I don't think this code works. If it does then we really over complicated the way we did it.
Code:
cap = cv2.VideoCapture()
cap.open("http://169.254.197.26/")
I just made this repo public. We haven't officially cleaned it up and done our 2016 code release but it provides an example of how to read images from an IP camera in python.
https://github.com/Frc2481/paul-buny...Camera/main.py