stream-web-provider 0.1.5

Flask based web video stream provider

stream-web-provider

Links

• Github
• PyPi

General

This is a little useful tool to provide access to the camera of a PC to remote users via a web application.

The tool runs a Flask webserver on the PC. When a user connects to the web application and requests the camera stream, a connection to the connected USB camera is established and the live video is streamed to the browser of the remote user. As soon as the user stops the stream or the selected/default stream duration is expired, the stream is stopped and the USB camera released. After the stream, other applications can access the camera.

To run the tool, please install the Python package and run the following command:

stream-web-provider

For information about available configuration arguments, please run:

stream-web-provider --help.

Firewall Rules

Please be aware that you have to add the port of the web application to your system firewall exceptions. Otherwise, it's not possible to access the application from other PCs.

Open the firewall port:

sudo ufw allow <port>

System Service

For permanent execution of the application (in the background), please install the provided system service (stream_web_provider.service). Please add this file inside the /etc/systemd/system/ directory of your system. Inside this file, you have to update the placeholder username with your username.

After these steps, you have to enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable stream_web_provider.service

Now the service can be started:

sudo systemctl restart stream_web_provider.service

Please check if the service runs properly:

sudo systemctl status stream_web_provider.service