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Originally Posted by justmemory

Hi,

first of all I would like to thank the development of this app!

Motion detection is working fine with stock camera app, but the timelapse doesn't take any picture at all (tested with stock camera and FCam). Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong...?

Thanks,

jm

Originally Posted by tetris11_

hey cheers -- haven't done much to this in yonks

Yeah in my experience the timelapse bugs are more to do with the somewhat buggy native alarmd library than anything else -- I was trying to avoid using cron unneccesarily, but maybe I should switch for stability.....

Anyhoo, let me see if I can actually help or not:
* What params did you set for the timelapse?
* Were the relevant alarm cookies showing in the timelapse window?

Originally Posted by tetris11_

The alarmd cookies are the listed items on the second image you provided -- these tell the alarmd daemon: when to run, what to run, and who set the alarm.

So right now you've just confirmed that the cookies are being set properly and read from alarmed properly, but unfortunately alamred is not processing them for some buggy reason I've seen before that comes with executing custom scripts....

This leaves me with two options:
* 1 . write my own background daemon, which would be overkill
* 2. Use cron, which is nice and easy but I have no idea how reliable or resource hungry it is.

I'll try and find some time to play with this over the coming months, but no promises as usual. Thanks for the feedback anyhow

Originally Posted by tetris11_

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

TimeLapse.sh:
=============

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