added a broken make-a-gif functionality

index.html

@@ -23,5 +23,7 @@
 <img id="latest" src="/stills/test.jpg"/>
 
 <p>The full catalog of still images should be seen at <a href="/stills/">http://telescopium.local/stills/</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Telescopium's ip address is <code id="ip_address">ip addr goes here</code>.</p>
 </body>
 </html>

make_a_gif.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/python3
+import os
+from datetime import datetime
+
+def make_it():
+    #filter out and sort to get only the frames we want (noon frames from the last two weeks)
+    files = os.listdir("/var/www/html/stills/")
+    twoweeks = []
+    now = datetime.now()
+    for fi in files:
+        f = "/var/www/html/stills/" + fi
+        dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(os.stat(f).st_mtime)
+        if (now-dt).days < 16 and dt.hour < 13 and dt.hour > 10:
+            twoweeks.append(f)
+    frames = sorted(twoweeks, key=lambda f: os.stat(f).st_mtime)
+
+    with open("/var/www/html/framelist.txt", "w+") as framelist:
+        framelist.write("".join(["file '" + f + "'\n" for f in frames]))
+
+    #make the actual gif
+    print(f"ffmpeg -r 7 -f concat -safe 0 -i /var/www/html/framelist.txt -c copy -s 1280x720 -vcodec libx264 /var/www/html/twoweeks.mp4")
+    print(f"convert -delay 14 -loop 0 -dispose previous {' '.join(frames)} /var/www/html/animation.gif")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    make_it()

take_a_still.py

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/python3
 import os
 import shutil
+import socket
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from datetime import datetime
 
 index_filename = "/var/www/html/index.html"
 
@@ -15,6 +17,15 @@ filename = "/stills/" + os.popen("date +%+4Y-%m-%d-%Hh%Mm.jpg").read().strip()
 
 os.system("libcamera-jpeg -o /var/www/html" + filename)
 
+import make_a_gif
+make_a_gif.make_it()
+
+# figgure out our local ip address
+s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+s.connect(("8.8.8.8", 80))
+ip_address = s.getsockname()[0]
+s.close()
+
 #make sure that the index shows the latest one
 
 soup = None
@@ -26,5 +37,7 @@ with open(index_filename, "r") as the_file:
 
     latest_image['src'] = filename
 
+    soup.find(id="ip_address").string = ip_address
+
 with open(index_filename, "w") as the_file:
     the_file.write(str(soup))

telescopium.service

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ ExecStart=python /home/shoofle/telescopium/take_a_still.py
 User=shoofle
 
 [Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
+WantedBy = multi-user.target

work_log

@@ -19,3 +19,10 @@ added a listing for autoindexing the folder /var/www/html/stills/ with location
 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