Add example crontab entries to start and stop timelapses at certain times of day

[geerlingguy]

For example:

# Start timelapse at 07:30 CST (12:30 UTC)
30 12 * * * systemctl start timelapse

# End timelapse at 22:00 CST (03:00 UTC)
00 3 * * * systemctl stop timelapse

I'm also looking into the best way to, after the timelapse completes, automatically upload the series somewhere for faster processing. Might just set up an FTP server and have an FTP command in another crontab entry.

[geerlingguy]

Probably use one of the following for the uploading:

• https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader
• https://rclone.org/dropbox/

Note security caveats of storing API keys for Dropbox (or passwords, ick!) on the Pi...

[geerlingguy]

For file copying, might be easier to just use macOS's built-in 'Remote Login' (SSH), which allows me to use rsync to do the copy, like:

rsync -avz /home/pi/pi-timelapse/series-2019-04-22_12-30-04/ myaccount@mac-ip-address:/Users/myaccount/Downloads/timelapse/series-2019-04-22_12-30-04/

Of course I would need to do something to get the name of the most recent folder first... and also add something like delete the folder after rsync is successful.

[geerlingguy]

What I'm using now:

rsync -qaP --include-from=rsync-includes --exclude='*' /home/pi/pi-timelapse/ geerlingguy@my-mac-here:/Volumes/LargeVolumeHere/timelapse-directory

And that rsync-includes file just contains:

series**