:mod:`cam_iface` -- Python wrapper of libcamiface

.. module:: cam_iface
  :synopsis: Python wrapper of libcamiface

.. index::
  module: cam_iface
  single: cam_iface

This is a ctypes wrapper of :ref:`libcamiface`. It requires libcamiface 0.5.9 or higher.

Installation

The usual:

python setup.py install

License

pycamiface is licensed under the BSD license. See the LICENSE.txt file for the full description.

Example usage

A very simple example of usage is in the file demo/very_simple.py. This file contains the following:

# Also the example in ../README.rst -- so keep in sync
import pkg_resources
import motmot.cam_iface.cam_iface_ctypes as cam_iface
import numpy as np

mode_num = 0
device_num = 0
num_buffers = 32

cam = cam_iface.Camera(device_num,num_buffers,mode_num)
cam.start_camera()
frame = np.asarray(cam.grab_next_frame_blocking())
print 'grabbed frame with shape %s'%(frame.shape,)