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Raspberry (Pi) - (Ti)melapse, (Mo)tion, (Lo)wlight - Program Features

More Details at Github Repo and YouTube Videos

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• How To Install or Upgrade
• How to Run pi-timolo from a drive mnt
• How To Customize Configuration Settings
• How to Take Panoramic Images
• How to Run user_motion_code.py When Motion Tracking Triggered
• How to Align Camera for Motion Tracking Area
• How to Use Schedule StartAt Settings
• Basic Troubleshooting
• How to Tune config.py Settings
• How To Run menubox.sh Admin Menu
• How To View Files via Webserver
• How To Make a Timelapse Video
• How To Join or Convert h264 Videos to MP4
• How To Run pi-timolo on Boot
• How to Setup & Run shutdown.py
• How to Setup Rclone Media Sync
• How To use watch-app.sh
• How to Use Plugins
• How To Mount USB External Storage Device
• How To Mount a Network Share
• How to Setup Automatic Sub Folder Creation
• How to Manage Free Disk Space
• Utilities Summary
• GitHub Repo

Easy Install Instructions

Step 1 Highlight curl command in code box below using mouse left button. Right click mouse in highlighted area and Copy.
Step 2 On RPI putty SSH or terminal session right click, select paste then Enter to download and run script.

curl -L https://raw.github.com/pageauc/pi-timolo/master/source/pi-timolo-install.sh | bash

The command should download and execute the github install.sh script for pi-timolo.
IMPORTANT The pi-timolo-install.sh does a Raspbian apt-get update and upgrade. if you have not recently done this, it could take a while ......

Manual Install

cd ~
wget https://raw.github.com/pageauc/pi-timolo/master/source/pi-timolo-install.sh
chmod +x pi-timolo-install.sh
./pi-timolo-install.sh

Test Run pi-timolo

cd ~/pi-timolo
./pi-timolo.py

Verify motion (per console verbose log entries) then ctrl-c to exit pi-timolo.py Edit config.py and .conf files using menubox.sh or nano editor to change settings per comments. You may want to make a backup of the original file.

./menubox.sh
nano config.py

ctrl-x y to Save configuration changes then test the changes.

./pi-timolo.py 

See sidebar or menu links above for further setup and configuration details.

Good Luck Claude Pageau