pi-lapser

Time lapse utility for the raspberry pi.

Installation

This must be installed on a raspberry pi with a camera module attached. Clone or download this repository. Go into the pi-lapser directory.

Install dependecies using pip sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Edit the pi-lapser.ini file to change any defaults.

  [web-server]
  port=80 
  
  [snapshotter]
  autostart=false
  interval=10
  width=1920
  height=1080

Setting	Description
port	the port the webserver front end listens on
autostart	true if you want to immediately start taking pictures when starting pi-lapser
interval	time in seconds in between each picture
width	horizontal size of the pictures
height	vertical size of the picture

Running

Start the app by running the web-server.py file. sudo python web-server.py

Open http://raspberrypi:{{ port }} in a web browser to see the controll page.

If you want pi-lapser to start when the raspberry pi boots up you can install supervisor.

sudo apt-get install supervisor

create a supervisor config file for pi lapser vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/pi-lapser.conf and add the following contents

[program:pi-lapser]
directory=[path to pi lapser dir]/pi-lapser
command=python web-server.py
autostart=true
autorestart=false

Making the time lapse

All of the images are saved in the snapshots directory. You can complete the time lapse using image magick to make a gif or something like mencoder to make a video file