Pi Temporal Camera
A flow to automatically create a time-lapse gif from the previous day. Using your Pi camera and the raspistill command in an exec node, pictures are taken every four minutes (or whenever you want). At the end of the day, or when you get enough images, a bash script is called with an exec node. Using ffmpeg, the pictures are assembled into an animated gif to be displayed on your dashboard.
Requires node-red-dashboard.
Requires a Pi camera.
Requires ffmpeg.
Requires a short bash script I have up on Github.
See full project and example pictures at https://github.com/WillWelker/pi-temporal-camera.
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