pyaxiscam

pyaxiscam is a Python library used to control Axis Communications IP cameras. You can access information about the camera as well as grab images (and video stream in the future).

Getting Started

Your Axis camera must fir be set up using its web interface. It is recommended to do this with Internet Explorer on a Windows PC for the best compatibility. Once set up, you now have a host name (or IP address), username ('root' by default), and the password. Initialize and AxisCam object using the following line - make sure to replace 'host', 'username', and 'password' with the IP address, username and password determined in the setup:

cam = AxisCam('host', 'username', 'password')

A live image can be retrieved by using the following command:

image = cam.get_live_image()

This image can then be processed using OpenCV for example.

A live image can be retrieved and displayed by using the following command:

image = cam.display_live_image()

The image is displayed by the default image viewer.

Prerequisites

requests, io, PIL