pyElphel

Control Elphel camera 353 from python using RTSP protocol and from imgsrv access for full resolution images.

Requirement

• Python OpenCv

Installation

From python setup tools

Download the ZIP archive https://github.com/hchauvet/pyElphel/archive/master.zip

Unzip and in the directory pyElphel-master run the following command as a root user

python setup.py install

From python pip repository

Just enter the following command as root user

sudo pip install pyElphel

link to the pypi repository https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=pyElphel

Examples

Video at full resolution (2592x1936) is impossible using RTSP. For this resolution use grab_image_slow(), which relies on imgsrv access through http.

You can also check examples files in test folder for more detailed examples ./pyElphel/test

Set parameters

from pyElphel import Elphel

cam = Elphel()

cam.params['WOI_WIDTH'] = 1280
cam.params['WOI_HEIGHT'] = 720
cam.params['COLOR'] = 1
cam.params['EXPOS'] = 10000

cam.set_params()

Live display

from pyElphel import Elphel

with Elphel() as cam:
    cam.display()
    

Get single image

from pyElphel import Elphel

with Elphel() as cam:
    cam.init_live()

    img = cam.grab_image()

Get single image at full resolution

from pyElphel import Elphel

cam = Elphel()

img = cam.grab_image_slow()