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A Raspberry Pi operated Wireless Allsky Camera
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Standalone operation of capture_RPiHQ.cpp #413

Closed arifindobson closed 3 years ago

arifindobson commented 3 years ago

Hi I a still trying to understand behind the scenes operation of Allsky, I am curious is it possible to run capture_RPiHQ.cpp alone? I found some limitations on piHQ camera exposure time using PiCamera, I found Allsky's other features are not suitable for my application (sampling the twilight sky near horizon with various exposure time) , so I am super curious is is possible to run capture_RPiHQ.cpp on it's own to replace PiCamera library.

Keogram and Startrails manual script is an amazing example. I am trying to integrate it with Python.

Looking forward to the guidance and comments. Thank you, cheers!

EricClaeys commented 3 years ago

What do you mean by "run it alone"? Normally the "allsky.sh" script calls cature_RPiHQ, passing the necessary arguments. You could do the same thing, but it would be easier to simply run "./allsky.sh".

arifindobson commented 3 years ago

Hi Eric, thank you for answering, I want to be able to manually call capture_RPiHQ and pass the arguments using python, I saw the capture_RPiHQ is based on raspistill to capture image right? or a custom script? If it is raspistill, my plan manually using capture_RPiHQ is unnecessary

EricClaeys commented 3 years ago

If you are using the code that just came out a few days ago, you can set the debug level to 3, then restart AllSky. It will output to /var/log/allsky.log the raspistill commands it is executing. Your Python script could do the same.

If this answers your question please close the issue.

Eric

arifindobson commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much Eric, very helpful :smile: Problem solved :+1: