Create stream_client.py

raspberryPi/stream_client.py

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+"""
+Reference:
+PiCamera documentation
+https://picamera.readthedocs.org/en/release-1.10/recipes2.html
+
+"""
+
+import io
+import socket
+import struct
+import time
+import picamera
+
+
+# create socket and bind host
+client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+client_socket.connect(('192.168.1.100', 8000))
+connection = client_socket.makefile('wb')
+
+try:
+    with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
+        camera.resolution = (320, 240)      # pi camera resolution
+        camera.framerate = 10               # 10 frames/sec
+        time.sleep(2)                       # give 2 secs for camera to initilize
+        start = time.time()
+        stream = io.BytesIO()
+        
+        # send jpeg format video stream
+        for foo in camera.capture_continuous(stream, 'jpeg', use_video_port = True):
+            connection.write(struct.pack('<L', stream.tell()))
+            connection.flush()
+            stream.seek(0)
+            connection.write(stream.read())
+            if time.time() - start > 600:
+                break
+            stream.seek(0)
+            stream.truncate()
+    connection.write(struct.pack('<L', 0))
+finally:
+    connection.close()
+    client_socket.close()