# Transmitting image from a wifi camera

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**Category:** Python\
**Tags:** videoio\
**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/transmitting-image-from-a-wifi-camera/2295 "2021-03-22T10:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![berak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@berak](https://forum.opencv.org/u/berak)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/transmitting-image-from-a-wifi-camera/2295/2 "2021-03-22T12:53:26Z")

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[see here for a wonderful explanation](http://sj4000programming.sourceforge.net/0.7.0/html/book.html#wirelessconn)

chapter 3 tells us, that you can connect to a webserver via http (so you could try : `VideoCapture("rtsp://192.168.1.254:554")` and hope they use some known protocol)

chapter 2 shows, that you can also connect it via usb, which would make `VideoCapture(some_number)` work

good luck !

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