0.11.0

The 20240423 release, which corresponds to Python SDK 0.11.0, brings a few breaking changes. The changes and how to mitigate them are summarized here.

ouster.sdk module changes

Starting with ouster-sdk v0.11.0, most of core python sdk objects have been moved from the ouster namespace into the ouster.sdk namespace. For example, before ouster-sdk 0.11.0 users used to access the client object using:

>>> from ouster import client

This would still work but will generate a warning message asking the user to update the path to ouster.sdk. Thus the update module path would be:

>>> from ouster.sdk import client

This same change applies to ouster.pcap, ouster.viz, ouster.osf. Each of these modules have been relocated to ouster.sdk.pcap, ouster.sdk.viz, ouster.sdk.osf

Using the new ScanSource

Starting with ouster-sdk v0.11.0, the sdk includes a unified API for accessing LidarScan(s) from the three supported source types: live sensors, pcap files, and osf files. This completely replaces the previous objects that were used to handle each source type. For example, the user used to write the following to manipulate pcap files:

from ouster import client
from ouster.pcap import Pcap
from ouster.sdk.util import resolve_metadata
metadata = open(resolve_metadata(source), "r").read()
info = client.SensorInfo(metadata)
pcap = Pcap(source, info)
scans = client.Scans(pcap, fields=fields)

but to stream from a live sensor the user had to do the following:

from ouster import client

scans = client.Scans.stream(hostname=source)

This has been replaced with the unified ScanSource interface which can be easily constructed using a single method

from ouster.sdk import open_source
scans = open_source(source_url) # where source_url can be a path to pcap or an osf file or a sensor url

Notes for the future

Dropped Support

Next iterations of the Ouster-SDK is going to require C++17 standard at minimum to compile