telescopium/readme.md

# Telescopium!

This is a lil raspi i made that has a camera and automatically takes a picture every day at noon. It's recording my garden yard! I'm delighted by it. In theory it should also automatically compile it into a timelapse. Baby steps for now though. Here's the log of all the shit i've done so far.

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basic setup like hostname, enable ssh, wifi, etc., all done with the raspberry pi imager so i didn't have to do them

physically installed camera module

installed nginx

installed vim

made nginx point to telescopium.local so i can actually display the stuff from it

android can't connect to mdns addresses such as telescopium.local

made some folders in /var/www/html/ to do stuff

command for outputting a datetime filename: date +%+4Y-%m-%d-%Hh%Mm.jpg

added a listing for autoindexing the folder /var/www/html/stills/ with location /stills/ { autoindex: on; }

made a python script to take a picture, plus a systemd service and timer to take pictures daily! they need to be symlinked into /etc/systemd/system/

finally realized i never did `systemctl enable telescopium.timer --now` so the timer never started which is why my daily task hasn't been running. remedied.

telescopium physical has been installed in its place in the rear window. also i made it so that it prints its current ip address in the webpage.

gonna try and make it so it converts the latest month of images into a gif, at a rate of one week per second? hopefully just using imagemagick.
update: i am deep in the bowels of imagemagick and ffmpeg trying in vain to get this to work

fixed the unrelated issue where it was taking a picture every time the system rebooted. it's because i had the telescopium service enabled in addition to the timer; i disabled the service and made sure only the timer was enabled

for some reason it crashes most of the times you try to do a particularly intensive operation such as "compile 15 images into a timelapse with ffmpeg" or, like, fuckin', "resize an image". i don't know what's up. major thorn in the side of my agenda to make it automatically resize images

uhhhhh okay so hi

we need to make this rsync the stills folder to somewhere on the nas. how do we do that
make sure the destination folder exists on destination host
make sure we have an ssh key for the destination host
rsync /var/www/html/stills shoofle@cygnus.local:~/telescopium