bitcraft/shutter

modern libgphoto2 binding for python

shutter

Shutter doesn't expose the entire libgphoto2 API, rather, it tries to create a simple way to capture images from a camera.

Use libgphoto2 to control a tethered camera. Fork of defunct project 'piggyphoto' by Alex Dumitrache

I've cleaned it up quiet a bit, and added patches that were left in pull requests, but much is still untested.

Currently supported on linux and python 3.4

Use

# use the first camera detected on system
import shutter
camera = shutter.Camera()

# capture and save an image
camera.capture_image("file.jpg")

# keep the image data
data = camera.capture_image()
data.save("file.jpg")

# use regular expressions to search for a model
import re
camera = shutter.Camera(re.compile('canon'))

Supports

• Capturing images, previews
• Gracefully handle multiple cameras (regex search)
• Probably more, but untested

Goals

• unit tests, someday
• remove all the cruft!

Supported Cameras

http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

shutter's Issues

capture_image err

zz@zz-N56JN:~$ python
Python 3.6.5 (default, Jun 11 2018, 23:03:46)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import shutter
>>> camera = shutter.Camera()
>>> camera.capture_image("my_pic.jpg")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/zz/.pyenv/versions/booth3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/shutter/shutter.py", line 345, in capture_image
    self.download_and_save(path.folder, path.name, destpath)
  File "/home/zz/.pyenv/versions/booth3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/shutter/shutter.py", line 387, in download_and_save
    srcfolder = srcfolder.encode('ascii')
AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'