Running remove bad images upon capture?

[maphilli14]

My current workflow is working well. I am able to gen a keogram at end of night. For startrails and timelapse I yank the files in the morning to a Win10 and process via allsky running in WSL. This copy, removebadimages, then end of night is a bit more time consuming than I'd like, has the feature to remove bad images upon capture been implemented yet?

[EricClaeys]

@maphilli14 I just merged the code 10 seconds ago. Quite a few files have changed so you're probably best off doing a complete re-install of allsky. I've been using the code for several weeks and the per-image removeBadImages.sh works well - in fact, it found a few images last night.

[maphilli14]

I tried it and it didn't work for me, the images got suck in the tmp directory. I did notice that SHUTTING my custom animation script that runs in the background resulted in no bad images this am!

The idea is to take a few photos and ffmpeg them into a gif so I can see the past few minutes of clouds moving! It's more intense than I thought?!

#!/usr/bin/python3

import os, shutil, sys, subprocess,datetime,time

#user vars
qty=25
DIR='/home/pi/allsky/'
nDIR='/home/pi/allsky/'

#clean up tempanim
try:
        shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP'))
        os.mkdir(os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP'))
except:
        pass


def COPY():
        try:
                if len(os.listdir(os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP'))) > qty:
                        print('cleaning up olds')
                        LIST= sorted(os.listdir(os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP')))
                        for position, item in enumerate(LIST):
                                if item == 'CURRENTANI.gif':
                                        LIST.pop(position)
                        os.remove(os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP',LIST[0]))
                else:
                        print('taking new photos')
                        pass
        except:
                print('PROBLEM')
                e = sys.exc_info()
                print(e)
                print
                pass
        try:


                print('Copying latest ')
                TIME=str(datetime.datetime.now().time())[0:8].replace(':','')
                shutil.copy(os.path.join(nDIR+'image.jpg'),os.path.join(DIR,'TEMP','image-'+TIME+'.jpg'))
                print
                print('File '+TIME+' copied')
                print
        except:
                print('Files NOT copied')
                e = sys.exc_info()
                print(e)
                print
                pass

def GIFMAKER():
        try:
                subprocess.Popen(['/Scripts/makegifdaynight.sh'])
                e = sys.exc_info()
                print(e)
        except:
                print('couldn\'t make new gif')
                e = sys.exc_info()
                print(e)
                pass

while True:
        COPY()
        time.sleep(30)
        GIFMAKER()

[EricClaeys]

@maphilli14 Are you using the latest code, especially the latest saveImage.sh? It was updated recently to fix the issue of leaving files in allsky/tmp.

Interesting idea to show a video of the recent sky. Do you update it every image?

[maphilli14]

Keeps a sorted list of the X (25 in my case) images and pops the oldest one out. Makes a GIF every X seconds and takes new photos every Y seconds....

Here's and older example - https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/allsky/anim.html

[EricClaeys]

@maphilli14 cool. And saveImage.sh?

[maphilli14]

Really just taking the existing live image that is already saved and issue a python copy and use the current timesamp to sort the image into an time ordered list...

[EricClaeys]

@maphilli14 Are you using the latest saveImage.sh? It fixed the issue with images getting stuck in allsky/tmp.