/LakeLapse

The LakeLapse twitter bot

Primary LanguageC#

Lake Lapse Bot by Oliver Hine

A simple tool for capturing daily timelapses of the sunrise and publishing it online on various social networks.

Features

  • capture images from sunrise to sunset
  • output timelapse video with ffmpeg
  • automatic selection of the "best" sunrise photo
  • montage creation every 7 days
  • daily video posting to twitter

Demo

You can view the output at twitter, instagram, and facebook

Requirements

  • any camera with a guest url for direct jpeg access, we are currently using the g3 flex from ubiquiti
  • twitter account with elevated api access
  • raspberry pi, or Windows Subsystem for Linux to process video
  • include the hashtag #lakelapse in your social media posts with videos produced by this application

Usage

  • edit LakeLapseBot.dll.config with your configuration details
  • ffmpeg in your system path or extracted alongside LakeLapse
  • run ./LakeLapse --verbose or dotnet LakeLapse.dll --verbose
    • additional commands
    • ./LakeLapse --help
    • ./LakeLapse --date "01-01-2022" --montage --verbose