picamera-webthing

A WebThing compatible Pi Camera server, for example to be used with the WebThingsIO Gateway.

Screenshots (of the Gateway, picamera-webthing itself has no UI)

Features

• View still image camera snapshots @720p resolution
• View live 720p mjpeg camera stream @30fps
• Compatible with the WebThingsIO IoT Gateway v1.0.0 (see note above)
  • No special adapter required (just the generic thing-url adapter)
• Compatible with all Pi Camera modules that work with the Python picamera library

Details

Uses the webthing-python library along with the picamera library.

Pi Camera properties

Currently, no other camera property like frame rate, resolution, exposure, etc is exported as WebThing properties. This shall be added in later versions.

Still Image

The current still image is provided as a ImageProperty. The images are JPEG encoded, which guarantees compatibility with the Gateway as well as any browser used to display them.

Live stream

The stream is provided as VideoProperty, encoded as MJPEG over HTTP. The latest Gateway version natively supports this, as well as any other browser (too be fair I only tested it with Firefox).