pylwdrone

Python package to communicate with a drone's lewei camera module. This module does not control the drone's flight yet.

Example Command-line Usage

Stream live video

$ pylwdrone stream start --out-file - | ffplay -i -

Stream live video, without buffer or "lag"

$ pylwdrone stream start --out-file - | ffplay -i -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -probesize 32 -sync ext -

Record live video then replay later

$ pylwdrone rec start
$ pylwdrone rec stop
$ pylwdrone rec list
index  start              duration  path
[  0]  20200604_04:01:27        95  /mnt/Video/20200604-040126.mp4
[  1]  20200604_04:10:40        20  /mnt/Video/20200604-041040.mp4
success
$ pylwdrone rec play 0 --out-file - | ffplay -i -

Example Module Usage

Creating the object

>>> import pylwdrone
>>> drone = pylwdrone.LWDrone()

Stream live video

>>> for frame in drone.start_video_stream():
>>>     sys.stdout.buffer.write(frame.frame_bytes)

Get a file

>>> with open('video.mp4', 'wb') as fp:
>>>     drone.get_file('/mnt/Video/20200604-041040.mp4', fp)

Take a picture

>>> with open('picture.jpg', 'wb') as fp:
>>>     fp.write(drone.take_picture().data)

Start and stop recording

>>> drone.set_record_plan()
>>> drone.set_record_plan(RecordPlan(active=False))