Philopho, Raspberry Pi telegraphing Timelapse Photographer

Photo & Timelapse Telegram Bot

MAJOR Features

• timelapses with libcamera, ffmpeg rendering & publishing on Github Pages

• save to folders shots & vids (with data.json & readme.md)

• upload to git and aws glacier

• self cleaning rotating storage

• !! automatically take a timelapse every day !!

TODO

• update @joist/di to v4

• indent 4 spaces, default to double quotes?

• compress (zip?) before glacier upload

• add moderator role to share to channel

Fix regressions, lost features:

• Glacier Backup
• Check/Retry Github Upload
• Destructive Rotation

Create Gallery and publish on github.io!

Discord API exploration and rearchitectured Bot: Sunseph

Using rpicam (previously called libcamera)

We have this new utility since Bullseye (buster 2022). While taking the pictures for timelapses goes through libcamera-still, you can also use other commands, e.g. Videostreaming libcamera-vid -t 0 --width 1920 --height 1080 --codec h264 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:8888 and vlc tcp/h264://192.168.2.138:8888/ to manually adjust the objective, so you get sharp images (or libcamera-vid -t 0 --width 4056 --height 3040 --codec mjpeg --framerate 10 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:8888 and vlc tcp/mjpeg://192.168.2.150:8888/).

I've failed to use this to make captures with more than 370 frames on my RaspberryPi 3 (it just crashes without a stack), so now we are back to scheduling each frame ourselves again. Also, I tried both packages node-libcamera and libcamera (which is a bit smaller), but we might aswell have full control about the spawned process without using additional dependencies

Dependencies

On Debian (Bullseye), install nodejs (with Node Version Manager) and ffmpeg

Test libcamera-still commands, if necessary edit the dtoverlay setting, e.g.

sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg -y
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.0/install.sh | bash
nvm install --lts
npm i -g pm2 tsx

I don't know if there is a copyright on it, I just liked the loading animation a lot.

Discord:

1. Register App
2. Authenticate & add to server: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=948316990228033608&scope=bot&permissions=534723950656

Backup Mount FOLDER_BACKUP_MOUNT

0. See SystemD Service Mount Config
1. Create the service e.g. at sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mnt-phritte.mount
2. Create the credentials file e.g. sudo nano /etc/cifs-creds-phritte with

username=username
password=password

3. Enable and start the service for the first time: sudo systemctl enable mnt-phritte.mount sudo systemctl start mnt-phritte.mount