Documentation for picamera¶
This package provides a pure Python interface to the Raspberry Pi camera module for Python 2.7 (or above) or Python 3.2 (or above).
The code is licensed under the BSD license. Packages can be downloaded from the project homepage on PyPI. The source code can be obtained from GitHub, which also hosts the bug tracker. The documentation (which includes installation, quick-start examples, and lots of code recipes) can be read on ReadTheDocs.
Table of Contents¶
- 1. Python 2.7+ Installation
- 2. Python 3.2+ Installation
- 3. Quick Start
- 4. Basic Recipes
- 4.1. Capturing to a file
- 4.2. Capturing to a stream
- 4.3. Capturing to a PIL Image
- 4.4. Capturing to an OpenCV object
- 4.5. Capturing timelapse sequences
- 4.6. Capturing to a network stream
- 4.7. Recording video to a file
- 4.8. Recording video to a stream
- 4.9. Recording over multiple files
- 4.10. Recording full-resolution video
- 4.11. Recording to a circular stream
- 4.12. Recording to a network stream
- 4.13. Controlling the LED
- 5. Advanced Recipes
- 6. Camera Hardware
- 7. API Reference
- 8. Change log
- 9. License