While the AWS DeepLens camera is designed to work with AWS, it’s just a normal linux camera and you can open video streams from OpenCV.
The camera comes with a firewall (UFW) pre-installed, so you need to disable a port for video:
sudo ufw allow 8090
Then edit the ffserver configuration file to expose the streams from the camera:
sudo vi /etc/ffserver.conf
Add the following:
File "/opt/awscam/out/ch2_out.mjpeg" NoAudio File "/opt/awscam/out/ch1_out.h264" NoAudio
Then run ffserver.
Now you can access this remotely with Python:
import cv2
import datetime
camera = cv2.VideoCapture('http://192.168.1.187:8090/feed.h264')
while True:
(grabbed, frame) = camera.read()
if not grabbed:
break
frame = cv2.resize(frame, (int(1920/4), int(1080/4)), cv2.INTER_AREA)
cv2.putText(frame, datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%A %d %B %Y %I:%M:%S%p"),
(10, frame.shape[0] - 10), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.35, (0, 0, 255), 1)
cv2.imshow("Feed", frame)
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
if key == ord("q"):
break
camera.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()