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Requirements

  • Thermo Fisher or JEOL microscope:

    • JEOL scopes are now supported but not widely tested.

  • SerialEM >= 4.1-beta:

    Click here for instructions about how to install and use SerialEM.

  • A linux workstation that is on the same network as the SerialEM computer:

    • Required to connect to SerialEM via the python module.
    • Hard drive accessible by SerialEM and SmartScope in real time mounted via NFS, SMB or similar protocol.
    • 4 cpu cores (Recommended 8)
    • 24 GB RAM per microscope that will connect to the instance.

    Windows support

    It should be possible to run SmartScope on windows with Windows >=10 or Windows Server >= 2016 with Docker but it was not tested.

  • Chrome Web or Firefox web browser

    Safari compatibility

    Safari browser is incompatible.

Installation options

Docker

Docker is much easier to set up on most linux distributions and is therefore recommended. Click here to learn how to install docker.

Podman

Note

The installation requires Podman version >=3.0 and podman-compose 0.1.x. If you are using podman >=3.4, you can use podman-compose from the main branch on github.

Here are the links on how to install Podman and podman-compose: