Timelapse and motion with esp32cam (and s3) #21468
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I made some improvements yesterday - putting the images into a folder structure which ensures no folder contains more than 10 files or folders. This has proved valuable as with 1000 images, retrieving images close to the end was taking >5s. Now regardless of where the image is in the sequence, the retrieval time is <500ms from SD. However, on the esp32S3cam board, I've not experienced any hangs yet, and the download is more than twice as quick. (~100ms/image). |
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and now a PR which makes it much more reliable on 'normal' esp32cam, and some updates to the berry code. |
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With the new enhancements, and the small reliability updates in latest dev, I had three devices recording images every 500ms last night. 2 x ai-thinker and 1x S3. An AI -thinker recording larger images recorded ~43000 (I think storing the larger image took > 500ms sometimes), the other two ~65000 images. The timelapse viewer performed fast and well in seeking to the images and replaying them. I won't try to download them, as the download creates a zip in memory in browser... but now to set them up for 1 hour timelapse and simultaneous motion detect (to a different folder) to watch my veggies grow this year :). |
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repo at https://github.com/btsimonh/TasmotaBerryPLay/tree/master/timelapse has been enhanced to make images zip download much more robust (my TAS is >50m from my router, and my laptop is less than stable on the wifi), and also to clarify image zip to .mp4 creation. So far, my garden timelapse has recorded 505 images over ~4 weeks (hourly, excluding 'dark' hours). Example .mp4 - watch TAS fall off in the first day or so, and the artichoke grow on the right: images2024-06-23.mp4 |
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This project is of great interest to. Running it on an ESP32-CAM board, I can build tasmota32-webcam successfully but when I add in the following, per the readme.md: #define USE_WEBCAM_V2 in the user_config_override.h I get an error flagging line 935 of tasmota/tasmota_xdrv_driver/xdrv_50_filesystem.ino. I wasn't sure about the line directly following the "problem should be resolved" comment. Tried building with final line commented out and un-commented. Result was the same either way. Any insight to this error would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
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I just posted the original error before I got it to build per @btsimonh suggestion. Right now, I want to try out the basic functionality of the project so the web server isn't critical. - Thanks |
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@btsimonh I updloaded the built firmware files to the target but nothing seems to be happening. From what i've read ,once running, the inserted SD card will be formatted with directory structure but nothing was changed on the SD card. Even a press of the reset button doesn't flash the onboard LED that would indicate a reset has been performed. Just to confirm, my target board is an esp32-cam. The metal shield covering the SoC device is stamped ESP32S. I believe this is supported. Is there some serial port debugging that I can monitor during the startup? If so, what baud rate? I know my device isn't bricked as I can reflash another project and have it functioning as normal. Here is the flashing of this project on my device, nothing looks suspicious - Thanks `AVAILABLE: cmsis-dap, esp-bridge, esp-prog, espota, esptool, iot-bus-jtag, jlink, minimodule, olimex-arm-usb-ocd, olimex-arm-usb-ocd-h, olimex-arm-usb-tiny-h, olimex-jtag-tiny, tumpa Leaving... |
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You can monitor serial output with the same wiring as when flashing. Bit rate 115200, 8N1 |
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OK, perhaps I wasn't patient enough for the processor speed :-) and I see debug info coming from the serial port. It is working now as the web interface is showing the cam video as expected. Again, thanks for the support! |
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Hi All,
I had time to update my repo about timelapse and motion capture using TAS here:
https://github.com/btsimonh/TasmotaBerryPLay/tree/master/timelapse
If you give it a go, please leave feedback, raise an issue there, or offer PRs....
(this is based on webcamv2 with motion detection, and also uses direct http serving off TAS's SDcard, OR posts images to a node-red http server)
br,
Simon
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