Time Lapse photography

[BigAloz]

Thanks for this excellent API.

I haven't been able to work out how to set up a record time lapse photographs.

Basically I want to do the following.

1. Connect to goPro via wifi (this is fine)
2. programmatically start recording photos (not video) at a predefined time
   • eventually I will have multiple cameras that I want to synchronize
3. Continue taking images every 5 seconds
4. Manually stop when finished (this part is trivial)

This is for an underwater project where the gopro(s) will be on a rov. So the wifi setup is only possible during initialization and wifi control (and manual control) will be lost once the GoPro is underwater.

Any advice will be much appreciated

Alan Buchanan

[KonradIT]

GoPro cameras have timelapse feature, so you can do something like:

from goprocam import GoProCamera, constants
gopro = GoProCamera.GoPro()

def start():
    gopro.gpControlSet(constants.Multishot.TIMELAPSE_INTERVAL, constants.Multishot.TimeLapseInterval.I5)
    gopro.mode(constants.Mode.MultiShotMode, constants.Mode.SubMode.MultiShot.TimeLapse)
    gopro.shutter(constants.start)

def stop():
    gopro.shutter(constants.stop)

#Run start() to set up the camera to take a picture every 5 seconds
#Run stop() to stop the timelapse once the WiFi is available on the surface

[ashleyg155]

Hi. Is it possible to get the GoPro to have a greater interval of 1 min between photos? The standard max time on the timelapse feature is only 1 min? Could this be set much greater in the region of 10-20mins? I had looked at building an Intervalometer, but that bit advanced for me. For the occasional long timelapse I do I dont want to purchase something like this [BlinkX] (https://cam-do.com/products/blinkx-time-lapse-camera-controller-for-gopro-hero5-6-7-8-cameras) which is $400 :(. Thanks in advance.