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Add configuration / webserver setup so you can browse images #24

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@geerlingguy

As I've now been using this little app on numerous Pis for projects around the house, and I've also seen some of the nifty timelapse work done by Matthias Wandel (see https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/imgcomp), I figured it would be nice to have some way of viewing results (and maybe also starting/stopping the timelapses, and maybe even tweaking configuration) via a web UI.

Right now, the process I have for every timelapse is:

  1. Set up Pi, turn it on.
  2. Go to laptop which can SSH into Pi. Log in, kick off a timelapse.
  3. Open up SFTP app, view some photos from the series.
  4. Adjust things if need be, then restart timelapse.
  5. Back in SFTP app, check again.
  6. [Rinse and repeat until all settings are correct]
  7. Start off timelapse, finally.

And it can be even more frustrating if I have to adjust the Pi's focus, especially if my laptop's upstairs and my rig is downstairs or outside. It takes minutes to get it set up.

It would be nice if, at a minimum, I had a web UI that let me browse the current timelapse folders (e.g. via Apache, just listing the directory contents and allowing pictures to be viewed).

And then, it would also be nice to allow starting/stopping timelapse series.

And finally, allowing configuration to be set, then when it is started/stopped/saved, it would write a new config.yml file with the updated settings.

Maybe Python, PHP, or Node.js to keep things simple? Or even a Go app, for some learning and fun, and easier deployment?

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