sample time lapse demo!
PiLapse is a Raspberry Pi Python command line tool that records, compiles and emails time lapse video clips
Setting up the arducam
Open pilapse.py, go to line 40 and 41 and fill in the EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE SENDER and EMAIL PASSWORD OF THE SENDER
Ensure that your email is allowing "less secure apps" to access the email account
Open a command line, and type these commands
$ git clone https://github.com/geomin76/pilapse.git$ cd pilapse$ python -m venv venv$ pip install -r requirements.txt
You're fully installed and ready to run the timelapse tool! Refer to the documentation below on how to run this application
Usage:
pilapse.py [-vq] [--interval INTERVAL]
(--photos | --time | --cliplen) VALUE
[--email EMAIL] ...
pilapse.py --help
pilapse.py --version
Arguments:
VALUE Total number of time or photos
EMAIL Email to send file to
Options:
-v verbose mode
-q quiet mode
--photos Number of photos to be taken
--time Total time to be elapsed
--cliplen Length of time lapse clip
--interval=INTERVAL Interval of photos [default: 5s]
--email=EMAIL Email to send file to
--help Show this scre
pilapse.py --interval 10s --photos 100 --email someone@email.com- This command will take 100 photos in 10 second intervals (1000 seconds or 16.67 minutes). After the time lapse is complete, it will email to someone@email.com
pilapse.py -v --cliplen 5m --email someone@email.com- This command will create a 5 minute timelapse video with default 5 second intervals. After the time lapse is complete, it will email to someone@email.com. The Python file will also provide verbose logging.
pilapse.py -q --interval 3s --time 4h --email someone@email.com- This command will take a timelapse of 4 hours with 3 second intervals. After the time lapse is complete, it will email to someone@email.com. The Python file will also provide quiet logging.