Inventory is an inventory manager written in Go and served as a web page. It was developed to keep track of items in a small scale, like research laboratories or homes.
By default, inventory will run a web server at localhost:8080 and create a
directory at $HOME/.inventory to store the information of each item.
You can change the port and directory by passing:
$ inventory -p 5005 -d /path/to/inventory/dir
localhost:8080 shows a table with the list of items in the inventory. You can
press + Add item to add a new item to the inventory using the web interface
or manually create an entry at $HOME/.inventory.
Each item is added to its own directory with a unique id name and consist of a
info.yaml metadata file, picture.jpg with a picture of the item, and
location.jpg with a photo of the return location.
Once the item is added, it will appear inside the table at the root url. Clicking on the thumbnail of the item will open a new page with a QR code linking that specific item. You can print this QR code and physically attach it to the item.
Scanning the QR code will open an update item interface where the user is
prompted to write their name. Clicking on Use item! will change the state of
the item to in use = true and show the name of the person using the item.
After finishing using the item, scan the QR code again to return the item. This
time, the user is prompted to upload a photo of the place the item was returned
at. Pressing on Return item! will change the state of the item to in use = false and the location of the item can be reviewed by clicking on the
returned link from the main inventory url.
If only restricted users should have access to the inventory, then create a
.htdigest file or .htpasswd file and add users to the realm inventory.
Then, run inventory as:
$ inventory -c /path/to/.htdigest
This will block the access to the inventory main page, but the QR scan can still be accessed by anyone.
You can download the release binaries or compile it from source by running:
$ go get -v github.com/cgxeiji/inventory/inventory