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# 🏠 EverShelf
> **Self-hosted pantry management system** — Track your food inventory, scan barcodes, get AI-powered recipe suggestions, and reduce waste.
---
<div align="center">
### 🚀 Try the live demo — no installation required!
**[▶ Open Live Demo](https://evershelfproject.dadaloop.it/demo)**
&nbsp;·&nbsp;
[🌐 Project Website](https://evershelfproject.dadaloop.it/)
&nbsp;·&nbsp;
[📖 Wiki](https://github.com/dadaloop82/EverShelf/wiki)
*The demo runs with mock pantry data. AI features are fully enabled. All write operations are safely sandboxed.*
</div>
---
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg)](LICENSE)
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---
## ✨ Features
### 📦 Inventory Management
- **Barcode scanning** — Scan products with your phone camera using QuaggaJS
- **AI identification** — Take a photo and let Google Gemini identify the product, with suggestions from your existing inventory; gracefully shows a friendly message when AI quota is exhausted instead of a raw API error
- **Smart locations** — Track items across Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, and custom locations
- **Expiry tracking** — Automatic shelf-life estimation based on product type and storage
- **Opened product tracking** — Reduced shelf-life calculation when packages are opened; opened-product expiry is now also checked when building banner alerts (not just the dashboard section)
- **Vacuum-sealed support** — Extended expiry dates for vacuum-sealed items
- **Anomaly detection** — Banner alerts for suspicious quantities and consumption predictions with inline correction; dismiss button now shows the current inventory quantity so the action is unambiguous ("La quantità è giusta (2 pz)")
### 🤖 AI-Powered (Google Gemini)
- **Expiry date reading** — Photograph a label and extract the expiry date automatically
- **Product identification** — Point your camera at any product for instant recognition
- **Existing product matching** — AI scan shows matching products already in your pantry before suggesting new ones
- **Storage & shelf-life hint** — When adding a new product, Gemini suggests the optimal storage location and shelf-life in the background; shown as an inline AI badge next to the expiry estimate
- **Recipe generation** — Get personalized recipes based on what's in your pantry; streams live via Server-Sent Events so results appear as they are generated
- **Smart chat assistant** — Ask questions about your inventory, get cooking tips
- **Shopping suggestions with tips** — AI-powered purchase recommendations, each enriched with a short practical buying/storing tip
- **Anomaly explanation** — "🤖 Spiega" button on anomaly banners explains in plain language why a discrepancy likely occurred and what to do
- **Model fallback** — All AI endpoints try `gemini-2.5-flash` first and fall back to `gemini-2.0-flash` automatically
- **Graceful no-key state** — When no Gemini key is configured, AI entry points show a friendly message; the header button is visually greyed with an amber dot
### 🛒 Shopping List
- **Bring! integration** — Sync with the [Bring!](https://www.getbring.com/) shopping list app
- **Generic shopping names** — Products are grouped by type ("Latte", "Affettato", "Panna da cucina") rather than brand, keeping the Bring! list clean and consolidated
- **Smart predictions** — Know what you'll need before you run out
- **Auto-add on depletion** — When a product reaches zero the app adds it to Bring! automatically, no confirmation needed
- **Auto-remove on scan** — Products are removed from the shopping list when scanned in - **Auto-migration** — Items already on the Bring! list are silently renamed to their generic name in the background (throttled, runs on list load)
- **Catalog coverage** — All product types resolve to a German Bring! catalog key for icon and category display in the Bring! app
### 🍳 Cooking Mode
- **Step-by-step guidance** — Follow recipes with a hands-free cooking interface
- **Text-to-Speech** — Voice readout of recipe steps; supports browser Web Speech API, native Android TTS (kiosk), or a custom REST endpoint (Home Assistant, etc.); retries voice loading for up to 10 seconds with a fallback refresh button; TTS activates automatically without requiring the global TTS setting to be enabled
- **Auto-read on navigate** — Each step is read aloud automatically when you tap Next or Previous; the first step is read when entering cooking mode
- **Timer voice alerts** — 10-second countdown warning spoken aloud before each timer expires; expiry announced vocally when time is up
- **Recipe completion** — "Buon appetito!" spoken when the last step is confirmed
- **Built-in timer** — Automatic timer suggestions based on recipe instructions
- **Ingredient tracking** — Mark ingredients as used during cooking; leftover quantities prompt a "move to another location" flow
### 📊 Dashboard
- **Waste tracking** — Monitor consumed vs. wasted products over 30 days
- **Anti-waste report** — Personalised waste rate vs. national average with annual kg estimate; shown above the expiring-items list
- **Expiry alerts** — Visual warnings for expired and soon-to-expire items
- **Opened products panel** — Tracks partially-used items; expiry is recalculated from the opening date using AI (Gemini) + per-category rule fallback; whole sealed packages always keep their original manufacturer expiry; conf items with mixed whole + fractional units are shown as two separate entries
- **Freezer shelf-life** — Granular per-product estimates (USDA/EFSA): fish 120 d, poultry 270 d, whole red-meat cuts 365 d, mince 120 d, vegetables/fruit 270 d, generic 180 d; AI + cache still take priority over rules
- **Safety ratings** — Smart assessment of expired product safety (by category and location); expired unsafe items shown with a red danger banner and "L'ho buttato" as the primary action
- **Expired product banner** — Products that have passed their effective shelf-life (including opened-product reduced expiry) appear in the top notification banner; icon, colour and title adapt to the actual safety level (✅ green for safe, 👀 amber to check, 🚫 red for danger); high-risk items get a prominent discard action
- **Quick recipe bar** — One-tap recipe suggestion using expiring products
- **Anomaly banner** — Scrollable banner with suspicious quantities and consumption prediction mismatches, with one-tap correction or inline edit
- **Expired/expiring alerts** — Priority-sorted banner notifications for expired and soon-to-expire products with use, throw, edit, and dismiss actions
- **Swipe navigation** — Touch swipe or tap arrows/dots to browse banner notifications
- **Quick-access buttons** — Recently used and most popular products shown on the inventory page for fast access
### 📱 Progressive Web App
- **Mobile-first design** — Optimized for phones, works on tablets and desktop
- **Installable** — Add to home screen for a native app experience
- **Multi-device** — Settings and data sync across devices on the same server
### ⚖️ Smart Scale Integration (Add-on)
- **Bluetooth gateway** — Connects a BLE smart scale to EverShelf via local WebSocket
- **SSE relay** — Server-side relay avoids mixed-content (HTTPS→WS) issues
- **Auto-discovery** — Server scans LAN to find the gateway automatically
- **Auto weight reading** — When adding/using a product with unit g/ml, weight fills automatically
- **10g threshold** — Ignores readings that haven't changed enough between products - **Duplicate-reading prevention** — Server-side 12-second dedup window rejects a second scale-triggered deduction of the same product, guarding against BLE multi-fire- **ml conversion hint** — Shows "weight in grams → will be converted to ml" when product unit is ml
- **Stability + auto-confirm** — 10s stable wait + 5s countdown before confirming
- **Real-time status** — Scale connection indicator always visible in the header
- **Multi-protocol** — Supports Bluetooth SIG Weight Scale, Body Composition, Xiaomi Mi Scale 2 and 100+ models
- **Built into kiosk (v1.6.0+)** — BLE gateway runs as an integrated foreground service inside the [EverShelf Kiosk](evershelf-kiosk/) app; no separate APK needed. The standalone gateway app in [`evershelf-scale-gateway/`](evershelf-scale-gateway/) is deprecated but kept for non-kiosk use cases.
### 📺 Android Kiosk Mode (Add-on)
- **Dedicated tablet app** — Full-screen WebView wrapper for wall-mounted kitchen tablets
- **True kiosk lock** — Screen pinning blocks home/recent buttons
- **Setup wizard** — 6-step guided configuration (language, welcome, permissions, server URL, BLE scale scan, screensaver, summary)
- **Smart auto-discovery** — Scans the LAN in parallel (60 threads, TCP pre-check, ports 80/443/8080/8443) with real-time UI feedback; correctly identifies the device's Wi-Fi/Ethernet subnet (VPN and cellular interfaces are filtered out)
- **Built-in BLE scale gateway** — `GatewayService` foreground service; BLE scanning + WebSocket server `:8765` run directly inside the kiosk app. Select your scale in step 5 of the wizard — no external app required
- **Scale auto-configuration** — After selecting the BLE device, the wizard writes `scale_enabled` and `scale_gateway_url=ws://127.0.0.1:8765` to the server automatically
- **Camera & mic permissions** — Full hardware access for barcode scanning and voice; grant button transforms to a green confirmation after granting
- **Native TTS bridge** — Cooking mode voice readout uses the Android TextToSpeech engine directly, bypassing Web Speech API voice limitations; no offline voice packs required
- **Hard refresh** — ↻ button clears WebView cache to pick up web app updates
- **Update notifications** — Checks GitHub releases every 6h, shows banner when updates available
- **SSL support** — Accepts self-signed certificates
- **Android kiosk app** — [`evershelf-kiosk/`](evershelf-kiosk/) — downloadable APK
---
## 🚀 Quick Start
### Prerequisites
- **Web server** with PHP 8.0+ (Apache or Nginx)
- **PHP extensions**: `pdo_sqlite`, `curl`, `mbstring`, `json`
- **HTTPS** recommended (required for camera access on mobile)
### Installation
#### Option A: Docker (recommended)
```bash
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dadaloop82/EverShelf.git
cd EverShelf
# 2. Create configuration file
cp .env.example .env
nano .env
# 3. Start with Docker Compose
docker compose up -d
# → Open http://localhost:8080
```
#### Option B: Manual
```bash
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dadaloop82/EverShelf.git
cd EverShelf
# 2. Create configuration file
cp .env.example .env
# 3. Set permissions
chmod 755 data/
chmod 664 data/.gitkeep
chown -R www-data:www-data data/
# 4. Edit your configuration
nano .env
```
### Configuration (.env)
```ini
# Required for AI features (get a key at https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey)
GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
# Optional: Bring! shopping list integration
BRING_EMAIL=your_email@example.com
BRING_PASSWORD=your_password
# Optional: Text-to-Speech for cooking mode
TTS_URL=http://your-home-assistant:8123/api/events/tts_speak
TTS_TOKEN=your_long_lived_token
TTS_ENABLED=true
# Optional: Security — protect the save_settings endpoint
# Set a strong random string; the Settings UI will ask for it before saving
SETTINGS_TOKEN=
# Optional: Demo mode — block all write operations at the router level
DEMO_MODE=false
```
### Web Server Configuration
<details>
<summary><strong>Apache (.htaccess)</strong></summary>
The app works out of the box with Apache if placed in the web root or a subdirectory. Make sure `mod_rewrite` is enabled and `AllowOverride All` is set.
```apache
<Directory /var/www/html/evershelf>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
```
</details>
<details>
<summary><strong>Nginx</strong></summary>
```nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-server.local;
root /var/www/html/evershelf;
index index.html;
location /api/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
# Deny access to sensitive files
location ~ /\.env { deny all; }
location ~ /data/ { deny all; }
location ~ /backup\.sh { deny all; }
}
```
</details>
### HTTPS Setup (Recommended)
Camera access requires HTTPS on most mobile browsers. Options:
- **Let's Encrypt** with Certbot (for public-facing servers)
- **Self-signed certificate** (for local network only)
- **Reverse proxy** (e.g., Caddy, Traefik) with automatic TLS
### Cron Job (Optional)
Set up a cron job for smart shopping predictions:
```bash
# Run every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * php /path/to/evershelf/api/cron_smart_shopping.php >> /path/to/evershelf/data/cron.log 2>&1
```
### Backup (Optional)
The included `backup.sh` creates local daily backups of your database:
```bash
# Run daily at 3 AM
0 3 * * * /path/to/evershelf/backup.sh
```
---
## 🏗️ Architecture
```
evershelf/
├── index.html # Single-page application (SPA)
├── manifest.json # PWA manifest
├── .env.example # Configuration template
├── backup.sh # Local database backup script
├── LICENSE # MIT License
├── api/
│ ├── index.php # Main API router (all endpoints)
│ ├── database.php # SQLite schema, migrations, helpers
│ └── cron_smart_shopping.php # Background job for predictions
├── assets/
│ ├── css/style.css # All application styles
│ ├── js/app.js # All application logic
│ └── img/ # Static images
└── data/ # Runtime data (gitignored)
├── evershelf.db # SQLite database (auto-created)
├── backups/ # Local DB backups
└── *.json # Token/cache files
evershelf-scale-gateway/ # ⚖️ Android BLE gateway [DEPRECATED — integrated into kiosk v1.6.0+]
├── README.md # Deprecation notice + legacy docs
└── app/src/ # Kotlin Android source (WebSocket + BLE)
evershelf-kiosk/ # 📺 Android kiosk app (add-on)
├── README.md # Setup & feature docs
└── app/src/ # Kotlin Android source (WebView wrapper)
```
### API Endpoints
| Category | Action | Method | Description |
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
| **Products** | `search_barcode` | GET | Find product by barcode |
| | `lookup_barcode` | GET | Look up barcode on Open Food Facts |
| | `product_save` | POST | Create or update a product |
| | `products_list` | GET | List all products |
| **Inventory** | `inventory_list` | GET | List inventory items |
| | `inventory_add` | POST | Add product to inventory |
| | `inventory_use` | POST | Use/consume from inventory |
| | `inventory_summary` | GET | Count by location |
| **AI** | `gemini_identify` | POST | Identify product from photo |
| | `gemini_expiry` | POST | Read expiry date from photo |
| | `gemini_chat` | POST | Chat with AI assistant |
| | `generate_recipe` | POST | Generate recipe from inventory |
| | `gemini_product_hint` | POST | Storage location + shelf-life hint |
| | `gemini_shopping_enrich` | POST | Enrich shopping suggestions with tips |
| | `gemini_anomaly_explain` | POST | Plain-language anomaly explanation |
| **Shopping** | `bring_list` | GET | Get Bring! shopping list |
| | `bring_add` | POST | Add items to Bring! |
| | `smart_shopping` | GET | Smart shopping predictions |
| **Settings** | `get_settings` | GET | Get server configuration |
| | `save_settings` | POST | Update server configuration |
---
## 🔒 Security Notes
- **Credentials** are stored in `.env` (server-side, never committed to Git)
- **Database** stays local — never pushed to remote repositories
- **API keys are never exposed to the browser** — `get_settings` returns only boolean flags (`gemini_key_set`, `settings_token_set`), never raw key values
- **Settings write protection** — set `SETTINGS_TOKEN` in `.env` to require a secret token (`X-Settings-Token` header) for all `save_settings` calls; validated with `hash_equals` to prevent timing attacks
- **Demo / public mode** — set `DEMO_MODE=true` to block all write operations at the PHP router level before any business logic runs
- The API uses **parameterized SQL queries** (PDO prepared statements) against injection
- **Input validation** on all inventory operations (quantity bounds, location whitelist)
- Consider adding **reverse-proxy authentication** (e.g. Authelia, Nginx `auth_basic`) if the server is accessible from the internet
---
## 🛠️ Development
```bash
# Run PHP's built-in server for local development
php -S localhost:8080 -t /path/to/evershelf
# Check PHP syntax
php -l api/index.php
php -l api/database.php
```
The application uses no build tools — edit files directly and refresh.
---
## 📋 Roadmap
- [ ] User authentication / multi-user support
- [ ] Offline mode with service worker
- [ ] Export/import inventory data
- [ ] Notification system (Telegram, email) for expiring products
---
## 🌐 Translations
The app supports multiple languages via JSON translation files in the `translations/` folder.
| Language | Status |
|----------|--------|
| 🇮🇹 Italian (it) | ✅ Complete (base) |
| 🇬🇧 English (en) | ✅ Complete |
| 🇩🇪 German (de) | ✅ Complete |
**Want to add your language?** See the [Translation Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md#-adding-translations) — just copy `translations/it.json`, translate the values, and submit a PR!
---
## 🤝 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed guidelines.
1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/my-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'Add my feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/my-feature`)
5. Open a Pull Request
---
## 📄 License
This project is licensed under the **MIT License** — see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
---
## 👨‍💻 Author
**Stimpfl Daniel** — [evershelfproject@gmail.com](mailto:evershelfproject@gmail.com)
- Website: [evershelfproject.dadaloop.it](https://evershelfproject.dadaloop.it/)
- GitHub: [@dadaloop82](https://github.com/dadaloop82)
---
## 📸 Screenshots
For a live walkthrough with real data and full AI enabled, visit the **[live demo](https://evershelfproject.dadaloop.it/demo)** — no installation required.
> Want to contribute a GIF or screenshots? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) — PRs welcome!