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Lapsilapse

What's this?

Lapsilapse has been designed to run timelapses and holy grail timelapses on a Raspberry Pi with the official HQ camera and fully controlled via a responsive web interface. It is meant to be run headlessly with no GUI.

It's a tool I've developed for my personal usage so it's still work in progress with known limitations (see below).

Lapsilapse has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB RAM and I haven't yet seen any performance issues.

Screenshots

Timelapse screen: Timelapse screen

Example

A not-so-great example that I'll update at some point:

Lapsilapse example

How does it work?

Here's a short description of the "happy flow":

  • Install Raspberry Pi OS on a large Micro SD card as curently Lapsilapse doesn't support external drives.
  • Connect your Pi to a network, or set the Pi as a hotspot.
  • Set up Lapsilapse (see below).
  • Start Lapsilapse.
  • The Preview page allows to focus the lens.
  • The Timelapse page sets the timelapse and allows to follow its progress.

Known limitations

Lapsilapse still has a lot of limitations that will be taken care of at some point:

  • Can't use an external drive for storing the timelapse's files.
  • The Shoot page, which allows taking single photos, is not fully developed yet e.g. settings are not effective.

Evolutions

I already have a list of evolutions to implement:

  • Allow to change basic settings in Preview mode.
  • Finish the Shoot page. DONE!
  • Have the possibility to use external drives. 2024-06-05 - DONE!
  • Improve the Holy Grail process - the current system is a very first version, that needs to be enhanced.
  • Run on a prod ready server e.g. gunicorn. 2024-07-11 - DONE !

Setup

To setup Lapsilapse:

  • Clone this repo
  • Create a venv with python -m venv .venv
  • Activate the venv with . .venv/bin/activate
  • Run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt to install the dependencies.
  • Run the server with ./start.sh

Licence

MIT License.

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