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COTS balloonsat mission to test the RPi 4 with a battery UPS, a quad camarray, a GPS module, a RockBLOCK module, and a small number of Qwiic sensors
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Record stills and video clips with RPi high-quality camera #81

Open ivogeorg opened 2 years ago

ivogeorg commented 2 years ago

Description

Mounting

image

Enablement

raspi-config -> Interfaces -> Enable legacy camera -> Exit config -> Reboot

ivogeorg commented 2 years ago

Python process vs cron job

Python process cron job
Interprocess communication with FE Independent of FE
Can ensure recording stopped before shutdown May require FE to stop cron jobs
Timing configuration Easy to configure timing
Python code will be complex Python code will be simple

Also, can use python-crontab.