py-eyepi

tool to capture images from dslrs and raspberry pi cameras

installation

make sure you have Pillow and Numpy installed for python3 and gphoto2 if you want dslr support.

Also make sure that you have the raspberry pi libs

arch:

# pacman -S raspberrypi-firmware python python-numpy python-pillow gphoto2

raspbian:

# apt update && apt install python3-numpy python3-pil gphoto2

alpine:

# apk add --update raspberrypi-libs py3-numpy py3-pillow gphoto2

Config

config is available through /etc/eyepi/eyepi.conf with logging configuration done through /etc/eyepi/logging.ini

configuration is as follows

[rpicamera]
enable = true # whether to enable this camera, you can also omit the entire section
filenameprefix = "MyCamera" # the prefix for the output images, if omitted, uses "*hostname*-Picam"
interval = 5m # default interval is 10m, but you can specify others, like 5m or 30s

[gphoto.camera1] # the suffix here can also be used instead of "filenameprefix"
enable = true
gphotoserialnumber = "b4e63ebd8704d48a864101496b8fce31" # this is very important, see Gphoto2 Serial Numbers 

images are dropped into /var/lib/eyepi/filenameprefix/filenameprefix_YYYY_mm_DD_HH_MM_SS_00.jpg

Gphoto2 Serial Numbers

Gphoto2 serial numbers are unique identifiers for DSLR cameras.

they can be acquired by using gphoto2 --auto-detect to get the current port of the camera (usually something like "usb:003,002") and then running gphoto2 --get-config serialnumber --port usb:003,002

Docker

A docker image is available but it is not functional yet due to som errors trying to get the raspberry pi camera working. I recommend using ResinOS for this