def liveview(): # Connect and set-up camera search = ControlPoint() cameras = search.discover(5) if len(cameras): camera = SonyAPI(QX_ADDR=cameras[0]) else: print("No camera found, aborting") quit() mode = camera.getAvailableApiList() # some cameras need `startRecMode` before we can use liveview # For those camera which doesn't require this, just comment out the following 2 lines if 'startRecMode' in (mode['result'])[0]: camera.startRecMode() time.sleep(2) sizes = camera.getLiveviewSize() print('Supported liveview size:', sizes) # url = camera.liveview("M") url = camera.liveview() lst = SonyAPI.LiveviewStreamThread(url) lst.start() print('[i] LiveviewStreamThread started.') return lst.get_latest_view