study-picamera-examples

A collection of picamera example based on OpenCV

requirements

• python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.6
• OpenCV 2.4 or 3.x

dependencies

If you use desktop version of Raspbian, you may need to install following packages.

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake pkg-config
sudo apt install -y libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev
sudo apt install -y libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt install -y libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev
sudo apt install -y libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt install -y libatlas-base-dev gfortran
sudo apt install -y libqtgui4 libqt4-test
sudo apt install -y libilmbase12 libopenexr22 libgstreamer1.0-dev
sudo apt install -y python3-dev python3-pip
sudo pip3 install numpy opencv-python picamera[array] flask imutils pyzbar

getting started

1. Enable PiCamera sudo raspi-config nonint do_camera 0
2. Clone this repository on your Raspberry Pi
3. Go to the directory
4. Run python3 camera/main.py
5. Open Chrome browser with localhost:5000 from your local workstation