SimpleTimelapsePi

Simple timelapse application for Raspberry Pi with camera module. The main goal was to schedule the timelapse to run in the background at a certain time. This way you can leave the SSH connection and go to sleep peacefully 😴.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pip
• Raspberry Pi
• Camera module

Used libraries

• at - linux command
• picamera2 - python library

Installation

1. clone repo
2. run pip -r requirements.ts
3. open and run commands from file sh-requirements.txt

Usage

There are two modes. You can use simple shell script (recommended) or python script

Shell script

1. Make script executable: chmod +x run.sh
2. Run ./run.sh <start-time> <end-time> <number-of-photos> with custom arguments.

• <start-time> - start time of shooting photos.
  For example: 10:00
• <end-time> - end time of shooting photos.
  For example: 10:30
• <num-of-pictures> - number of expected photos.
  For example: 100

Summary: ./run.sh 10:00 10:30 100 will make 100 photos between 10:00 and 10:30.

3. Read output informations and proceed with y
4. Congrats 🥳. Your timelapse will start up at the set time! Then check folders in current location!

You can check planned actions by atq command. You can remove planned action by atrm <action_id>

Python file

1. Run python timelapse-pi-app.py with custom argumnets.

• <number-of-photos> - number of expected photos.
  For example: 100
• <delay> - delay between photos in miliseconds.
  For example: 200

Summary python timelapse-pi-app.py 100 200 will instantly run process and make 100 photos with deleay of 200ms between each other.

2. Hooray 🥂. Your timelapse are done! Check folders in current location!

Results 🌞

timelapse_1.mp4