How to use this library?

[weneedred1-stack]

I tried using this library to manually connect to my camera by following the README.md

python3
>>> import asyncio
from onvif import ONVIFCamera
mycam = ONVIFCamera('192.168.0.2', 80, 'user', 'passwd', '/etc/onvif/wsdl/')
await mycam.update_xaddrs()

But the /etc/onvif/wsdl wasn't found naturally I got it from: https://github.com/onvif/specs.git and had to manually copy the devicemgmt.wsdl from specs/wsdl/ver10/device/wsdl/

Now I'm getting another error:

RuntimeError: Loading /ver10/schema/onvif.xsd is not supported in async mode

Is it not possible to simply use this library directly??

[DrissiReda]

The library already contains the wsdl directory just use that as path instead (inside the dist-packages for your python libraries)

You won't get an error that way.

[Puxtril]

I'm also curious why I'm getting this error. I understand this specific library was forked a couple times and is (likely) mainly intended as a HomeAssistant module, but I wonder how an average Joe could manhandle this into working.

I pointed to the wsdl directory installed via the pip package and got the same error.

>>> import asyncio
>>> from onvif import ONVIFCamera
>>> c = ONVIFCamera('192.168.1.59/onvif/device_service', 2020, "rtspuser", "rtsppassword", "venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/onvif/wsdl")
>>> await c.update_xaddrs()

RuntimeError: Loading /home/<user>/Programming/onvif-recording/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/onvif/wsdl/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/onvif/wsdl/devicemgmt.wsdl is not supported in async mode

I'm fairly certain it's printing the wrong path here - omitting the last parameter yields this instead: onvif.exceptions.ONVIFError: Unknown error: No such file: /home/<user>/Programming/onvif-recording/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/wsdl/devicemgmt.wsdl