timelapse-allsky

Set of scripts, and a Dockerfile, to clean up old AllSky images, generate and upload a daily timelapse video.

This project has been archived, since the active development has been moved to a private repository.

General description

A Alcor-System OMEA 5C camera, with its original software, generates a series images (in JPEG format) in a folder. The software builds a timelapse video in an ancient format (AVI with XviD codec). This script generates a video in a modern, and browser-compatible, format: VP9 with WebM container.

Usage

Install the latest version of Docker Engine.

Build

Build with:

docker build -t allsky-timelapse .

Run

Assuming that the data directory is /media/allsky, run with:

docker run --rm --user allsky -v /media/allsky:/media/allsky -t allsky-timelapse

This command is meant to be run daily.

Systemd timer

This command can be daily run using the systemd timer run-timelapse-allsky.timer and the corresponding service run-timelapse-allsky.service. Edit them accordingly, then run

cp run-timelapse-allsky.* /etc/systemd/system
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl --now enable run-timelapse-allsky.timer

TODO

For the time being, the following features are not yet implemented:

Cleaning up of old images