#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Camera live view for testing (lib/camview.dart). Development tool, not the vision service. Streams the USB camera's own MJPEG frames, unmodified, to any client on 7710/tcp: server → client, per frame: [u32 length][f64 capture time, unix s][u32 seq][JPEG] per text: [u32 0][f64 time][u32 text length][UTF-8 text] client → server, lines: "exposure auto" | "exposure <100 µs units>" | "gain <0-240>" → one text reply, "ok " or "err " Texts also carry availability: "camera unavailable" when no frame has come for UNAVAILABLE_S (none yet, or capture stopped), "camera ok" when frames resume. Latest-wins: each client gets the newest frame when it is ready for one, never a queue of old ones. Sockets are paced (SO_MAX_PACING_RATE, project-yukart decision 28) because unpaced bursts stall the USB link to the tablet for seconds. Run on the Orin: python3 camview_server.py [--size 1280x720] [--fps 30] """ import argparse import ipaddress import socket import struct import subprocess import threading import time SO_MAX_PACING_RATE = 47 CONTROLS = {"exposure", "gain"} UNAVAILABLE_S = 3.0 class Latest: """The newest frame, and a condition to wait for the next one.""" def __init__(self): self.cond = threading.Condition() self.frame = None # (seq, capture_time, jpeg) def put(self, seq, t, jpeg): with self.cond: self.frame = (seq, t, jpeg) self.cond.notify_all() def after(self, seq, timeout): with self.cond: self.cond.wait_for(lambda: self.frame and self.frame[0] > seq, timeout) return self.frame def capture(dev, w, h, fps, latest): # multipartmux frames each JPEG with a Content-Length header, so no JPEG parsing is needed. cmd = ["gst-launch-1.0", "-q", "v4l2src", f"device={dev}", "!", f"image/jpeg,width={w},height={h},framerate={fps}/1", "!", "multipartmux", "boundary=yukartframe", "!", "fdsink", "fd=1"] seq = 0 while True: p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL) out = p.stdout try: while True: length = None while True: # headers up to the blank line line = out.readline() if not line: raise EOFError line = line.strip() if line.lower().startswith(b"content-length:"): length = int(line.split(b":")[1]) elif not line and length is not None: break jpeg = out.read(length) if len(jpeg) < length: raise EOFError seq += 1 latest.put(seq, time.time(), jpeg) except EOFError: print("capture ended; restarting in 1 s", flush=True) p.kill() p.wait() time.sleep(1) def v4l2(dev, *args): r = subprocess.run(["v4l2-ctl", "-d", dev, *args], capture_output=True, text=True) return r.returncode == 0, (r.stdout + r.stderr).strip() def control(dev, line): parts = line.split() if len(parts) != 2 or parts[0] not in CONTROLS: return "err expected: exposure auto| or gain " name, value = parts if name == "exposure" and value == "auto": ok, msg = v4l2(dev, "-c", "auto_exposure=3") elif name == "exposure" and value.isdigit(): ok, msg = v4l2(dev, "-c", "auto_exposure=1", "-c", f"exposure_time_absolute={value}") elif name == "gain" and value.isdigit(): ok, msg = v4l2(dev, "-c", f"gain={value}") else: return "err bad value" _, state = v4l2(dev, "-C", "auto_exposure,exposure_time_absolute,gain") return ("ok " if ok else "err ") + (msg or " ".join(state.split())) def serve_client(conn, peer, dev, latest, pace): conn.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, SO_MAX_PACING_RATE, pace) conn.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_SNDBUF, 256 * 1024) # bound what can queue behind a frame conn.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1) alive = threading.Event() alive.set() send = threading.Lock() # frames and texts share the socket; never interleave them def send_text(text): # Texts go in-band as a frame with length 0 and the text after the header. msg = text.encode() with send: conn.sendall(struct.pack("!IdI", 0, time.time(), len(msg)) + msg) def reader(): buf = b"" try: while alive.is_set(): b = conn.recv(1024) if not b: break buf += b while b"\n" in buf: line, buf = buf.split(b"\n", 1) reply = control(dev, line.decode(errors="replace").strip()) print(f"{peer}: {line.decode(errors='replace').strip()} -> {reply}", flush=True) send_text(reply) except OSError: pass alive.clear() threading.Thread(target=reader, daemon=True).start() seq = 0 sent = 0 available = None # unknown until the first frame or the first timeout try: while alive.is_set(): f = latest.after(seq, UNAVAILABLE_S) if not f or f[0] <= seq: if available is not False: available = False send_text("camera unavailable") continue if available is not True: available = True send_text("camera ok") seq, t, jpeg = f with send: conn.sendall(struct.pack("!IdI", len(jpeg), t, seq) + jpeg) sent += 1 except OSError: pass alive.clear() print(f"{peer}: gone after {sent} frames", flush=True) conn.close() def allowed(ip): a = ipaddress.ip_address(ip) return a.is_loopback or a.is_private or a in ipaddress.ip_network("100.64.0.0/10") def main(): ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("--dev", default="/dev/v4l/by-id/usb-USB_Camera_1080P_USB_Camera_1080P_01.00.00-video-index0") ap.add_argument("--size", default="1280x720") ap.add_argument("--fps", type=int, default=30) ap.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=7710) ap.add_argument("--pace", type=int, default=4_000_000, help="bytes/s per client") a = ap.parse_args() w, h = map(int, a.size.split("x")) latest = Latest() threading.Thread(target=capture, args=(a.dev, w, h, a.fps, latest), daemon=True).start() s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) s.bind(("0.0.0.0", a.port)) s.listen(4) print(f"camview: {a.dev} {w}x{h}@{a.fps} MJPEG on tcp {a.port}, paced {a.pace / 1e6} MB/s per client", flush=True) while True: conn, addr = s.accept() if not allowed(addr[0]): conn.close() continue print(f"{addr[0]}: connected", flush=True) threading.Thread(target=serve_client, args=(conn, addr[0], a.dev, latest, a.pace), daemon=True).start() if __name__ == "__main__": main()