using open cv to control relay

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And your problem is...? What did you try? It seems that you didn't invest the minimal effort to solve this.

I'm lost as to how I should even start this project to be quite frank. I've been reading through all the tutorials I can find on open cv and it seems that everything is geared to capturing images and processing them, but not actually doing anything physical, if that makes sense. I want the program to be able to pick out either green, blue, or red colors. Then, once one of those colors is detected, send a signal to a relay to turn on a pump for a specified length of time. If you could just point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it!

I want to use open cv to be able to identify 3 colors: red blue, and green. and then when it detects those colors,

an image will be helpful to understand your need

@sturkmen. U don't needed images. Probably used webcam.

@Noob87. What ur pi model OS? R u using webcam or picamera?

I do not have relay switch. I can substitute for leds

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I'm using a raspberry pi4 and a picamera. I have been able to alter code to pick up the three colors I need. I guess now my question is how do I get the program once it finds a color (say blue) to send a signal to the GPIO pins to turn on my relay for the pump? Once the program finds a color, is that stored as a variable which can be used to send such signal? I'm really confused. Thanks again everyone for your time.

I am using pi4 with 4gb/8gb, Buster v10. Thonny 3.7.3. I posted my answer detected blue colour. Notitced, I used 5% for 100 and 105. If ur colour is slightly than my. U can in increasing 10% to make sure rectangle doesn't shaking.. Btw, I do no have the code with me.I'm off for a years.

With this:

if len(bluecnts)>0:
    blue_area = max(bluecnts, key=cv2.contourArea)
    (xg,yg,wg,hg) = cv2.boundingRect(blue_area)
    cv2.rectangle(frame,(xg,yg),(xg+wg, yg+hg),(0,255,0),2)
   #if rectangle is detected, then do something to set boolean to turn gpio on
   :
   :

Btw, u can used VideoCapturer api with picamera

Yes, i'm using a code that does that - it is able to pick out red, blue, and green colors from a live stream via the picamera. now, I need it to send a signal to my relay whenever it sees those colors to open the relay to start a pump. that is the part that I'm stuck on.

Can u post snippet code(not whole code)? If it is detected colour, then set boolean 1. And then turned gpio pin(s) to relay switch on. U need 3 colour at simultaneously or one at a time? Can u post image of robot arms? U have one channel(one relay switch)?

Here is example:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

channel = 21

# GPIO setup
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(channel, GPIO.OUT)

def detect_blue(pin):
   #put blue code in here
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.HIGH)  # Turn motor on

def detect_blue_off(pin):
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.LOW)  # Turn motor off

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        detect_blu(channel)
        time.sleep(1)
        detect_blue_of(channel)
        time.sleep(1)
        GPIO.cleanup()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        GPIO.cleanup()

I can't post here because of max characters.

Snippet:

import numpy as np 
import cv2 

# Capturing video through webcam 
webcam = cv2.VideoCapture(0)  
# Start a while loop 
while(1):      
    # Reading the video from the 
    # webcam in image frames 
    _, imageFrame = webcam.read() 

    # Convert the imageFrame in  
    # BGR(RGB color space) to  
    # HSV(hue-saturation-value) 
    # color space 
    hsvFrame = cv2.cvtColor(imageFrame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV) 

    # Set range for red color and  
    # define mask 
    red_lower = np.array([136, 87, 111], np.uint8) 
    red_upper = np.array([180, 255, 255], np.uint8) 
    red_mask = cv2.inRange(hsvFrame, red_lower, red_upper) 

    # Set range for green color and  
    # define mask 
    green_lower = np.array([25, 52, 72], np.uint8) 
    green_upper = np.array([102, 255