Comments on: Raspberry Pi: MJPEG Streaming Web Server (Picamera2)

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:48:01 +0000

Hi.
Do you know the version of Python you have running?

Regards,
Sara

By: Andreas Huwe

Andreas Huwe — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:51:05 +0000

Hello,
on my raspberry pi it does the work. The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “stream_server.py”, line 10, in
import socketserver
ImportError: No module named socketserver

pip install socketserver

results in:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement socketserver
ERROR: No matching distribution found for socketserver

in a python forum there is the information:

socketserver is a standard library module so you don’t need to install it. It looks like you are using Python 2 so use SocketServer, In Python 3 it’s renamed to socketserver.

So what I am doing wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards,
Andreas

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:41:41 +0000

Thanks, very clear instructions – worked well.

By: Dieter Runggas

Dieter Runggas — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:55:52 +0000

The older version with picamera works very very fine. Is there a way to use it with usb cameras at /dev/video0 or /dev/video1?

Best regards from Bochum, Germany

By: bastynator

bastynator — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:39:27 +0000

I was wasting hours trying to get rtsp stream to work without success.
This simple python script just works out of the box and the mjpg can be consumed by Home Assistant straight away.
Thanks!

By: StormingMoose

StormingMoose — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:51:30 +0000

Awesome one more time, thank you!

By: Goncho

Goncho — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:19:34 +0000

Thanks for the content! Question, how would it be possible to fetch the camera feed from the raspberry pi (and the camera module) and then send it to another server which hosts the webserver? In this configuration, the raspberry PI hosts both the picamera python script and the webserver. How can these two be “decouple”?

By: Ingener

Ingener — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:42:46 +0000

sudo apt install -y python3-picamera2
installation in a virtual environment does not work.
You need to make common modules of the global and virtual environment, then this works:

Create a virtual environment with access to global packages:
python3 -m venv myenv –system-site-packages

Activate the virtual environment:
source myenv/bin/activate

Check availability of picamera2 library:
python -c “import picamera2; print(picamera2.version)”

By: Diogen

Diogen — Sat, 25 May 2024 06:05:16 +0000

The procedure works great. If it is started from the cli terminal or via ssh, it is possible to add no-hang-up and work in the background so that it continues to work safely even after the termination of the ssh connection or shutdown of the cli-terminal:

nohup python stream_server.py &