Tornado-image-streamer

An image streamer over the Internet. A tornado backend is used to configure a JPEG image streamer using either server "push" mode, or client "get" mode. All communication is streamed using HTML5 websockets for maximum throughput.

Technolgies used

Client side:

• jquery
• websockets
• HTML5

Server side:

• Python3 (Python2 is not supported)
• Tornado (WebSocketHandler)
• PIL
• numpy
• opencv

Basic Installation

Activate a Python virtual environment and execute the following command,

pip install -U tornado-image-streamer

Test the application,

tornado_image_streamer --simulate

Linux Developer Installation

Install a virtual environment,

mkdir ~/venv
cd ~/venv
python3 -m virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 tis_env
source tis_env/bin/activate

Activate the virtual environment,

source ~/venv/tis_env/bin/activate

Install this package,

pip install -U -e git+https://gitlab.com/hsmit/tornado-image-streamer.git#egg=tornado_image_streamer

Test the application,

python test2/src/tornado-image-streamer/tornado_image_streamer/run.py -s

User installation

In your current python3 environment execute the following,

pip install -U git+https://gitlab.com/hsmit/tornado-image-streamer.git#egg=tornado_image_streamer

Test the application,

tornado_image_streamer --help

Usage

$ tornado_image_streamer --help
Usage: tornado_image_streamer [OPTIONS]

  Tornado web server that streams webcam images over the network.

Options:
  -p, --port INTEGER     IP port used for the web server (default: 8888)
  -s, --simulate         Enable simulated camera.
  -m, --mode [get|push]  The mode of operation (default: push).
  --help                 Show this message and exit.