file system changes and upload hash to shotit-media
• download video from shotit-media, hash, and upload to shotit-api
• download hash from shotit-api, deduplicate, and upload to milvus

⁠Prerequisites

• Node.js 16.x, 18.x
• ffmpeg 4.x
• java (openjdk 1.8.0)
• git
• pm2⁠

⁠Local Development Guide

Install Prerequisites first, then:

git clone https://github.com/shotit/shotit-worker.git
cd shotit-worker
yarn install

⁠Configuration

• Copy .env.example to .env
• Edit .env as appropriate for your setup, as is for the first time.

⁠Start workers

You can use pm2 to run this in background in cluster mode.

Use below commands to start / restart / stop server.

yarn start
yarn stop
yarn reload
yarn restart
yarn delete
yarn logs

To change the number of nodejs instances, edit ecosystem.config.json