Capture Timelapse on RPI with FTP Upload

timelapse.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Used to capture images on RaspberryPI and store on FTP Server
# German Blogpost: https://blog.fritschen.net/computer/raspberry/timelapse-langzeit-mit-raspberry-pi-zero/
#
# CONFIG - START
#

# FTP servers userdata
FTPSERVER=""
FTPUSER=""
FTPPASS=""
FTPPATH=""

# (Optional) Format of folder and filename timestamp
FOLDERSTAMP=$(date +%Y_%m_%d)
FILESTAMP=$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M)

# (Optional) File for saving the global increment value
INCFILE="/home/pi/incr.txt"

# (Optional) Temp directory for saving images (should not resides on the SD-Card)
LOCALPATH="/tmp"

# (Optional) Parameters for raspistill
RASPISTILLPARAMETERS=""

#
# CONFIG - END
#

# Get increment value and increment it
if [ ! -f "$INCFILE" ]; then
  echo "0" > $INCFILE
fi
OLD_INCR=$(cat $INCFILE)
NEW_INCR=$((OLD_INCR+1))
echo "$NEW_INCR" > $INCFILE
printf -v USE_INCR "%07d" $NEW_INCR
FILENAME="tl_${FILESTAMP}_${USE_INCR}.jpg"

# Take Image
raspistill -o $LOCALPATH/$FILENAME $RASPISTILLPARAMETERS

# Upload Image
ftp -n <<EOF
open $FTPSERVER
user $FTPUSER $FTPPASS
passive
mkdir $FTPPATH
mkdir $FTPPATH/$FOLDERSTAMP
put $LOCALPATH$FILENAME $FTPPATH/$FOLDERSTAMP/$FILENAME
EOF

# Delete Image
rm $LOCALPATH$FILENAME