Daytime capture with blackout time for direct sunlight

[Bi7]

Is there a way to implement the ability to keep daylight capture yet "suspend" it for a period of time during the day? This would allow seeing the sky in the morning and afternoon yet be kinder to the camera sensor during direct sunlight hours of the day.

It would be great to avoid direct exposure to the high noon sun, really from 9 or 10am to 4pm in the summer time.

Thanks for considering this

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[EricClaeys]

@Bi7 Unless your camera has a shutter, which most don't, it's going to be exposed to the Sun even if the software isn't running.

If your camera DOES have a shutter, you can adjust the Angle to change the daytime to be the time you don't want pictures, then turn off daytime capture. See the Wiki page on angle, latitude, and longitude for more info.

[Bi7]

Right, I didn’t think about that. I am using a PiHQ so will just turn on daytime capture.

Thank you for this project

[Stephen2615]

The web cameras that the FAA use in Alaska seem to have the sun covered by a black disk. I assume that is done in software. Based on a person's location, perhaps software could determine the location of the sun in the sky and put a black disk over it. The site is https://weathercams.faa.gov/ and you would need to find a place where the sun is in the view. It's a bit hard now with a lot of sunlight this time of the year.

[Stephen2615]

So I just checked some places on the website and the dark disk over the sun has disappeared. Bummer.