zmq version for video file

camera/video_stream/zmq_video_client.py

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-# run this program on each RPi to send a labelled image stream
-import socket
-import time
 from imutils.video import VideoStream
 import imagezmq
+import argparse
+import socket
+import time
  
-sender = imagezmq.ImageSender(connect_to='tcp://jeff-macbook:5555')
+# construct the argument parser and parse the arguments
+ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ap.add_argument("-s", "--server-ip", required=True,
+	help="ip address of the server to which the client will connect")
+args = vars(ap.parse_args())
+ 
+# initialize the ImageSender object with the socket address of the
+# server
+sender = imagezmq.ImageSender(connect_to="tcp://{}:5555".format(
+	args["server_ip"]))
     
 rpi_name = socket.gethostname() # send RPi hostname with each image
 picam = VideoStream(usePiCamera=True).start()

camera/video_stream/zmq_video_client_file.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from imutils.video import FileVideoStream
+import imagezmq
+import argparse
+import socket
+import time
+ 
+# construct the argument parser and parse the arguments
+ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ap.add_argument("-s", "--server-ip", required=True,
+	help="ip address of the server to which the client will connect")
+args = vars(ap.parse_args())
+ 
+# initialize the ImageSender object with the socket address of the
+# server
+sender = imagezmq.ImageSender(connect_to="tcp://{}:5555".format(
+	args["server_ip"]))
+
+rpi_name = socket.gethostname() # send RPi hostname with each image
+video_file = FileVideoStream("../run.mp4").start()
+time.sleep(2.0)  # allow camera sensor to warm up
+while video_file.more(): 
+    image = video_file.read()
+    sender.send_image(rpi_name, image)