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laurb9 / PanoController-Firmware

Platform for high-resolution panoramic photography, supporting 3D-printed PanoController board, Gigapan EPIC 100, Nodal Ninja Mecha E1 and other platforms.

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Real Time Clock #47

Closed laurb9 closed 7 years ago

laurb9 commented 8 years ago

Add an RTC. Options are:

a standalone DS3231 (works with any Arduino), or
add a CR16 battery + crystal to the teensy board

Possible uses:

display timestamp on pano info screen, so a screenshot can be used to match against photo sets.
record panos taken in eeprom, and dump them via serial later.

Defragster commented 8 years ago

ESP8266 to your phone would have NTP server access - except when you go out in the wilds without cell service - and turn off the ESP8266 to save battery.

I've put a couple crystals on my Teensy's and even wired one to a CR2032 once.

laurb9 commented 8 years ago

Auto setting time would be a nice feature, maybe not worth adding the power hungry ESP just for it, but the other capabilities are worth exploring.

The date doesn't have to that accurate, it only has to match the camera timestamp. Mulling over a GPS unit. There are a few cheap ones out there, not sure how good.

laurb9 commented 7 years ago

Could add capability to sync time via BLE (after #10 is done)

laurb9 commented 7 years ago

This is less important now that the app keeps all the info.