TypeError: must be str, not bytes , Python 3, Raspberry pi - sockets

Question

I am trying to send video from raspberry pi to my laptop via laptop
and save them as pictures so i found the below code online
but I get the following errors when I run them
so i run this client code on the pi using Thonny ide that comes preloaded
, I apologize for the way code is formatted below and would be very grateful if anybody can help me sort this out
Server on the laptop is run using python 3.6 idle
import sys
import numpy as np
import cv2
import socket
class VideoStreamingTest(object):
def __init__(self):
self.server_socket = socket.socket()
self.server_socket.bind(('0.0.0.0', 9006))
self.server_socket.listen(0)
self.connection, self.client_address = self.server_socket.accept()
self.connection = self.connection.makefile('rb')
self.streaming()
def streaming(self):
try:
print("Connection from: ", self.client_address)
print("Streaming...")
print("Press 'q' to exit")
stream_bytes = ' '
while True:
stream_bytes += self.connection.read(1024)
first = stream_bytes.find('\xff\xd8')
last = stream_bytes.find('\xff\xd9')
if first != -1 and last != -1:
jpg = stream_bytes[first:last + 2]
stream_bytes = stream_bytes[last + 2:]
#image = cv2.imdecode(np.fromstring(jpg, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE)
image = cv2.imdecode(np.fromstring(jpg, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_UNCHANGED)
cv2.imshow('image', image)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
finally:
self.connection.close()
self.server_socket.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
VideoStreamingTest()
I get the following error
Connection from: ('192.168.43.3', 47518)
Streaming...
Press 'q' to exit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\John Doe\d-ff\Desktop\AutoRCCar-master
3\test\stream_server_test.py", line 46, in <module>
VideoStreamingTest()
File "C:\Users\John Doe\d-ff\Desktop\AutoRCCar-master
3\test\stream_server_test.py", line 16, in __init__
self.streaming()
File "C:\Users\John Doe\d-ff\Desktop\AutoRCCar-master
3\test\stream_server_test.py", line 28, in streaming
stream_bytes += self.connection.read(1024)
TypeError: must be str, not bytes
Client side on the pi
import io
import socket
import struct
import time
import picamera
# create socket and bind host
client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
client_socket.connect(('ToM', 9006))
connection = client_socket.makefile('wb')
try:
with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
camera.resolution = (320, 240) # pi camera resolution
camera.framerate = 5 # 10 frames/sec
time.sleep(2) # give 2 secs for camera to initilize
start = time.time()
stream = io.BytesIO()
# send jpeg format video stream
for foo in camera.capture_continuous(stream, 'jpeg', use_video_port = True):
connection.write(struct.pack('<L', stream.tell()))
connection.flush()
stream.seek(0)
connection.write(stream.read())
if time.time() - start > 600:
break
stream.seek(0)
stream.truncate()
connection.write(struct.pack('<L', 0))
finally:
connection.close()
client_socket.close()
I get the following error
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Desktop/stream_client.py", line 40, in <module>
connection.close()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 594, in write
return self._sock.send(b)
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
I first thought it might be because of the limited bandwidth since i was running vnc viewer (remote desktop) via wifi on the pi but I don't think it is

Answer 1

I also had same problem. After some searching I found solution.
In python 3 we have to specify whether string is regular string or binary.Thats why we use b'string' instead of just 'string'
Change
stream_bytes = ' '
to
stream_bytes = b' '
Also change
first = stream_bytes.find('\xff\xd8')
last = stream_bytes.find('\xff\xd9')
to
first = stream_bytes.find(b'\xff\xd8')
last = stream_bytes.find(b'\xff\xd9')
Note that you are using cv2.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_UNCHANGED which is not available in opencv3.0
Use cv2.IMREAD_COLOR to show image in color.
Edit these changes and your stream should run smoothly.

Answer 2

connection.write(struct.pack('<L', 0))
Check out by inserting the above within try