PyCA – Matterhorn Capture Agent
PyCA is a fully functional Opencast Matterhorn [MH] capture agent written in Python. It is free software licenced under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License [LGPL].
The goals of pyCA are to be…
- flexible for any kind of capture device
- simplistic and minimalistic in code and functionality
- unrestrictive in terms of choosing capture software
PyCA can be run on almost any kind of devices: A regular PC equipped with capture cards, a server to capture network streams, small boards or embedded devices like Raspberry Pi [RPi], Beagleboard, Cubieboard, …
Backup Mode
By setting backup_mode = False in the configuration file, the PyCA will go
into a backup mode. This means that capture agent will neither register itself
at the matterhorn core, nor try to ingest any of the recorded media or set the
capture state. This is useful if the CA shall be used as backup in case a
regular capture agent fails to record (for whatever reasons). Just match the
name of the pyCA to that of the regular capture agent.
Installation
Here is a short summary for Debian based OS like Raspian:
git clone https://github.com/lkiesow/pyCA.git cd pyCA sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev virtualenv venv . ./venv/bin/activate pip install icalendar python-dateutil pycurl configobj vim etc/pyca.conf <-- Edit the configuration ./start.sh
For RedHat bases systems like Fedora it's almost the same:
git clone https://github.com/lkiesow/pyCA.git cd pyCA sudo yum install python-virtualenv virtualenv venv . ./venv/bin/activate pip install icalendar python-dateutil pycurl configobj vim etc/pyca.conf <-- Edit the configuration ./start.sh
| [MH] | http://opencast.org/matterhorn |
| [LGPL] | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lkiesow/pyCA/master/license.lgpl |
| [RPi] | http://www.raspberrypi.org/ |