I'm trying to get picamera to stream indefinitely and I think the wait_record is close to --timeout in raspivid. When I try to use it, its throwing exceptions.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pip3 list | grep picamera picamera 1.13 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat thing.py import picamera import subprocess import time

if name == "main": gstreamer = subprocess.Popen([ 'gst-launch-1.0', '-v', 'fdsrc', '!', 'h264parse', '!', 'rtph264pay', 'config-interval=1', 'pt=96', '!', 'gdppay', '!', 'tcpserversink', 'host=0.0.0.0', 'port=5006' ], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)

camera = picamera.PiCamera(resolution=(1280, 720), framerate=30) camera.hflip = True camera.wait_recording(10) camera.start_recording(gstreamer.stdin, format='h264', bitrate=1000000)

print("Hello World!")

time.sleep(30)

camera.stop_recording()

gstreamer.stdin.close()

gstreamer.wait()

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ python3 thing.py Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ... /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstTCPServerSink:tcpserversink0: current-port = 5006 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 1161, in wait_recording encoder = self._encoders[splitter_port] KeyError: 1

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "thing.py", line 17, in camera.wait_recording(timeout=10, splitter_port=1) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 1165, in wait_recording 'port %d' % splitter_port) picamera.exc.PiCameraNotRecording: There is no recording in progress on port 1 Pipeline is PREROLLED ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstSystemClock Got EOS from element "pipeline0". Execution ended after 0:00:00.000381678 Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Setting pipeline to READY ... Setting pipeline to NULL ... Freeing pipeline ...

waveform80 / picamera

wait_recording seems busted #648

time.sleep(30)

camera.stop_recording()

gstreamer.stdin.close()

gstreamer.wait()