telegen-shims-picamera 0.1.0.dev6

Shims for the PiCamera library for the CounterFit virtual IoT device app

CounterFit Shims - Picamera

Shims for the Picamera to read from a virtual camera

See the Picamera Docs for the API documentation.

Getting started

To use these shims, you will need to install CounterFit and have it running, with the appropriate camera hardware created. Create the camera with a name of Picamera.

• Install this package from pip:

  pip install telegen-shims-picamera
  

• Import Picamera using the counterfit_shims_picamera package instead of the picamera package, as well as importing the TeleGenConnection from the counterfit_connection module:

  from counterfit_connection import TeleGenConnection
  import counterfit_shims_picamera
  

• Configure the connection to the CounterFit app. Change the hostname and port to where you are running it:

  TeleGenConnection.init('127.0.0.1', 5000)
  

• Write your Picamera code as usual.

  For example, to capture an image as a JPEG:

  camera = PiCamera()
  image = io.BytesIO()
  camera.capture(image, 'jpeg')