#OpenCV – Access to a camera in a Jupyter Notebook with #Python 🐍

Hi !

Super quick post today, with an answet to a question that we had last week in one of our Reactor Sessions:

Can we access to a camera 🤳 while I’m coding in a Jupter Notebook?

So, the answer is YES. Here is a sample:

And as usual, let’s share some code and some notes to test this.

• I’m coding this sample using Visual Studio Code and the Jupyter Notebook extension (link)
• I’m accesing camera 2 on my devices, I have several cameras.
• I’m using matpotlib to show the image, from an OpenCV Mat. This is super cool, it automatically understand Mat().
• Important: remember to release the camera at the end!

And here is the code: