FireEye
SOCKET.ENGINE INSTEAD.
THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. USEInstallation
Node.js installation:
npm install fireeye
Python installation:
pip install FireEye
These libraries are developed in parallel, and designed to be used together. Please note: The Python side of this library is tested only with Python 3.
Features
FireEye enables real-time bidirectional communication between a Node.js server, and a Python process. It is specifically designed to stream video between these two processes when running on separate devices.
Its main features are:
Speed
Connections are made using TCP sockets and can pass information from processes extremely quickly and reliably. FireEye operates using IPv4.
Easy to use
This library was designed to lower the barrier to entry as much as possible. As such, it has a built in wrapper to send images from process to process.
How to use — Node.js
The following example imports and creates the data socket in Node.js, and then sets up a listener event.
const FireEye = ; var socket = ; socket
The example above can be used to receive entire images sent from Python.
FireEye can also be used to send arbitrary information across the TCP socket. Any JSON serializable object can be sent:
const FireEye = ; var socket = ; var channel = 'channel_1'; socket; socket;
Any channel name can be used, except for image
which is reserved for sending images from Python → Node.js
How to use — Python
The following is a simple example of how to use FireEye in Python:
from FireEye import FireEyeimport cv2 socket = cap = #Camera Number Here ret, frame =
Please Note: Creating a FireEye socket in Python is a blocking action and will not finish until the socket is opened.
As shown above, arbitrary data can be sent across FireEye. Here is an example in Python that matches the one above:
from FireEye import FireEye socket = channel = 'channel_1' response =
FireEye will automatically store the most recent piece of data received over a channel. This data is accessible via the get
method. FireEye runs on a separate thread from the rest of your program and will therefore be constantly reading from the data socket.