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ONVIF Client Implementation in Python
zeep <http://docs.python-zeep.org>
_ >= 3.0.0
From Source
You should clone this repository and run setup.py::
cd python-onvif-zeep && python setup.py install
Alternatively, you can run::
pip install --upgrade onvif_zeep
Initialize an ONVIFCamera instance
::
from onvif import ONVIFCamera
mycam = ONVIFCamera('192.168.0.2', 80, 'user', 'passwd', '/etc/onvif/wsdl/')
Now, an ONVIFCamera instance is available. By default, a devicemgmt service is also available if everything is OK.
So, all operations defined in the WSDL document::
/etc/onvif/wsdl/devicemgmt.wsdl
are available.
Get information from your camera
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
# Get Hostname
resp = mycam.devicemgmt.GetHostname()
print 'My camera`s hostname: ' + str(resp.Name)
# Get system date and time
dt = mycam.devicemgmt.GetSystemDateAndTime()
tz = dt.TimeZone
year = dt.UTCDateTime.Date.Year
hour = dt.UTCDateTime.Time.Hour
Configure (Control) your camera
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To configure your camera, there are two ways to pass parameters to service methods.
**Dict**
This is the simpler way::
params = {'Name': 'NewHostName'}
device_service.SetHostname(params)
**Type Instance**
This is the recommended way. Type instance will raise an
exception if you set an invalid (or non-existent) parameter.
::
params = mycam.devicemgmt.create_type('SetHostname')
params.Hostname = 'NewHostName'
mycam.devicemgmt.SetHostname(params)
time_params = mycam.devicemgmt.create_type('SetSystemDateAndTime')
time_params.DateTimeType = 'Manual'
time_params.DaylightSavings = True
time_params.TimeZone.TZ = 'CST-8:00:00'
time_params.UTCDateTime.Date.Year = 2014
time_params.UTCDateTime.Date.Month = 12
time_params.UTCDateTime.Date.Day = 3
time_params.UTCDateTime.Time.Hour = 9
time_params.UTCDateTime.Time.Minute = 36
time_params.UTCDateTime.Time.Second = 11
mycam.devicemgmt.SetSystemDateAndTime(time_params)
Use other services
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ONVIF protocol has defined many services.
You can find all the services and operations `here <http://www.onvif.org/onvif/ver20/util/operationIndex.html>`_.
ONVIFCamera has support methods to create new services::
# Create ptz service
ptz_service = mycam.create_ptz_service()
# Get ptz configuration
mycam.ptz.GetConfiguration()
# Another way
# ptz_service.GetConfiguration()
Or create an unofficial service::
xaddr = 'http://192.168.0.3:8888/onvif/yourservice'
yourservice = mycam.create_onvif_service('service.wsdl', xaddr, 'yourservice')
yourservice.SomeOperation()
# Another way
# mycam.yourservice.SomeOperation()
ONVIF CLI
---------
python-onvif also provides a command line interactive interface: onvif-cli.
onvif-cli is installed automatically.
Single command example
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
$ onvif-cli devicemgmt GetHostname --user 'admin' --password '12345' --host '192.168.0.112' --port 80
True: {'FromDHCP': True, 'Name': hision}
$ onvif-cli devicemgmt SetHostname "{'Name': 'NewerHostname'}" --user 'admin' --password '12345' --host '192.168.0.112' --port 80
True: {}
Interactive mode
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
$ onvif-cli -u 'admin' -a '12345' --host '192.168.0.112' --port 80 --wsdl /etc/onvif/wsdl/
ONVIF >>> cmd
analytics devicemgmt events imaging media ptz
ONVIF >>> cmd devicemgmt GetWsdlUrl
True: http://www.onvif.org/
ONVIF >>> cmd devicemgmt SetHostname {'Name': 'NewHostname'}
ONVIF >>> cmd devicemgmt GetHostname
True: {'Name': 'NewHostName'}
ONVIF >>> cmd devicemgmt SomeOperation
False: No Operation: SomeOperation
NOTE: Tab completion is supported for interactive mode.
Batch mode
~~~~~~~~~~
::
$ vim batchcmds
$ cat batchcmds
cmd devicemgmt GetWsdlUrl
cmd devicemgmt SetHostname {'Name': 'NewHostname', 'FromDHCP': True}
cmd devicemgmt GetHostname
$ onvif-cli --host 192.168.0.112 -u admin -a 12345 -w /etc/onvif/wsdl/ < batchcmds
ONVIF >>> True: http://www.onvif.org/
ONVIF >>> True: {}
ONVIF >>> True: {'FromDHCP': False, 'Name': NewHostname}
References
----------
* `ONVIF Offical Website <http://www.onvif.com>`_
* `Operations Index <http://www.onvif.org/onvif/ver20/util/operationIndex.html>`_
* `ONVIF Develop Documents <http://www.onvif.org/specs/DocMap-2.4.2.html>`_
* `Foscam Python Lib <http://github.com/quatanium/foscam-python-lib>`_
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