Simple USB webcam streaming
Project Description
Dead simple USB webcam streaming over the internet
Getting started
- Obtain a USB webcam
- Find an internet-connected device with a USB port
- Plug the webcam into the USB port
- Install OpenCV
- pip install webcam-streamer
- webcam-streamer
- You’re live!
Customizations
You can customize the streams delivered by creating and modifying a .webcam-streamer.cfg in your home directory.
Available options
[server] host=0.0.0.0 ; Host to serve the application on port=5000 ; Port to serve the application on [dashboard] title=Webcam Streamer ; Title displayed at the top of the web dashboard [cameras] use_mock=false ; If true, will simulate camera feeds (useful for testing) width=320 ; Width of the camera stream(s) height=240 ; Height of the camera stream(s) fps=10 ; Frames per second to be acquired from camera(s) [camera_names] default=Camera #{id} ; The default title to display above each camera
Additionally, custom mappings of id->name can be included in camera_names. For example, if Camera #0 is the garage camera, you could add something like 0=Garage camera to the camera_names config section.
Screenshot
Because, y’know, why not.
Technical details
webcam-streamer uses Flask, deployed with Gunicorn, to serve a web frontend. Individual camera feeds, acquired from cameras using OpenCV, are delivered to clients using WebSockets.
Requirements
- OpenCV
- Python 2.7+, 3+
License
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2015 Theo Patt/Theopolisme <theo@theopatt.com> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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