Small script to create timelapses with the Raspberry Pi (Zero W) using Raspistill

timelapse.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Edit interval (in seconds), number of photos and arguments from raspistill --help
INTERVAL=5
NUMPHOTOS=10000
#ARGS="-n -vf -hf -w 1920 -h 1080"
ARGS="-n -vf -hf -w 2592 -h 1458"


DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M_%s")
SAVEPATH="/home/pi/camera/timelapse_${DATE}"

mkdir -p "${SAVEPATH}"

i=0
while [ ${i} -le ${NUMPHOTOS} ]; do
        DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M_%s")
        sec=$(printf "%02d" ${i})
        raspistill ${ARGS} -o "${SAVEPATH}/${sec}_${DATE}.jpg"
        ((i++))
        sleep ${INTERVAL}
done