Tell us! Which feature is missing?

[anxuae]

This is not an issue so much as a lightweight way of gathering information about which feature is missing to pibooth. This is mostly to satisfy our curiosity, but might also help us decide how to evolve the project.

So, if you use pibooth, please post here and tell us more! And if you like this project, add a star ⭐.

[jasharrar]

Not an issue but this is the booth that I made with your help.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmO5Lmni1n/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=6rxp83eq3j47

[anxuae]

Hi Jasharrar,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. It's look really great!

anxuae

[Aurel-Charles]

Hi guiys!
I was wondering if.... maybe we can have all the final photos (after "processing") in a folder ... and all the picture taken in an other one . don't know if we can manage to have the date+time on each file name so there all unique (meaning avoiding "ptb000,ptb0001.....)

Cause when I uploaded on a google photo or whats so ever ... its a bit of a mess or really long to order evrething!.
It might be easier to manage photos after a party.

Its just an idee but let me know what do you think about it!

Aurel

[werdeil]

Hi Aurel-Charles, it is a nice improvement indeed, I have opened a new issue for that #43. I'll try to work on this soon.

[deha89]

Hi werdeil, at first: your solution of a photo-booth is amazing. I would like to use it for my wedding. Therefore I could need a hint, where I can add one feature: I use the picamv2 and there is an api "image_effect". I would like to integrate this feature into your pibooth. Do you have an idea?

[anxuae]

Hi deha89, thanks for your feedback.

The difficulty depends on how you want to change the image effect: if the effect is permanent, we can easily manage it in the config file. Else if the user have to chose the effect, it will be more complicated. Can you tell me more about your need?

anxuae

[deha89]

Hey anxuae, thanks for the fast reply. It would be fine for me to set the effect permanent. Via config file sounds good. Shortly I also thought about it but i didn't find the line, where the access on the picamera api happens. Just adding image_effect='blur' isn't enough, right? Could you help me?

[anxuae]

Ok I created the #45 to manage this change request.

[anxuae]

Hi @jasharrar and @Aurel-Charles,

I allowed myself to use your photos and videos in order to make a short demo gallery of what is it possible to do with the pibooth: https://github.com/werdeil/pibooth/wiki .
Anyway if you are disagree, tell me and I will remove them.

anxuae

[theonlyuser]

Hey,

I just found this nice Project, thanks for the huge work you did!

I missing the possibility to disable the live-view. My Sony Alpha A6000 isn t able to have live-view / capture view. Is it maybe possible to deaktivate the live-view, because otherwise it leads to a problem, and no picture is taken.

Thanks in advance

regards

[werdeil]

Hi @theonlyuser Can you open a new issue explaining the issue? is it that the transition between live-view and capture is not working or that the A6000 doesn't provide the preview? I'll try to find a Sony DSLR to test on my side.

[Wikinaut]

Suggestion: add Webcam support

I would like to be able to use PiBooth also with a standard Webcam like Logitech C922 PRO.

[moskate49]

suggestions:
-sauvegarde des photos sur répertoires multiples (SD et copie sur clée USB par exemple)
-un bouton pour eteindre proprement le raspberry sans clavier

[iditude]

suggestions:
-sauvegarde des photos sur répertoires multiples (SD et copie sur clée USB par exemple)
-un bouton pour eteindre proprement le raspberry sans clavier

Hello,

For the one button to shutdown raspberry, this already exists. More info here. Maybe it could be part of doc, but this can work without pibooth. https://forums.framboise314.fr/viewtopic.php?t=4423

Simple as adding dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown in file /boot/config.txt and plugging a pushbutton to pin 5 and 6.

G

Bonus: It also starts the pi

[moskate49]

Works great thx
What about multiple folders save??
A play mode for looking all pictures will be a greath feature for review photo on another day

[thifi]

I would also like to say thank you for your great work and the support I got during the construction of the pibooth photo-box.
Here is a link to some pictures of my pibooth photo-box.
[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3suovagm3uizh90/AACXiAlKOYQA-NPyAQo7YzhWa?dl=0]

Have a great day...
Thifi

[anxuae]

Hi Thifi,

Thanks a lot for your feedback, I attached your photo-box pictures to the pibooth'wiki.

regards,
anxuae

[anxuae]

Hi moskate49,

What about multiple folders save??

I'm not sure to understand the need? The savedirectory can be defined in the config: a path on the SD card or a path to an USB stick. Why do you need to duplicate your picture in two different places?Never the less, you can open a specific issue for this topic

A play mode for looking all pictures will be a greath feature for review photo on another day

Think this can be useful, but difficult to integrate in pibooth. There are lots of application that already do this, for instance: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-photo-frame/ .

regards
anxuae

[moskate49]

i want save pictures in 2 folder 1 on raspberry inside the photobooth and a copy on usb key outside of the photobooth in case of failure of the raxpberry for exemple or use pictures on other support without open the photobooth (sorry for my english )

[anxuae]

Suggestion: add Webcam support

I would like to be able to use PiBooth also with a standard Webcam like Logitech C922 PRO.

@Wikinaut some webcam are now supported since v1.1.2!

[JakubKontra]

What about CHROMAKEY support?

[SBillion]

Hi,
First, big thanks for this project. I did a lot of party with a simple cardboard box to contain it. Hope to have more time to play a little bit more with it and do multiple size of box depending of the kind of party or festival. Lot of funny application are possible.
Anyway, I can't get the time to collaborate on your project at this moment but I need a simple way to generate all the photos again, using the originals present in raw folder and subfolders after changing the config file. This way, it would be easy for every pibooth owner to enhance their previous picture with a better title, more effects, etc...

[werdeil]

Hi,
First, big thanks for this project. I did a lot of party with a simple cardboard box to contain it. Hope to have more time to play a little bit more with it and do multiple size of box depending of the kind of party or festival. Lot of funny application are possible.

If you can please send us photos of your setup, we will add them to the wiki section

Anyway, I can't get the time to collaborate on your project at this moment but I need a simple way to generate all the photos again, using the originals present in raw folder and subfolders after changing the config file. This way, it would be easy for every pibooth owner to enhance their previous picture with a better title, more effects, etc...

I like the idea, I'll try to do an external script to rerun the photo generation, I've opened a dedicated issue #89 to follow this.

[MickaelB]

Hi,

some features that can be usefull:

• hybrid mode support webcam (opencv)
• videobooth (webcam or raspi + micro) with ffmpeg or other
• webserver Publish pictures Pibooth #52

I'm a newbie in pyhon but i can help you in debug or others things

thanks

[EhrhardtDa]

I‘d like a full screen preview of the processed image for some seconds. Possibly instead of the thank you screen or additional.
Another possibility would be, that you can enlarge the last picture from the start screen by clicking or tapping.

I‘m already working on a gallery Webserver solution. I made it working with PicApport, but I didn’t really like that solution. I‘ll try Lychee next.

[valerius-bits]

Hi,

some features that can be usefull:

• hybrid mode support webcam (opencv)
• videobooth (webcam or raspi + micro) with ffmpeg or other
• webserver Publish pictures Pibooth #52

I'm a newbie in pyhon but i can help you in debug or others things

thanks

Hi,
Second to those features +

• preview image to be on screen all the time when waiting for selections
  maybe a small window on right top

• hybrid mode support webcam (opencv)

you can change in /controls/camera/"init.py" and "hybrid.py" from "rpi_camera" to "cv_camera"

[adam010984]

Hello, thanks for the app and thanks for the help.
I'm looking help for 2 things :

1. i would like to change the font size of my footer_text. The text are very small on my photos (i didn't find the answer on the site)
2. i would to like to change the text of my tactical button ?

Thanks for your answers and sorry for my english.

[Kandax86]

Hello,
I would like to know if there is an easy way to generate thumbnails versions (realy smaller version) from the final picture in a subdirectory of rendered images.
for exemple if the image is "1.jpg"
we have : /home/pibooth/Pictures/1.jpg with high quality
and i want to have a
/home/pibooth/Pictures/thumbs/1.jpg which is the same image but in 72dpi and 300px width for example.

Thank you

[werdeil]

@Kandax86 this could be done with a plugin but depending on why you want thumbnails (which application will use it) you may want to do it on the other application.

[Kandax86]

@werdeil yes i thought about doing it with an other app. In fact.
I made an app that scan the output image dir and lists output so you can have a preview and a Print button.

like this:

but image are so huge in final format that it takes to raspberry like 3 secondes to load preview on the fly when you swap a picture to an other. So i want for the preview smaller images so its faster to load in preview window.

If i do it when i load the reprint app, it has to wait that all missing thumbs are generated to load instead of generate thumb 1 by 1 synchronously with the final full res image render.

[Kandax86]

@werdeil I finally decided to improve my skill and make the code in plugin :)

here it is hope it can be usefull for others

"""Plugin generate thumbnail of picture."""

import os
from PIL import Image
import pibooth
from pibooth.utils import LOGGER

__version__ = "1.0.0"

@pibooth.hookimpl
def pibooth_configure(cfg):
    """Declare the new configuration options"""
    cfg.add_option('PICTURE', 'thumbs_width', 300,
                   "Width of the generated thumb picture")
    cfg.add_option('PICTURE', 'thumbs_folder', 'thumbs',
                   "Folder of the generated thumb picture based on suffixing general directories")



@pibooth.hookimpl
def state_processing_exit(app, cfg):
    thumbs_folder = cfg.get('PICTURE','thumbs_folder')
    thumbs_width = cfg.getint('PICTURE','thumbs_width')
    basewidth = thumbs_width
    name = os.path.basename(app.previous_picture_file)
    img = Image.open(app.previous_picture_file)
    wpercent = (basewidth / float(img.size[0]))
    hsize = int((float(img.size[1]) * float(wpercent)))
    img = img.resize((basewidth, hsize), Image.LANCZOS)
    for savepath in cfg.gettuple('GENERAL', 'directory', 'path'):
        thumbpath = savepath+'/'+thumbs_folder+'/'
        if not os.path.exists(thumbpath):
            os.makedirs(thumbpath)
        img.save(thumbpath+name)
    LOGGER.info("Thumb file '%s' created", name)

Edit: I improved the script with configuration options

[vo55]

First of all thank you for the software! It really well documented and I was able to get it running out of the box (except for the printer - but that is due to the printer and not due to pibooth. Printers, meh :( ).

My request would be to not only be able to configure the GPIO pins for the controls but also the button mappings (currently it is "Left" "Right" "P" "CTRL+E" for Layout, picture and printing I think). This is due to the fact that I am thinking about using a remote presenter instead of the buttons. Most of the presenters just emulate keyboards to navigate through presentations but it could be used as a remote for pibooth as well, if the controls can be changed (presenters use "Up", "Down" "F5/ESC" typically). So if I configure it to print one photo automatically, the guests could use the presenter to choose the layout and trigger the photo without "running" to the box.

[jeyremy]

I did join officially the familly of pibooth :

so glad i found your amazing work.

[laurammiller]

Thank you! I was able to put the hardware together and have a working pibooth very quickly. The only issue that I had was not reading the documentation more carefully and initially starting with the wrong OS on the raspberry pi. I used a raspberry pi camera I embedded in the lens of a thrift store camera, my old HP printer with the CUPS driver, and several of the plugins (photo layout and auto upload to Google photos). Then I hid the wiring with some Halloween decorations. It was a great success!

[werdeil]

@laurasees thanks for sharing your pibooth version! And thank you a lot for the sponsor! I'll try to improve the documentation for the future users.

[totemfotosmdp]

I'm very happy with this open source!! I'm sharing my version, check my IG and follow me :) https://www.instagram.com/totemfotosmdp/

[Rdlgrmpf]

As already mentioned several times, this is really is a great project. I especially like the extended customization through plugins.

I have a receipt printer (similar to Epson TM88) that I will use to effectively print a "preview" with a QR code to download the full image. It is also cheaper than a real photo printer 😄 .

I successfully implemented the plugin (https://github.com/Rdlgrmpf/pibooth-escpos) but I would like to give users the choice to print, instead of always printing.
These printers can be integrated with CUPS, but it sometimes is a bit of a hassle. My TH230, for example, does not have a CUPS driver. Horizontal pictures also need to be rotated and resized to fit properly.

TL:DR It would be great to extend the plugin API to also hook into printing functions. That way I can use the existing printing workflow but just print differently without CUPS.

[Lescoal]

Hello there, hello @anxuae, hello @werdeil

A feature proposal would be a boomerang effect and a gif effect in addition to captures ranging from 1 to 4 photos. I already have the python code for both features that is working but I don't know how to integrate them yet.

Probably I can give you my code and you can help me or add it to the pibooth project ?

By the way, amazing project and amazing work you did there !

Regards

[anxuae]

Hello @Rdlgrmpf , great plugin and great idea. I've created an issue for that: #431

[anxuae]

Hello @Lescoal , any contribution is welcome. Don't hesitate to open an issue to share your code

[anxuae]

Thanks @philipbarwi for reporting possible enhancement, I've created an issue about it: #432

[anxuae]

Hello @adam010984

1. i would like to change the font size of my footer_text. The text are very small on my photos (i didn't find the answer on the site)

The font size is automatically computed depending on the available place. So if you text is long, height will be small.
You can use the char \n in your text to do a carriage return.

2. i would to like to change the text of my tactical button ?

Use pibooth --translate if you want to change the text of your translations

[anxuae]

Hi @dominiquegrota,

Thanks for sharing. Are you able to write in an issue a "step-by-step" documentation in order to setup a gallery on an other RPi?

1. give the steps to configure rsync on the RPi hosting pibooth
2. give the steps to install and configure pipresent project (https://pipresents.wordpress.com/)

[anxuae]

Thanks to @jeyremy, @laurammiller, @mhilcher, @peteoheat, @XoVooth for sharing your Photo Booth realization! You are now in the pibooth wiki 😄

[Feridoun]

This is great! Any way to share the photos by Whatsapp?

[dominiquegrota]

Hi @dominiquegrota,

Thanks for sharing. Are you able to write in an issue a "step-by-step" documentation in order to setup a gallery on an other RPi?

1. give the steps to configure rsync on the RPi hosting `pibooth`

2. give the steps to install and **configure** pipresent project (https://pipresents.wordpress.com/)

Hi @anxuae, It took me a few hours, but I got it ! the step by step is ready.
The steps are :
1.Install pipresents on a specific raspberry
2. Setup pipresents
3. Connect ssh between pibooth raspberry and pipresents rapsberry
4. create a rsync script
5. setup a plugin to fire rsync at each new picture on pibooth

Here is the detail : (#468)

Thank's to @KenT2 for the Pipresents app !

[srvoets]

Here are a few photos of my creation. I previously used the TouchSelfie software but have converted over to PiBooth as it is so feature rich and being extended with plugins (I've even created one myself).

I didn't want to use any external power supply. So it is powered by 2 x 20000mah powerbanks. Power bank 1 provides power to the Raspberry Pi and the screen. Powerbank 2 powers the large ring light, the Neopixel ring and a display that usually sits on top to attract people to the booth.

I used a Raspberry Pi 3+ but am considering upgrading it to a Pi4 that I have spare. The only reason to really is to reduce the processing time for the 3 or 4 image options. Otherwise performance from the Pi3+ is perfectly acceptable.

What kind of box and stand is this? I need to change my setup from the cyberdeck version I have going now

[peteoheat]

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[lduriez]

Hello,

Here is what I did with my father for my wedding day. We still have to customize it a bit as for now it's "raw wood" (I will add photos later)

I install pibooth on a Raspeberry Pi 4, the camera is a Canon EOS 1400D, and printer a Canon SELPHY CP1300.

[totemfotosmdp]

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[ForestRupicolous]

Thank you for creating this. It really helped a lot for haveing a photo booth.
One new idea would be to have the option that the camere triggered on its own and then the foto is processed by pibooth.
I already have a remote trigger for my camera which is also faster than triggering via USB (at least for my 1000D).
I would expect that it is only a small change in the gphoto2 settings.
Thanks again.