Streaming camera with companion computer

Blue Robotics Software Companion (Retired)
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Hello everyone, I need some help so I’m posting this message.
First, let me provide my specifications:

Laptop - Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS Noetic
Companion Computer (Intel NUC) - Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS Noetic

The two are connected via LAN cable, and SSH connection has been successfully established.

After connecting a USB camera to the NUC, I want to stream the video captured by this camera to my laptop in real-time.

Is there a way to execute a Python code on my laptop and stream the live video feed from the USB camera connected to the NUC to my laptop?

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Hi @DANNY231 -
I’m afraid we don’t have any specific experience with ROS Noetic, as it is not used in any Blue Robotics products. You may want to consider running BlueOS on your companion computer, and using the ROS extension? BlueOS makes streaming video from the camera easy! Alternatively, you could peruse the BlueOS source code for inspiration on solving your challenge. A Gstreamer pipeline is being created to send camera video over the network.

Best of luck!