RaspberryPi/Timelapse3

Third Timelapse

Timelapse number 3: accomplish a few improvements in the timelapse process.

What's working:

• The camera is working and is able to capture images. There was a problem initially, but after trying to re-enable the camera several times, and rebooting several times, the camera started working.
• The script to dump images into a directory works great in concept. Easy to keep everything segregated.

What to do differently for this timelapse:

• LED off
• 64 gb thumbdrive for space
• camera angles - better control mechanism
• case: improved housing for Pi and for Pi camera (integrated?)

In Progress

Weatherproof case

Pelican case ordered.

Camera LED

I tried unsuccessfully to set the camera LED state from Python script:

import picamera
camera = picamera.PiCamera()
print camera.led
camera.led = False

According to the help page for the camera object, help(camera), this attribute is supposed to control the camera. I also read you had to be root, so I also tried doing this as root by running Python via sudo:

$ sudo python
>>> import picamera
[...]

No success there. The LED light would come on once I had created the camera object, and would not turn off by setting the led attribute to False.

Idea Bucket

RaspberryPi/Weatherproof Camera Case

RaspberryPi/Rainberry

Inspiration: OpenCV to identify (and target) squirrels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4