Camera & Vision

The RobotPy project provides robotpy-cscore, which are python bindings for cscore, a high performance camera access and streaming library introduced by FIRST in 2017. It can be used to:

• Stream a USB/HTTP camera to SmartDashboard or the LabVIEW dashboard via HTTP

• Capture images from USB or HTTP camera, modify them using OpenCV/Numpy, and send them via HTTP to SmartDashboard, the LabVIEW dashboard, or a web browser.

robotpy-cscore is intended to be usable on any platform supported by OpenCV and Numpy, and is a more flexible and powerful alternative to solutions such as mjpg-streamer.

Note

cscore is potentially useful outside of the FIRST Robotics Competition, as it has very high performance and ease of use compared to other solutions.

• On the RoboRIO
  • Installation
  • Automatic camera streaming
  • Image processing
  • More information
• Other platforms
  • Installation
  • Automatic camera streaming
  • Running a custom cscore program
  • Launching your script at startup
  • Viewing streams via the LabVIEW dashboard or Shuffleboard
  • More information
• Custom Image processing
  • vision file
  • Multiple Cameras
  • More information
• Limitations
  • opencv-python
  • USB Camera Support