Originally Posted by tetris11_

A quick fix until then would be to install cron, phone-control, and imagemagik and run:

TimeLapse.sh:
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Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Edit these
cap_script=/home/user/MyDocs/cap_script.sh
cap_dir=/var/tmp

an_script=/home/user/MyDocs/animate_script.sh
output_anim= $cap_dir/output_animation.gif

every_N_min=20
between_hour="11-12"

####################


# Make capture script
echo "
#!/bin/bash
phone-control --capture $cap_dir/`date +%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S`.jpg
" >  $cap_script

# copy+backup current crontab
crontab -l  > old_cron.txt
cp old_cron.txt current_cron.txt

# Make the animate script that also restores the previous cron (and deletes the timelapse job)
echo "
#!/bin/bash
convert   -delay 20   -loop 0   $cap_dir/*.jpg  $output_anim
crontab old_cron.txt
rm old_cron.txt
" >  $an_script


# The following will execute the capture script "every N minutes" between the hours of "between_hour" just for today

echo "#min  hour   dom  mon dow year" >> current_cron.txt
echo " */$every_N_min   $between_hour   `date +%d\ %m\ %w\ %Y` $cap_script >> current_cron.txt

# Add animation script an hour after it runs to cron
echo " 0   $(( `echo $between_hour | egrep "[0-9]+$"` + 1 ))   `date +%d\ %m\ %w\ %Y`  $an_script >> current_cron.txt


# Write new crontab
crontab current_cron.txt
rm current_cron.txt