Photobooth

A photobooth web app. Designed with Raspberry Pi B+ in mind.

Connect your camera to a computer running the app and have the app trigger photos to be taken and displayed neatly in a gallery.

Prerequisites

• Unix OS
• gphoto2
• A camera supported by gphoto2

Setup

Install npm dependencies.

npm install

To change the configuration options, copy config.dist.yaml to config.yaml and adjust any of the values. All options are optional. The defaults are below:

server:
    port: 3000
camera:
    numberOfPhotos: 3
    delay: 3
    keepPhotosOnCamera: true
processing:
    width: 1020
    height: 800
app:
    title: 'My Photo Reel'

Start the app:

npm start

Connect your camera to your computer via USB and ensure that it stays on as long as you want to take photos.

Use

Navigate to localhost:3000 to view a gallery of photos taken by the booth.

Navigate to localhost:3000/control to trigger a sequence of photos to be taken.