Eagle Viewer

A proof-of-concept web app for browsing Eagle libraries stored on a Synology NAS, from Linux or any browser (Chromebook included).

Built because Eagle only runs on Mac and Windows.

How it works

• Bulk metadata load via a single SSH find | cat command (~3.5s for 372 images, ~30s for 10k+)
• Thumbnails and files served directly from the SMB mount
• Thumbnails cached in memory after first load

Features

• Lists all Eagle libraries on the NAS
• Dark grid UI with adjustable thumbnail size
• Folder tree sidebar
• Search by name or tag
• Lightbox on click
• "Open original" streams the file (mp4, png, pdf, etc.) via HTTP with range support

Known limitations

• Thumbnail cache is in-memory only — resets on server restart
• Large libraries (10k+ images) take ~30s to load on first click (no disk cache yet)
• "Open original" for large video files is slow over SMB — a production version would want a proper media server

Requirements

• Node.js
• sshpass installed (sudo apt install sshpass)
• NAS SMB share mounted at /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=synologynas.local,share=steve/Eagle_Libraries
• SSH access to synologynas.local

Setup

cd ~/workspace/gitea/eagle-viewer
npm install
node server.js

Then open http://localhost:3737 in your browser.

Gitea

http://zen.local:9000/steve/eagle-viewer