Onvif dependencies and camera discovery tools for libValkka.
For more information, see here
From pypi with:
pip install -U valkka-onvif
You can play around with onvif using either ipython cli client or jupyter notebook:
cd examples
ipython3
%run studio.py
Check it out and develop further in examples/studio.py
work in progress
Uses WSDiscovery, and linux arp and arp-scan programs.
In order to enable arp-scan-based tools, please give these commands:
sudo apt-get install arp-scan
sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/arp-scan
The API might still change and will be better documented in the future. This is the state of play at the moment:
from valkka.discovery import *
runWSDiscovery()
# --> returns a list of tuples (ip, port)
runARPScan(exclude_list = [], exclude_interfaces = [], max_time_per_interface=10)
# performs a combination of arp-scan and "rtsp options" probes
# --> returns a list of ArpRTSPScanResult objects
ARPIP2Mac(ip)
# maps ip address to a mac address
# --> returns ArpRTSPScanResult object
# --> to get most recent ip address -> mac address mapping, you should run
getARPCache(update=True)For ArpRTSPScanResult object, please see valkka/discovery/datatype.py in the source code.
WSDiscovery relies on the python-ws-discovery package.
Beware that some camera brands might work poorly with WSDiscovery, for example TP-Link.
The API is explained in more detail in here
work in progress
A multiprocess for onvif calls is provided in here. It can be used to send commands for a group of cameras, while all onvif requests are processed asynchronously, i.e. in non-blocking/parallel manner (for more examples on how to use the multiprocess, please see the camera search program's source code)
PTZ controls will be added at some stage.
valkka-camsearch uses a series of arp-scan(s), WSDiscovery and onvif trial connections to find as much information as possible on the IP
cameras available in your network and produce a yaml file report.
For more details on the output format, see valkka/discovery/camsearch/yaml_format.md
To get started, try this:
valkka-camsearch -h
(c) 2023 Sampsa Riikonen
Contains code from the python-ws-discovery package: please see directory valkka/discovery/wsdiscovery/
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For python-ws-discovery, LGPL, see please see directory valkka/discovery/wsdiscovery/
