Lapsilapse has been designed to run timelapses and holy grail timelapses on a Raspberry Pi with the official HQ camera and fully controlled via a responsive web interface. It is meant to be run headlessly with no GUI.
It's a tool I've developed for my personal usage so it's still work in progress with known limitations (see below).
Lapsilapse has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB RAM and I haven't yet seen any performance issues.
Timelapse screen:
A not-so-great example that I'll update at some point:
Here's a short description of the "happy flow":
- Install Raspberry Pi OS
on a large Micro SD card as curently Lapsilapse doesn't support external drives. - Connect your Pi to a network, or set the Pi as a hotspot.
- Set up Lapsilapse (see below).
- Start Lapsilapse.
- The Preview page allows to focus the lens.
- The Timelapse page sets the timelapse and allows to follow its progress.
Lapsilapse still has a lot of limitations that will be taken care of at some point:
Can't use an external drive for storing the timelapse's files.The Shoot page, which allows taking single photos, is not fully developed yet e.g. settings are not effective.
I already have a list of evolutions to implement:
- Allow to change basic settings in Preview mode.
Finish the Shoot page.DONE!Have the possibility to use external drives.2024-06-05 - DONE!- Improve the Holy Grail process - the current system is a very first version, that needs to be enhanced.
Run on a prod ready server e.g. gunicorn.2024-07-11 - DONE !
To setup Lapsilapse:
- Clone this repo
- Create a venv with
python -m venv .venv - Activate the venv with
. .venv/bin/activate - Run
python -m pip install -r requirements.txtto install the dependencies. - Run the server with
./start.sh
MIT License.