GardePro renames and moves JPG and MP4 files from GardePro deer cameras.
After I created this program I decided to make a more general version: curate.
This project is now deprecated.
I have two GardePro deer cameras looking across the pasture behind my house. These generate JPG and MP4 files in a fairly standard format within the DCIM directory of an inserted memory card.
Periodically I bring in the memory cards and look through the images and videos. I have been copying interesting ones to my NAS. The interesting ones are sparse (there are a lot of duds). Over time I realized that some of them had the same file names and were overwriting the previous files.
This application renames an individual file and copies it to the NAS. The renaming is done in a way that:
- separates the media into subdirectories by year,
- begins with the date and time so name ordering is chronological, and
- preserves the original basename (for no good reason).
I am counting on the two cameras not taking useful pictures at the exact same second with the exact same base name. There is code to check for non-identical overwrites.
This isn't the command-line usage which can be found in the application source, the godoc, or by building and running it without arguments. This section describes how I configure the application on my system.
When I thought about how I wanted to use this application,
I decided that the simplest thing would be to drag and drop
a file onto a desktop icon.
I created the application to work on a single source file at a time
and hooked it into a .desktop file within the ~/Desktop directory.
This is my ~/Desktop/coyotes.desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.1
Name=Coyotes
Comment=Target for dropping photos of coyotes to go to NAS
Exec=/home/me/bin/gardepro -source=%f -target=/home/me/photos/Homes/Canterwood/Wildlife/Coyotes
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application;
The file shows up on the desktop as a generic icon
since I didn't bother to configure a custom icon.
When I drag and drop a file from the memory chip it passes the
file's path into the %f argument in the Exec string.
The application runs once for each such file,
renaming and moving the file as I desire.
I'm surprised and pleased at how it easy it was to get the drag and drop behavior. The application may be weird hacky crap but the drag and drop desktop integration is really cool. ;-)
This application uses the following Go modules:
- github.com/abema/go-mp4 to get MP4 creation date/time
- github.com/dsoprea/go-exif to get JPG creation date/time
- github.com/rs/zerolog for pretty logging
- github.com/sqweek/dialog to display error messages directly to the user as they occur (they are also logged to a file)
- github.com/udhos/equalfile to compare files in the case of duplicate target paths