Timelapse Script

cron

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
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# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
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# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
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# at 5 a.m every week with:
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#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command
25 20 * * * /root/start_timelapse.sh

dotimelapse.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Time-lapse capture script
# Max Bainrot 12-06-2015

# CONFIGURATION
FRAME_DELAY=5.0 # Delay each frame by 5 seconds
FRAME_COUNT=8640
OUTPUT_FOLDER="/tmp/timelapse"
FILENAME_DATE=`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`
ARCHIVE_OUT="/root/$FILENAME_DATE.tar.gz"

TITLE="Maxicam 1.0"
SUBTITLE="**Meow** =^.^="
INFO="AUTHOR: Max Bainrot"

# END OF USER SERVICABLE CODE
i=0
echo "CAPTURING... [CTRL+C] to cancel..."
while [ $i -lt $FRAME_COUNT ]
do
	ts=`date +%s`
	nextts=$(($ts+5))
	fswebcam -r 1280x720 -S 15 --jpeg 99 -p MJPEG --shadow --title "$TITLE" \
		--subtitle "$SUBTITLE" --info "$INFO" \
		--save "$OUTPUT_FOLDER/$ts.jpg"
	
	while [ $ts -lt $nextts ]
	do
		ts=`date +%s`
		sleep 0.05
	done

	i=$(($i+1))
done

tar -czzf "$ARCHIVE_OUT" "$OUTPUT_FOLDER/"

start_timelapse.sh

#!/bin/bash
screen -dmS timelapse /bin/sh /root/dotimelapse.sh