from flask import Response from labthings import find_component from labthings.views import PropertyView def gen(camera): """Video streaming generator function.""" while True: # the obtained frame is a jpeg frame: bytes = camera.stream.getframe() yield (b"--frame\r\n" b"Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n" + frame + b"\r\n") class MjpegStream(PropertyView): """ Real-time MJPEG stream from the microscope camera """ responses = {200: {"content_type": "multipart/x-mixed-replace"}} def get(self): """ MJPEG stream from the microscope camera. Note: While the code actually getting frame data from a camera and storing it in camera.frame runs in a thread, the gen(microscope.camera) generator does not. This response is therefore blocking. The generator just yields the most recent frame from the camera object, passed to the Flask response, and then repeats until the connection is closed. Without monkey patching, or using a native threaded server, the stream will block all proceeding requests. """ microscope = find_component("org.openflexure.microscope") return Response( gen(microscope.camera), mimetype="multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=frame" ) class SnapshotStream(PropertyView): """ Single JPEG snapshot from the camera stream """ responses = {200: {"content_type": "image/jpeg", "description": "Snapshot taken"}} def get(self): """ Single snapshot from the camera stream """ microscope = find_component("org.openflexure.microscope") return Response(microscope.camera.stream.getframe(), mimetype="image/jpeg")