VideoCapture can't open RTSP stream [FIXED]

[Tjirk]

What I have found is the following:
It can happen because the cap.read fuction returns a false, thus the frame is empty.
Possible solutions are to cover it by an if statement

if ret false:
cap.release()
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(‘IP camera’)
ret, frame = cap.read()

This solution doesn’t work because ret is always false.
this keeps me in an endless loop

Why do I get the following error after and hour of operation cv2.error:(-215:Assertion failed) !src.empty() in function 'cvtColor'

Why do I get the following error after and hour of operation cv2.error:(-215:Assertion failed) !src.empty() in function 'cvtColor'

Things work fine for 30 minutes to an hour, then I get the following error: ``` (-215:Assertion failed) !_src.empty() in function ‘cvtColor’ import cv2 import sqlite3 from datetime import datetime connection = sqlite3.connect("/home/harry/interface/wildlife.db") cursor = connection.cursor() x = 1 c = 1 streamTarget = '' def activityScan(status,c): sql=cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM heavenStream WHERE id = ?",(c,)) dbstatus = sql.fetchone()…