Fast Timelapse without focus

[ConPhoto]

Apols, not a bug, just need some direction :) Using GPhoto2 on RasPi with Canon 200D/700D looking for timelapse without focus at quick enough rate of @3sec - @30sec, would prefer to use crontab as this seems more consistent in results with not missed frames. If i run a python script it seems to miss on occassion, and then if it stops I can lose loads of shots. I need something very solid

1. Capture without focus sudo gphoto2 --set-config eosremoterelease=Immediate --set-config eosremotelease="Release Full" --wait-event-and-download=5s --filename=/home/pi/Desktop/GPhotos/%Y_%m_%d/%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.%C

This works great, I can run another script to grab focus, and then Crontab this line. However I cant get it working faster than @60sec in crontab

I can bash script this and run it every minute in crontab, and thats successful, but requires focus sudo gphoto2 -I 3 -F 20 --capture-image-and-download --filename=/home/pi/Desktop/GPhotos/%Y_%m_%d/%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.%C

I get that this may well be my lack of python skills, or asking too much of the hardwares – but a steer in the right direction would be really really helpful