picam_iot

picam_iot provides simple interfacing with the picam V2 and intergrates it with Python computer vision or image processing libraries.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://picam-iot.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Basic image and video capture and recording
• Face detection captured or existing images
• Motion detection from videos
• Local storage management for images and videos
• Dropbox storage management for images and videos

Usage

Requirements

• Raspberry pi camera library
• OpenCV
• Dropbox Core API account and access token
• Enough storage on the raspberry pi, 3GB recommended minimum

Get Started

install dependencies:

$ pip3 install -requirements_dev.txt

basic usage:

>>> from picam_iot import *
>>> img = image() # image management class
>>> vid = video() # video management class
>>> dpx = dropbox_storage(access_token = "<access_token from dropbox>")

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.