Construction timelapse with external timer #188
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Sorry, got the timing wrong. Should be like this: !MNAKE=1!MWAKE=1!MBOOT="!Ldaily"!SAVEdaily=mTP>06:00<20:00!1SQ!20:00E!1U~!1U Timer goes on each day at 06:05 and off at 22:00 |
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External timers with boot scripts are very reliable. Nice! The command is tad malformed. !SAVEdaily=mTP>06:00<20:00!1S+!20:00E+!U is cleaner. |
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Thank you for the tips, the external timer with boot script is a very strong solution, resetting the camera every day is a big plus if something goes wrong (ie. thermal problems). |
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Would you be willing to give or make a full extensive tutorial on how to accomplish this?! Super interested! |
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Hi all!
I think GoPro Labs is a great way to extend and configure the functionality of the cameras. Thanks to everyone who is contributing to the development! Im doing long term construction timelapse and I figured a way to avoid random camera freeze over longer timelapse projects was to use an external timer / remote controlled relay on the AC power supply in combination with a boot script. In this way I hope the camera will be reset and restarted every day. For the next week or so I will be testing this setup with the below script:
!MNAKE=1!MWAKE=1!MBOOT="!Ldaily"!SAVEdaily=mTP>06:05<20:00!1SQ!20:00E!1U~!1U
Timer goes on each day at 06:00 and off at 22:00
This means that if the timer malfunctions and is left on, the capture will stop after one day. I'm a little uncertain how looping and the conditional statement works togehter: Would something like the below version work better?
!MNAKE=1!MWAKE=1!MBOOT="!Ldaily"!SAVEdaily=mTP>06:05<20:00!1SQ!20:00E!1U!1R~!1U!900NQ!1R
Happy to hear your thoghts on how to improve this setup.
cheers /
Martin
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