ZanzoCam - Python module

Python module of ZanzoCam, a remote camera for autonomous operation in isolated locations, based on Raspberry Pi.

See the full documentation for this project here and the internal docs here)

Setup

This package provides the z-webcam command to a Raspberry Pi OS, once all the prerequisites are satisfied.

It can be installed on a Raspberry Pi with:

pip install "zanzocam[deploy] @ git+https://github.com/ZanzoCam/zanzocam-core.git"

Tests

Tests should be run on a Raspberry Pi, but the unit tests can be run also on another machine or on a CI.

To make a test install on a Raspberry Pi, run:

git clone https://github.com/zanzocam/zanzocam-core.git
cd zanzocam-core
pip install -e .[test-on-rpi]
pytest

Docs

To build the docs, first install the dependencies (on any machine) with:

pip install "zanzocam[docs] @ git+https://github.com/ZanzoCam/zanzocam-core.git"

Then move into the docs and execute:

make html

You will get the resulting doc pages under build/html.

Contribute

This project is young and we have no definite contributing guidelines yet. Open an issue, make a small PR or get in touch with the developers at zanzocam@gmail.com before investing a lot of time into a feature or a bugfix.

As a starting point, here are my current guidelines:

• The system must stay small and simple.
• The system must stay monolithic and fully executable on the Raspberry (no server components here, see this repo if you want to improve the server side).
• Always make sure all tests pass before sending a PR.
• Keep the code tidy, short and heavily commented.
• ZanzoCam must support Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and HQ from a Raspberry Pi Zero W in its base version.

Get in touch

You can reach out at zanzocam@gmail.com for any question or remark that doesn't fit as a GitHub issue.